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Mech Department Tours?2017/18 dates now posted!Olson-talking
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/13 2:52)
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Interested in seeing what goes on in our labs and student spaces? The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers public tours throughout the year. Our student-led tours typically take 1.5 hours, and include a tour around our facilities. We typically stop at two labs and two student teams, where you will learn a bit about the research done in Mechanical Engineering and some of the great design opportunities that our students have. At the end of the tour there is an optional half-hour advising session where we will have program advisers to answer any questions you may have about the department or UBC Engineering.
Check out this year’s tour dates here.
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Elizabeth Croft Discusses the Future of Robotics in CBC InterviewDSC_3420
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/12 4:57)
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Elizabeth Croft and student making adjustments to “Charlie”.
Following the release of the new Blade Runner movie, MECH professor and Director of the the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (CARIS), Elizabeth Croft gave a short interview with CBC on the future of robotics. In her interview, Croft discusses how to maintain a friendly relationship between robots and humans, especially amid worries that automation means a decline in “human” jobs. The key, she says, is not to lament the loss of low-wage jobs, but embrace how this shift will help to maintain an overall better standard of living and create more “good quality, complex and interesting jobs.” This in turn, will lead to increased Canadian productivity as labour is focused in more complex, higher-value jobs.
The article also explores Canada’s unique stance in the worldwide discussion on roboethics and the current work of Canadian companies that specialize in ...
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APSC 366?The Art of the Possible: Engineering for Non-Engineersapsc 366 images horizontal
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/6 3:12)
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Interested in the art of engineering but don?t have the tech background? Need to fulfill a science requirement but want something that still allows you to think through social issues? APSC 366 was designed for you.
Join four Engineering faculty members from a range of disciplines in exploring engineering practice, technologies, and products, and their connections to social, legal, and environmental realms. Learn the answers to questions like: How can we modify carbon to reduce climate change? Why do cell phones explode? What happens if your hip replacement gets recalled? How much energy is in a litre of gasoline, and what does it mean for the range of your car?
Open to upper year students in Arts, Education, and the Sauder School of Business, this course is structured as four modules, each focused on a particular technology: carbon capture, smartphones, hip replacement, and engines . Assessment will consist of a test and assignment for each module, plus a final project (no ...
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Upcoming Lecture: Sheila Tobias,?Finding the Sweet Spot Between Engineering Faculty?s Willingness to
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/6 2:48)
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Colloquium Series is pleased to present Sheila Tobias, author of Overcoming Math Anxiety and They?re Not Dumb, They?re Different . Please join us in KAIS 2020 on Thursday, October 12 from 12:00-1:00 pm, for her lecture on exposing non-engineering majors to ?what engineers do and how they think about what they do.?
Faculty from all departments are encouraged to attend.
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MECH Alumni Bring Sustainable Carsharing Alternatives to UBCD80_1417
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/27 6:41)
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Veemos are coming to UBC! An enclosed, electric-assisted, human-powered bicycle that aims to replace automobiles on campus, Veemos are an innovative way to travel sustainably. VeloMetro is launching a Veemo pilot fleet on the UBC campus in fall of 2017.
Mechanical Engineering is proud to recognize two of VeloMetro?s founders as graduates.
Kody Baker, CEO and co-founder, completed his BASc in Mechanical Engineering in 2001. Kody is an experienced technology manager and entrepreneur with a strong vision for technology trends. With a broad range of deep experience in engineering, project management, and manufacturing within several cleantech and high-tech companies, he has brought products to market such as electric vehicles, biomass energy systems, and process control systems. Kody is also a certified professional engineer.
Jonathan Faille, CTO and co-founder received his MENG in Mechanical Engineering in 2012. His degree centered on mechatronics; the marriage of mechanical ...
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Take TDPS?s Social Media Survey and Enter to Win a $25 Amazon Giftcard
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/23 8:35)
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TDPS wants to hear your thoughts about social media. Take our Social Media Survey and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card! This survey is designed to help us expand the reach of our social media accounts and make sure we’re engaging in ways that you would like to see. By taking it, you’ll help us better showcase the amazing work of our department, students, alumni, and faculty.
Click the link below to take the survey and be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card:
CLICK TO TAKE THE TDPS SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY
But wait, there are two more ways to win!
Visit TDPS’s new Instagram account and like this post PLUS follow our Instagram page (must do both!)
Visit TDPS’s Facebook page and look for the post about the social media (photo of a parachuter) PLUS like our Facebook page (must do both!)
Rules:
All participants who complete the survey or like us on Facebook/Instagram by noon on September 29 will be entered to win. The winner of ...
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Student Group Funding Applications Now Open!
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/21 8:27)
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The Mechanical Engineering Department is now accepting student group funding applications. To download the application package, click here . The application deadline is October 10th at 11:59pm.
Please note that groups/teams must submit both an electronic and a hard copy to the MECH Student Services Office (CEME 2205). Late applications will not be accepted; however, hard copies will be accepted after the deadline so long as the electronic copies are sent to students@mech.ubc.ca on time.
To submit an application or if you have any questions, contact MECH Student Services at students@mech.ubc.ca .
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Glenn Jolly receives 2017 President?s Staff AwardJolly headshot
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/12 7:54)
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We are excited to announce that Glenn Jolly, Technician and Electronics Shop Supervisor, has been named a 2017 recipient of the President’s Staff Award!
This award recognizes the personal achievements and contributions that our staff make to UBC, and to the vision and goals of the university.
Glenn?s practical electronic and technical knowledge, and his every-day mentorship and advice to colleagues, undergraduate and graduate students alike, has had a transformative influence on the department.
Glenn is the unsung hero behind many undergraduate laboratories, graduate research projects, and in the delivery of outstanding education programs. His genuine passion for his work has created an outstanding learning experience of countless undergraduate student and graduate students in Mechanical Engineering.
Glenn regularly contributes to technical content in undergraduate curriculum and has had a hand in instrumentation aspects of most of the custom-built teaching lab apparatu ...
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On TDPS?S 2017-18 Playhouse + Studio Productions
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/7 2:56)
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Peter Glazer + Philip Kan Gotanda, TDPS Production Committee Co-Chairs
TDPS?s 2017-2018 season celebrates provocative theatricality, rich language, and unconventional storytelling. The Playhouse and Studio productions this year are works inspired by dreams, myths, and the elusive natures of love and humanity. Works that approach the theatrical idiom with energy and innovation. Works that open themselves to stylistic innovation, humor, and flights of fancy. Works that allow for a breadth of diversity and inclusion in casting. Works that will provide an expansive palette for our actors, designers, and technicians. These are works with big visions and big ideas.
In October, you will see Metamorphoses , by renowned playwright-director auteur Mary Zimmerman. This adaptation of Ovid?s classic myths, directed by TDPS?s own Christopher Herold (who has been interested in directing this piece for years), is an ensemble piece that features a large cast. The show? ...
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UC BERKELEY BRINGS OVID?S MYTHS TO MAGICAL LIFE IN MARY ZIMMERMAN?S?METAMORPHOSES?
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/1 5:52)
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Berkeley, CA – October 2017 – UC Berkeley?s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) opens its 2017-18 season with Mary Zimmerman?s Metamorphoses , a visually stunning rendering of Ovid?s mythical tales. Directed by TDPS lecturer and alumnus Christopher Herold, this poetic, modernized adaptation runs October 13-22 at Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley Campus. Tickets are $13 to $20 and can be purchased online through the TDPS box office ( tdps.berkeley.edu/events/metamorphoses/ ) or at the door.
In Mary Zimmerman?s Tony Award nominated play, Metamorphoses , the classical tales of Ovid come to magical life in all their playful, passionate, savage, elemental glory . In a visually fantastic world ?set in and around a pool of water? the human and the divine collide, and such familiar figures as Poseidon, King Midas and Eurydice share universal stories of love, hope, death, betrayal and transformation. Beneath clouds and ...
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