Event: UBC Engineering Open House
Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Place: Fred Kaiser Building
2332 Main Mall
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?313
Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre
2345 East Mall
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?301
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UBC Engineering students and researchers are providing an insider’s view on how things work: from wind tunnel aerodynamics and robotics to nanotechnology and DNA testing.
Open House exhibits include:
• making the products you use every day such as pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics
• super materials that can change our world
• latest in earthquake engineering designs
Open House “sneak peek” lab tours include:
• “Charlie” is the new human-friendly robot that is helping researchers at the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. The only one of its kind in Canada, Charlie can navigate indoors at walking speed, handle customary workplace and home obstacles, lift a 10-kilogram load in each hand and reach from the floor to a two-metre high shelf.
• The Boreal Genomics Lab is working on a simple device that allows doctors to take a throat swab and identify a flug bug’s DNA. It also allows investigators to extract DNA from complicated samples like dirt and tar.
• The 3D Innovations Lab focuses on “High Dynamic Range” video coding, interactive multimedia, digital video broadcasting and streaming, digital video indexing and retrieval, digital video security, video processing and compression, HDTV and digital cinema.
Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre
This newly opened $8.5 million facility is home to 16 student teams, famed for their “Supermileage” fuel-efficient vehicles, “Snowbot” robot racers, electric Beetle, concrete toboggan and many other innovations.
Open House design contest:
Guests are invited to design and build an energy-generating, wind turbine blade and sign up for a contest and testing session in UBC’s wind tunnel.
For more information, visit: http://www.engineering.ubc.ca/openhouse