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 […]
MDDC 2017: Awards for Excellence finalists
L to R: Shahriar Noroozi Zadeh, Amir Refaee, Alex Kyriazis and William Choi for “Automated Pathology, Characterizing Traumatic Brain Injury” – MDDC Award for Excellence finalists. Congratulations to the two Engineering Physics student teams competing in the Medical Device Development Center (MDDC) Awards, receiving the Award for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Student Design and Innovation […]
Kevin Multani receives funding for Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute workshop
May 14 – 19, 2017 “The workshop is an introduction to applied mathematical and statistical research in the area of Astronomy and Optimization. Kevin is currently enrolled in STAT 450 and will be working as an undergraduate summer research assistant (USRA) this summer with Statistics Assistant Professor Gaby Cohen-Freue. He is a 5th Year Engineering […]
Engineering Physics student Jenny Yang on machine learning in Neuropsychology
A UBC Innovation Snapshot
Congratulations Alex Toews and his New Venture Design team for 1st place at UBC’s Life Sciences Start-Up Competition!
Curios Labs wins first place with their wearable device, CheckPoint, which replaces a pain journal for chronic pain suffers. One click during an episode helps track and analyze pain symptoms for later reporting to their physician, easing the need for remembering and manually recording their pain experiences.
2nd Place at Western Engineering Competition and the Canadian Engineering Competition
Congratulations Engineering Physics students Jenny Yang (2nd from Left) and Andrew Dworschak (R), and Mechanical Engineering students and Connor McFadyen and Allan Ng on their 2nd place finish at the Western Engineering Competition in Banff and second place in the Canadian Engineering Competition 2017! In the Western competition, teams of 4 had 8 hours to […]
2018 Western Engineering Competition
Left to Right: Anthony Ydenberg (WEC2018 Chair), Navjashan Singh, Jenny Yang, Spencer Pollock (Director of Programming) Congratulations Jenny Yang and Navjashan Singh! “The Western Engineering Competition (WEC) is Canada’s largest undergraduate engineering competition and is an annual, three-day event which involves 12 – 14 universities from across western Canada. It was founded in 1985 with […]
MDDC Innovation Awards to 5th year FIZZers
Congratulations Abenezer Teklemariam, Carly Jones, Alejandro Baltazar, and Jae il (Chris) Lee, recipients of the MDDC Innovation Awards, which recognizes “Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Student Design and Innovation.” Their entry KneeSense began as a project in ENPH 479. KneeSense helps patients who have undergone knee replacement surgeries. It will be developed for clinical trials. Chris Lee: […]
Open House for 1st year Science and Engineering on November 24 in CHEM D200
An information session will be held for 1st year students in Science and APSC on Thursday, November 24 at 12:30 in CHEM D200. Students in the program and the program director, Andre Marziali, will be answering your questions and providing information about the Engineering Physics Program. Tours of the facilities will follow.
1st place finish at Western Engineering Competition
Congratulations to UBC engineering students Jenny Yang and Andrew Dworschak, Engineering Physics, and Connor McFadyen and Allan Ng, Mechanical Engineering, for a first place finish in the Junior Design component of the UBC Engineering Competition, held October 2015! The challenge for Junior Design was to build a launcher that could launch medical supplies to the […]