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UBC Engineering student Alexandre Jennison built a biodiesel-powered motorcycle and plans on riding it 1,200 miles across the West Coast to prove that clean fuels aren’t just the future. They’re ready right now.

Starting in fall 2024, UBC Applied Science will add 238 spaces in undergraduate chemical, computer, integrated and biomedical engineering at UBC Vancouver. One hundred undergraduate engineering spaces will be added at UBC Okanagan.

Meet six UBC Engineering women and non-binary graduates of 2023 who have made an impact.

UBC’s award-winning Third Quadrant Design– a team of more than 60 students in engineering, architecture, business, and arts – is about to start construction of a new student space on campus that redefines sustainable design.

The UBC Thunderbots have placed first in their division at the RoboCup, an annual robot soccer competition for university students around the world.    It is the UBC design team’s second RoboCup victory in a row, having topped the same event category — the Lower Tournament of RoboCup’s Small Size League — in 2019. (The 2020 competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)    

We’ve compiled 18 stories of female students and alumni, with each story featuring a woman who is studying or working in a specific engineering field.

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…