Why Choose UBC Engineering?
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As an Engineering student, UBC provides you with leading-edge facilities and resources for learning, including the sustainably designed Kaiser Building, the cross-discipline Engineering Design Centre and state-of-the-art laboratories and academic buildings dedicated to the spectrum of Engineering specialties. UBC also features several multidisciplinary research buildings designed to promote collaboration. When you need a break, head to the Cheeze – once an operating cheese factory and now a place where Engineering students study and socialize.
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Enhance your in-class learning. UBC has more than 300 student clubs, including one for each Engineering discipline, as well as the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) student government and the Women in Engineering (WIE) program. Acquire paid, technical engineering work experience through the Engineering Co-op Program. Consider joining one of the Engineering student teams that compete successfully around the world.
Opportunities to enhance your in-class learning include:
Engineering Co-op
Emerging Leaders Program
Engineers Without Borders
Engineering Undergraduate Society
E-Team (peer leadership program)
GEERing Up!
Student clubs such as TEC (The Entrepreneurship Club)
Student teams such as Concrete Toboggan, Formula SAE or Thunderbird Robotics
Women in Engineering
UBC Engineering encourages you to develop your professional skills – skills that will be invaluable to you in your career.
As an Engineering student and one of the creators of tomorrow’s world, at UBC you will receive ongoing guidance to prepare you for community, organizational and global leadership.
Jump-start your career by taking a workshop on résumé writing, participating in career fairs and attending employer information sessions. UBC Engineering offers these and more to complement your academic learning throughout your enrollment.
Expand your network and knowledge of your future career as a participant of the Engineering Mentoring Program. This innovative program grows with you. Junior students are mentored by senior students, who are in turn mentored by local industry leaders who are often UBC Engineering alumni. As you become more advanced, so does the guidance you receive. In turn, you reinforce your knowledge by sharing what you’ve learned.
Use your engineering knowledge to collaborate with communities locally and around the world. You can join the hundreds of engineering students who participate in the Reading Week Projects – week-long community service projects where UBC students teach science and engineering to local elementary school students. Or if you’re interested in helping globally, follow the paths of our students working with the urban poor in Ghana to create sustainable livelihoods or in Lesotho working to improve sanitation and health. These are just a few of the recent projects to which UBC engineering students have lent their skills.
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Whether you have a knack for inventing or an idea for an innovative business, the UBC New Ventures Program facilitates collaboration between Engineering and Commerce students to take ideas off the page and into the world, where they can make a difference.
Recent student entrepreneurship success stories include:
EnergyAware, an in-home energy monitoring system, named “Most Promising Start-Up” by British Columbia Technology Industry Association
EasyPlug, a device that allows the safe disconnection of electric plugs at the wall
PeerFX, an online currency exchange service that received venture capital on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.
Making a Difference
UBC Engineering gives you the opportunity to focus on issues that affect every global citizen and every facet of our planet. Choose from 11 specialized programs that lead to a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree. Learn valuable analytic and design skills from the world’s leading experts, gain practical experience in our cutting-edge laboratory facilities and apply your knowledge in the field. UBC’s program focuses on team-based project work, early design experience and professional development, as well as active industry and community involvement.
UBC students, faculty and researchers share a desire to create a better world. You can see this value through a sampling of current student and faculty research projects, including creating synthetic material that can help burn victims recover faster, improving copper-mining techniques using viruses and bacteria, and discovering how toxic substances disperse in bodies of water.
UBC Engineers are among the best-prepared and most respected in industry and academia. An engineering degree from UBC provides you with a solid foundation on which to build your career anywhere, in almost any field. Astronautics, video game design, urban planning, medicine, law and business – these are just a few of your career options as a UBC Engineering alumnus.
