Engineering Physics Project Fair 2025: plasma themed
This year’s Project Fair was a high energy event. It was exciting. And when atoms are excited they become plasma. From left to right: rocket ion (plasma) thruster, plasma centrifuge, inductively coupled plasma fusion reactor. Though there were many more projects to see. Here is for example how the inductively coupled plasma fusion reactor works: […]
Bernhard Zender wins President’s Service Award for Excellence
We are very excited that our very own Bernhard Zender has been recognized with a President’s Service Award for Excellence for 2020. This award is given to a handful of UBC staff every year who, to name just a few of the criteria, excel in their area of work, go above and beyond their job […]
Annual ENPH 253 Robot Competition was held August 6th
Congratulations to the winners of the ENPH 253 Robot Competition 2020: Lewis Arnold, Mykai Bakker-Westeinde, Nick Bratvold and Holden Jones! Well done! Below, Nick Bratvold explains how the competition worked. Nick: “Our competition was run similar to the World Cup. There was a round-robin stage consisting of 16 teams of 4, split into 4 pools. […]
Esther Lin, Parmis Mohaghegh and Tiffany Quon each awarded scholarships of $10,000 for Women in Technology
Three $10,000 scholarships out of a total of ten for all of B.C. go to Engineering Physics students! The I.K. Barber Women in Technology scholarships are awarded to recognize the valuable contributions made by women. Rajiv K. Gandhi, chair of the Irving K Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society: “This scholarship is a good first step […]
Amber Donnelly selected as a participant at Canadian Conference on Diversity in Engineering
The Conference on Diversity in Engineering (CDE), an annual 3-day conference sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES), aims to develop knowledge surrounding the variety of individuals, cultures and perspectives found within engineering communities. This annual conference has been held since 2015 at universities across Ontario and Quebec. This year’s host was The […]
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2019 Engineering Physics Robot Competition!
L – R: Josh White, Kritika Joshi, Josh Zindler, and Ben Huckell
18th Annual Alumni Social Night
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Engineering Student Centre, 2335 Engineering Road, Vancouver. Dress is business casual. RSVP here.
Engineering Physics Project Fair 2019
Rahat Dhande lifting weights while team mate Andrew Dworschak checks the motions to count type and number of exercises in fitness studios.
Photos by Clare Kiernan, UBC Faculty of Applied Science.
Project Lab celebrates 40th Anniversary
On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Eng Phys Project Lab, and the reunion of the Eng Phys class of ’78, we are proud to announce the creation of the Boye Ahlborn Endowment for the Engineering Physics Project Laboratory, seeded and created by a generous initial donation from Scott Phillips (ENPH’89), Founder and […]