Admiral Trackbar wins 2018 Engineering Physics Robot Competition
Congratulations to all the competitors for an amazing event. Well done! Team Admiral Trackbar: “We got a taste of how much work it takes to do a seemingly straightforward task. We realized the importance of defining the scope of the problem you want to solve, and setting realistic goals. If you keep these in mind […]
UBC Rocket blasts into 1st place in 10K COTS category at Spaceport America Cup
Congratulations Engineering Physics students Simon Bambey (Team Captain), Jordan Jones (Payload Team Lead), Arthur Chen, Maryam Baksh, Nishad Jamaldeen (Payload Team Members), Yuqing Du, and Carly Jones (Avionics Team Members) for the outstanding performance of Cypress at the Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico! Pictured are Body Inspection Team L – R: Eric Bast, Nick […]
Info Session for high school students – Sunday, January 20, 2019
UBC Engineering Physics invites talented and motivated high school students and their parents to an annual free orientation event to visit our research and teaching facilities, meet students and faculty, and discover the unique breadth and opportunities provided by our program. Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. to be held in the Forestry Sciences […]
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 […]
Pomme de Terror wins 2017 ENPH 253 Robot Competition
Congratulations Tomotaka Yoshizaki, Alan Tong, Paul Liu and Joel Ahn!
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
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