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Savvas Hatzikiriakos
Photo credit: Martin Dee.
Engineering

a competitive edge

Engineering Prof. Savvas Hatzikiriakos leads a team that has copied nature to create a super-low friction surface on metals and polymers. [Read more...]

José Martí
Photo credit: Martin Dee.
Preparing for

the unexpected

Electrical Engineering professor José Martí leads a team that has created a system that models essential services. [Read more...]

Mercedes Duifhuis & Sean Heisler
Photo credit: Martin Dee.
Building with

Gingerbread

Integrated Engineering students Mercedes Duifhuis and Sean Heisler subject gingerbread to cantilever stress test [Read more...]

Traffic Light
Photo courtesy of Eric Lagally.
Building the E.coli

'traffic light'

UBC students are developing a technique that causes cells to fluoresce with different colours in response to different sugar levels. [Read more...]

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