Solutions for people
People are at the centre of everything we do. As trusted professionals: engineers, nurses, planners and architects, we provide the foundation for a safe, secure, healthy, high-quality life.
As researchers and innovators, we are creating highly impactful solutions that aim to radically transform health and wellness, and shape a society and economy where people are more connected, empowered and effective.
Our role is to train professionals and provide the necessary seeds so our graduates develop ethical and responsible technology solutions to meet the challenges of society.
Faculty Member, School of Engineering, Okanagan
Amplify the synergies across our disciplines
- Strategic joint hires in emerging areas
- Solutions brought to life through diverse collaborative thinking
- Using our campus as living laboratory
- Focused planetary health research institute
Strategic joint hires in emerging areas
Solutions brought to life through diverse collaborative thinking
Using our campus as living laboratory
Focused planetary health research institute
Create time and space for innovation
- Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity
Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity
Nurture the entrepreneurial mindset and venture creation to support innovative and transformational solutions
- Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines
- Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty
- Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence
- Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes
- Clean energy solutions and ventures
Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines
Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty
Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence
Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes
Clean energy solutions and ventures
Advance disciplinary knowledge and the translation of research and innovation for societal impact
- Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient
- High impact research identified through community engagement
- Leaders in built environment adaptation
Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient
High impact research identified through community engagement
Leaders in built environment adaptation
Tackle complex local and global challenges with an interdisciplinary and systems-based approach
- Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs
- Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections
- Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems
- Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops
Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs
Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections
Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems
Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops
Collaborate with purpose in strategic, long-term partnerships
- Strengthened internal & external partnerships via shared projects
- Projects which bring together all partners with ‘pieces of the puzzle’
- Support model for developing and sustaining long-term partnerships
- Partnerships to connect environmental conditions and health outcomes
Strengthened internal & external partnerships via shared projects
Projects which bring together all partners with ‘pieces of the puzzle’
Support model for developing and sustaining long-term partnerships
Partnerships to connect environmental conditions and health outcomes
Connections + context
We are facing increasingly complex challenges (13) that rely on integrated disciplines (2) and strategic partnerships (14) to be able to effectively address them. Solutions are often found at the intersection of disciplines; requiring an integration of technologies and policy. An example of this is the School of Biomedical Engineering, a new interdisciplinary collaboration between the Faculties of Applied Science and Medicine who partner with industry, health authorities, research centres and stakeholder groups. It aims to provide a clear pathway for innovative health solutions, from the discovery of new biomedical technologies to their development and application to benefit human health.
We advance an innovative spirit (7) in everything we do, including our faculty, buildings and spaces, and processes and incentives. We inspire entrepreneurial thinking (11) to guide societal-driven impactful research (12) into successful solutions. In this way, laboratory discoveries and innovations will benefit people and promote economic prosperity and high-quality job creation.
Applying the Plan
Breakthrough technology opens doors to $100 ultrasound machine
Researchers Carlos D. Gerardo, Edmond Cretu and Robert Rohling developed an ultrasound transducer that could lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.
Could a DIY ultrasound be in your future?
Applying the Plan
From mouthguards to machine learning: Studying the mechanism of traumatic brain injuries
Mechanical Engineering professor, Lyndia Wu, develop an instrumented mouth guard to measure the motion of the head during sports impacts. The device uses sensing, modeling and machine learning tools to study the mechanism of traumatic brain injury and the biomechanics of the human body.
Sensing in Biomechanical Processes Lab
Applying the Plan
Safer by design
UBC Okanagan School of Engineering students and professor Ray Taheri worked together in response to the urgent need to reduce accidental deaths related to full-sized clothing donation bins. They worked together to design and prototype innovative solutions to improve safety; some students even went so far as to completely reimagine business models which would eliminate the risk.
Clothing bins made safer
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