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Third Quadrant Design, a multidisciplinary student design team, has placed first in its division at the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Design Challenge for the second year in a row.  

Since 2017, UBC Engineering has celebrated its students’ creativity — and often ingenuity — at an annual event called Design + Innovation Day. The event showcases a dizzying array of research and technology produced by student teams during the previous academic year. Typically presented in the form of posters, design models and working prototypes, the projects…

While the numbers of women enrolled in postsecondary engineering programs and working as professional engineers have increased over the past few decades, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in these areas.

Rashmi Prakash, a master’s student in UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering, has placed first in the graduate track of the BMO Financial Group Apex Business Plan Competition.

UBC Supermileage — a group of 80 engineering students with a passion for designing and building energy-efficient vehicles — placed second in their category in the Americas arm of this year’s Shell Eco-marathon, one of the world’s leading energy efficiency competitions for students.

A team of UBC students was awarded first place in the entrepreneurship category of the competition portion of this year’s Pacific Venture Capital Conference and Competition, the largest student-run event of its kind in North America. The win came with a $5500 cash prize and four thousand dollars’ worth of in-kind legal services from McMillan…