With the transition to online classes and working remotely we caught up with UBC Solar, a student run design team at UBC, to ask them how they shifted their operations to work remotely and their plans for the upcoming year. We sat down with Alex Ezzat the Co-Captain of UBC Solar and a fifth-year student studying Engineering Physics to ask him how his team is continuing to make progress and some of the challenges they faced with the transition to the online environment.
UBC ECE’s 2020 spring cohort’s perseverance and persistence has paid off, and they’ve seen their Capstone projects to completion. Each team overcame many challenges to provide timely deliverables spanning a wide array of ECE-related subjects. Over 230 students formed 48 teams that leveraged four years worth of learning in order to design solutions to challenges proposed by industry and community partners.
Graduation for the Class of 2020 will be held on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. There will be one ceremony for students graduating from UBC Vancouver and one ceremony for students graduating from UBC Okanagan. The virtual ceremony will include many elements of a traditional ceremony and some unique ones as well. More details of the virtual ceremony will be shared online in the coming weeks. Please visit graduation.ubc.ca for more information.
On April 7th, 2017, senior ECE students congregated on the first two floors of the Fred Kaiser Building to present the capstone projects that they had been working on all year. Partners from many different facets of industry were represented, from EPSON Electronics to Science World to UBC's innovative Laptop Orchestra.
Tony Tang is a third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student at UBC. In this video, submitted as part of the NSERC Video Competition, he spotlights current departmental research on image guidance.
UBC students share their public education campaign with international scientists and educators
The Mitacs Globalink program brings in top undergraduate students from around the world to UBC and Canada. This year, it brought 33 students to UBC from India, China, Brazil and Mexico. The hope is that they will choose to pursue graduate studies here after their undergraduate degree is complete.
EECE 375/474: Computer-Based Instrumental Design Laboratory focuses on designing complex engineering projects within a team environment. In addition to implementing advanced technical principles into projects, students also learned about project management and team communication. Instructed by Dr Paul Lusina, this year's theme is on Robotic Search and Rescue. Students had to build an autonomous vehicle which can carry out a simulated search and rescue operation. Tasks included calculating an optimal path, collecting the victim and producing a mission report at the end.
Al-Shahna Jamal is a third year electrical and computer engineering student at the University of Toronto. Dr. Steven Wilton is supervising her summer research internship.
What project are you working on this summer?
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. Mireille Ghoussoub is going into her fourth year in Electrical Option of Engineering Physics. She is working closely with Dr. Peyman Servati’s research group, especially Dr. Bobak Gholamkhass and PhD student Saeedeh Ebrahimi Takalloo this summer.
What research project are you working on?