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The EcoCar is here, and the UVic Green Vehicle Team (GVT) is ready for it!
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BCIC Award for Dr. Brad Buckham
October 19. MECH faculty member, Dr. Brad Buckham shares the BCIC Entrepreneurship Fellow for 2009 with tech entrepreneur and academic Gerri Sinclair. The award recognizes a permanent faculty member at a BC postsecondary institution who is a leader in technology innovation and commercialization in British Columbia. It includes $20,000 to be used for entrepreneurship education and/or commercialization initiatives at the University of Victoria. Dr. Buckham is studying wave energy potential off the west coast Vancouver. More... |
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Another Prestigious Award for MECH Faculty Member
October 13, 2009. Dr. Sadik Dost has received the 2009 University of Victoria Legacy Awards for Research. The award honours recipients "whose energy and dedication have contributed significantly to the quality and reputation of the University of Victoria." Dr. Dost has been with the Department since 1989 and is the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technology and the Canada Research Chair in Semiconductor Crystal Growth. More... |
Two Research Chairs Announced for Mech Eng
September 23. Dr. Davd Sinton has been awarded a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Integrated Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, and Dr. Sadik Dost has been renewed the Canada Research Chair in Semiconductor Crystal Growth. More... |
AUVic Succeeds in San Diego
August 4, 2009. The AUVic team came second at the AUVSI and the Office of Naval Research's 12th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego. The three-person team took a check for $4,000.
Congratulations! More... |
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EcoCAR Team Wins Top Awards
June 16, 2009. UVic EcoCAR team wins seven awards among 17 North American University teams at the first-year competition, including 2nd place overall. The NeXt Challenge is a three-year competition in which selected university teams from the US and Canada design and integrate leading-edge technology into a 2009 Saturn VUE, to reduce the environmental impact of the vehicle while maintaining utility and user appeal. The EcoCAR faculty advisors are mechanical engineeers, Dr. Z. Dong and Dr. C. Crawford. More.... |
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New Research Collaboration Makes Waves
June 4, 2009. Dr. Brad Buckham, a UVic mechanical engineer is the primary investigator for the West Coast Wave Collaboration project (WCWCP), a network of researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and computer modeling experts who will use wind, wave and tidal current data collected from a buoy near Ucluelet, to analyse wave energy potential off western Vancouver Island. The two-year project is co-funded by the Government of Canada and private industry to the sum of over $200k. To quote Dr. Buckham; "The modeling expertise developed through the WCWCP will advance potential wave energy projects in BC, and contribute to the development of future sites for the Canadian wave energy industry." More.... |
Craigdarroch Gold
Medal for Career Achievement in Research
April 6, 2009. Dr. Sadik Dost has been named as the recepient
of the Craigdarroch Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research.
From watches and cell phones to supercomputers and solar panels,
almost all electronic devices rely on the semiconducting properties
of single crystal materials. Sadik Dost is an international
leader in crystal growth, the processes used to produce these
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Best
TA Award
April 1, 2009. Adel Younis, a Ph.D. candidate in the department,
was presented the Best Teaching Assistance Award of 2008. The
department presents an Excellent Teaching Assistance Award
each term and a Best Teaching Assistance Award every year,
based on the evaluations and feedbacks from our students. Mr.
Younis was ranked consistently at the top over two terms. His
professional and dedicated services won him this well deserved
award. The department appreciates the services and contributions
made by all teaching assistants over the past year.. |
NSERC
Award Goes to Mech Students
March 22, 2009. The NSERC Undergraduate Student Research
Award for the summer of 2009, has been awarded to Mechanical
Engineering students, Michael Lewis and Francesco Silletta.
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UVic
Engineering Spearheading
a Tech Park Study
July 18, 2008. A $330,000 study will create a business and
master plan for the Pacific Centre for Ocean Energy and Engineering at UVic's
current Marine Technology Center. The Center will house up
to three wave tanks, each measuring 30,000 square feet. Dr.
Brad Buckham, of the Dept of Mechanical engineering considers
the tanks to be a key part of the site that will make ocean
energy solutions a reality. More... |
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UVic
Engineering Team for Elite Eco-CAR - the "Next Challenge" Competition
May 21, 2008. A team of University of Victoria Engineering
students led by Dr. Zuomin Dong, Chair of Mech Eng., and Jeremy
Wise, Mech student, was selected to participate in the elite
Eco-CAR Challenge Competition, sponsored by US Department of
Energy, General Motors corp., Natural Resources Canada, Argonne
National Lab. and many other leading companies in automotive
industry, software modeling, instrumentation, etc. Media
Release.....
Websites: www.ecocar.uvic.ca,
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Mech Faculty Recognized
for Excellence
April, 2008. Congratulations to Dr. Afzal Suleman on winning
the Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research
and Dr. Peter Wild on winning the UVic Innovation and Development
Corporation Entrepreneurship Award. |
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TA Award
March 10, 2008. Kelly Sakaki (middle) wins the award for the Best
Teaching Assistant in appreciation of his outstanding dedication
and effectiveness in enhancing the learning of our Mech students.
Congratulations Kel! |
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From Waves to Wattage
March 2008. Dr. Afzal Suleman, whose expertise is aerospace engineering,
sees an endless source of energy just waiting to be harnessed.
With graduate student Julio Rodriguez, Suleman has developed a
prototype wave energy converter.. More... |
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