Student Projects 2010-11
December 6th Memorial
The December 6th Memorial is a memorial to remember the fourteen engineering women that were massacred at L’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. It was held in front of the Frank Forward building and a candle light vigil was held.
ESTC Op Funds & Safety Initiative
The Engineering Student Team Council serves as a liaison between engineering student teams, faculty, and industry professionals. Our mission is to make UBC the best university in the world for engineering student teams. With the erection of the Engineering Design Center, the ESTC has begun a Safety Initiative. This initiative is aimed at developing an environment of safety, which hopefully allows the teams to generate their own safety regulations that optimizes learning opportunities while maintaining maximum safety.
UBC Women in Engineering
Our goal is to provide a safe and inclusive environment for all females students in the Faculty of Applied Science. We strive to help women build networking skills and grow academically, professionally, personally and as leaders. Through workshops, seminars, brown bag lunches, and outreach events,we aim to help women better network in the industry while creating sustainable lifelong relationships.
MEMS Mirror Scanner
An entry in the iCAN ’11 MEMS Design Competition. The Goal of the project was to used a MEMS scanning mirror to identify words on a white page, which can later be used for scanning appllications.
International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition 2011 – UBC Thunderbird Robotics
IARRC is an effort to promote research in autonomous mobile robotics technology in a structure that is challenging and exciting, for both the competitors and spectators.
2011 marked the first year that this annual event was held on Canada’s West coast; and UBC Thunderbird Robotics was proud to be hosting this competition: IARRC2011.
The competition provides students with real-world, hands-on engineering design challenges, including components of mechanical, computer, control software, and system integration. Students work together to design and build robotic vehicles that can navigate twisting, obstacle-filled courses without any human guidance or control.
PROJ 4 – UBC Thunderbird Toastmasters (formerly the UBC IEEE Toastmasters)
The UBC Thunderbird Toastmasters provides a service for helping UBC Applied Science students develop their public speaking and leadership skills in a supportive, non-judgmental environment. Membership is open to the public but the earlier day, time, duration and focus of the meeting caters to engineering students.
Junior Fellowship
Engineers Without Borders is committed to ending extreme poverty. To achieve this goal, the UBC chapter of Engineers Without Borders sends two student members overseas each summer to work as Junior Fellows. Junior Fellows work as volunteers to build capacity in local organizations (including non-governmental and governmental organizations). Work is focused on three main sectors: water and sanitation, agriculture and food production, and rural infrastructure. Junior Fellows have the opportunity to work in Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia, and Ghana during their placement overseas.
2011 SME Meeting and Exhibit UBC Booth
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) is the premier international society of professionals in the mineral industry with over 12,000 members in 100 countries worldwide. The SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit took place February 27, 2011 to March 2, 2011 in Denver, Colorado and was attended by UBC Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering students to host a booth. At the booth the students promoted UBC Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs, the UBC Engineering Co-op program, and research opportunities to other university students and employers.
The 2010 UBC Engineering Competition
UBCEC is designed with the purpose of selecting the competitors who will represent UBC on a regional level at the 2011 Western Engineering Competition. UBCEC 2010 featured 6 competitions, each unique and each designed to challenge UBC Engineering students of a variety of years and disciplines to apply skills outside of the normal expectations of the classroom.
Technology and Science Seminar Series
The goal of this project is to provide a series of seminars presenting topics in emerging research and technology for students in all disciplines of engineering. The speakers are chosen both from research laboratories around UBC and from high-technology companies in the lower mainland. It is hoped that these seminars will serve to inform and hopefully arouse interest in areas of research and development previously unknown to students.
PROJ 5 – Mining Professional Development
The funds obtained from PAF were administered by 2 undergraduate mining students who were elected by the student body as the department’s ‘Professional Development Representatives’. The funds were used in numerous ways to help promote the mining industry, and increase the awareness and employability of the undergraduate mining students.
