Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty of Applied Science News

• The new School of Biomedical Engineering July 11, 2017
  The Faculties of Applied Science and Medicine have announced the joint establishment of the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UBC, effective July 1, 2017.
• UBC Rocket team wins major category at world’s largest rocket engineering competition July 6, 2017
    The UBC Rocket team, formed last September, won first place in its category at the 2017 Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest rocket engineering competition. Held in Las Cruces, New Mexico from June 20 to 24, the event brought together more than 90 college and university teams from nearly a dozen countries in six project […]
• APSC student receives scholarship from Zayo Group and Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation July 4, 2017
   
• APSC grad honoured by Environmental Managers Association of BC June 28, 2017
    A UBC Engineering graduate has received the Emerging Environmental Professional Award from the Environmental Managers Association of BC. Alice Kruchten, who accepted the award at a gala at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club earlier this month, was recognized for her “professional achievement, innovation, experience and leadership, along with community involvement.”
• Four UBC profs inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering June 26, 2017
    Four UBC professors — Perry Adebar, PEng (Civil Engineering), Choon (Jim) Lim, PEng (Chemical and Biological Engineering), James Olson, PEng (Mechanical Engineering) and Marc Parlange, PEng (Civil Engineering) — have been inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of their "distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession."