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Eng Phys Alumnus and team place 2nd in Innovative Design competition

Eng Phys Alumnus and team place 2nd in Innovative Design competition

Engineers in Science program students create a device to assist quadriplegic athletes in Innovative Design for Accessibility challenge, placing second in the competition.  The UBC team:  Carly Jones (second from left) – 2017 graduate of Engineering Physics, Jeanie Malone, Taylor Molde, and Avineet Randhawa are Master’s students in the School of Biomedical Engineering. UBC Faculty […]

MINT places 2nd in both categories at NeurotechX 2018 competition

MINT places 2nd in both categories at NeurotechX 2018 competition

Congratulations Engineering Physics students Giulio Sucar and Jessica Ma for a second place finish in both categories – the open challenge and the fixed challenge – of the NeurotechX 2018 competition! The team made an app that measures ADD biomarkers, aiming for an objective ADD / ADHD diagnostic, and built a full EEG acquisition system, […]

Best Design at HackPrinceton

Congratulations to Tiffany Quon, Owen Bulka, Sydney Seraphim and Cindy Zhang for first place in the Best Design category at HackPrinceton! “As a team of four Engineering Physics students, we attended HackPrinceton, an annual software and hardware design competition hosted by Princeton University. The hackathon took place over a brief 36 hour period during which […]

Congratulations Jenny Yang! 3rd place in Best Poster Contribution, ICPS 2017, Turin, Italy

Congratulations Jenny Yang! 3rd place in Best Poster Contribution, ICPS 2017, Turin, Italy

Well done Jenny Yang for an excellent presentation to the International Conference of Physics Students August 7 – 14, 2017, in Turin, Italy on her research project at the Genome Sciences Centre: Identifying Functional Clusters of Genes from Energy Landscapes in Autoencoders for Personalized Therapy in Medicine (Jenny Yang, Jasleen Grewal, Steven Jones).  Abstract: “In […]