The applied sciences – architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, nursing, and planning – change society's conception of what is possible as a matter of course. Applied scientists make dreams real, turn ideas into practice. We embody the interface between present and future.
A community of diverse disciplines on campuses in two cities, we recognize the promise inherent in our differences. We are at our best when faced with problems considered by most to be impossible to solve, for it is there that our varied approaches, practice cultures, and discipline-specific languages, combined, become our greatest strength.
We are a Faculty of leaders. We take the initiative. We are defined by our integrity, excellence, innovative mindset, and passionate spirit of engagement. We are ideally positioned to address some of the greatest challenges of our time. From nurses and engineers working in First Nations communities and in Africa improving healthcare, to architects, landscape architects and community planners improving the built environment, our graduate students enlist their skills and networks to truly make a difference. As part of one of the world’s premier universities, it is not just our vision to educate the next generation of leaders, it is our responsibility.
Innovation and its application is our passion in the Faculty of Applied Science. We take pride in our ability to transfer knowledge and contribute to economic growth through research and entrepreneurship.
Mission
To create positive change in the world through the generation, professional embodiment, and innovative application of new knowledge.
Research Centres
Applied Science participates in a number of research centres and laboratories at UBC, some of which are inter-faculty collaborations and others of which are within Applied Science and involve inter-departmental collaborations.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)
- Design Centre for Sustainability
- The James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments
Community & Regional Planning
Engineering
- Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL)
- Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC)
- Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
- Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL)
- Pulp & Paper Centre (PPC)
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Research Highlights
Through leadership and the relentless charge to improve professional practice, Applied Science researchers – often in interdisciplinary and pan-professional collaborations – advance knowledge, policies and technologies, and solve the global challenges facing society. In any specific year, over 100 leading companies partner with UBC APSC to advance their research agendas.
The UBC Applied Science research enterprise helps drive the reputation of one of the top research-intensive universities in the world. Our researchers claim the spotlight in the global arena in the following research themes:
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Aamodt, Tor | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | computer architecture, optimizing compilers, Computer architecture, Microarchitecture and programming models for energy efficient computer accelerators |
| Abolmaesumi, Purang | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Ultrasound Imaging, Image Guided Surgery, Cancer Imaging, Computer Assisted Interventions, Surgical Robotics |
| Adebar, Perry Erwin | Department of Civil Engineering | Concrete structures, seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures |
| Altintas, Yusuf | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Virtual Machining, Computer Control of Manufacturing Systems, CAD/CAM, CNC Design, High Speed Feed Drive Control, Real Time Interpolation and Trajectory Generation for Machine Tools, Adaptive Control, Sensor Fused Intelligent Machining, Metal Cutting Mechanics, Chatter Vibrations in Machining, Piezo -Actuator Based Precision Machining, High Speed Milling, Optimal Machining of Aerospace Parts, Dies and Molds, Automation, Precision Engineering, Electro Mechanical Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Machining Processes, Mechanics, dynamics and control of micro-machining operations |
| Angeles, Leonora | School of Community and Regional Planning | Gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and other gender planning related tools, including feminist critiques and perspectives on the intergration of gender and other social axes of difference and diversity in community planning and international development work |
| Asselin, Edouard | Department of Materials Engineering | Hydrometallurgy (including leaching, electrometallurgy and residue characterization), Electrochemistry (including high temperature electrochemistry and sensors) |
| Bacca, Mattia | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Solid Mechanics, Adhesion and fracture, Soft materials, Biophysics |
| Baldwin, Susan | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Bioprocess engineering, bioremediation, biomedical reaction modelling |
| Banthia, Nemkumar | Department of Civil Engineering | Materials engineering, concrete, advanced composite materials, shotcrete, fibre reinforcement, rebound mechanics, kinamatic studies, optimization, supplementary cementing materials in concrete |
| Bass, John | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Constested landscapes Globalization and Contested Territory, Infrastructure, Social Equity, Visualization and Community Engagement |
| Baumbusch, Jennifer | School of Nursing | long-term residential care, family caregiving, Intellectual Disability, nursing care of older adults |
| Berube, Pierre | Department of Civil Engineering | Water treatment, trace organic contaminants, membrane and advanced oxidation technologies., Drinking water treatment, filtration/membrane processes for water and wastewater treatment, distribution system water quality, advanced oxidation, wastewater reuse |
| Beznosov, Konstantin | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | usable security and privacy, mobile security and privacy, computer security and privacy, online social networks security and privacy |
| Bhargava, Vijay | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Green communications, cognitive and cooperative wireless systems, MIMO-OFDM systems, cross-layer analysis |
| Bi, Xiaotao | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Biomass and Bioenergy, Multiphase Chemical Reactors, Fluidization, Particle technology, Electrostatics of Powders, Life Cycle Analysis, Green Engineering, Industrial Symbiosis, Fuel Cells Water Management |
| Bigazzi, Alexander York | Department of Civil Engineering, School of Community and Regional Planning | Transportation Systems, active transportation, bicycles, Air quality, motor vehicle emissions, travel behaviour |
| Boschma, Geertje | School of Nursing | History of nursing and health care, with special emphasis on mental health and mental health nursing |
| Brown, Helen Jean | School of Nursing | Maternal-infant and women |
| Browne, Annette | School of Nursing | Health inequalities, indigenous peoples, women's health, cultural safety, primary health care interventions to improve health outcomes, marginalized populations, health policy |
| Bungay, Victoria | School of Nursing | sexuality, sex work, harm reduction, drug use, intersectionality, ethnography, communication technologies, community based research, Health inequities affecting men and women working in the commercial sex industry and people who are street-involved, leadership, public health nursing, mental health, sexual health, HIV, and harm reduction programming |
| Bushe, William Kendal | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Clean Energy, Combustion, Turbulence, Numerical Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, IC Engines andThermal Power Generation |
| Byrne, Fionn | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | |
| Campbell, Suzanne | School of Nursing | Community Health / Public Health, Health Promotion, Interpersonal Communication, Educational Technologies, Health Care Technologies, Modelization and Simulation, Social Determinants of Health, Global Health and Emerging Diseases, Adult Education and Continuing Education, simulation nursing education, interprofessional health professional education, health communication, lactation support, leadership in nursing, global maternal-infant-child health |
| Campbell, Heather | School of Community and Regional Planning | |
| Cao, Yankai | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Optimization, Control and Operations Research, Solar and Wind Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Large Scale Optimization |
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Graduate Student Profiles
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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A microfluidic platform to study real-time tumour cell and tumour spheroid response to chronic and transient hypoxia (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Long stroke magnetic levitation planar stages (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Computational modeling and performance characterization of an acoustic cell concentration and washing device (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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A differential push-pull voltage mode driver for vertical-cavity surface emitting laser (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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A hybrid precoding and signal detection framework for future wireless systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Design and analysis of supply-noise-insensitive all-digital phase-locked loops (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Ring resonator based silicon photonic transmitter and receiver (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Copper leaching in chloride media with a view to using seawater for heap leaching of secondary sulfides (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Novel approaches to studying foodborne pathogen biofilms and insoluble layers at an air-liquid interface (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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On the development of a method for continuous fractionation of non-Brownian particles in a viscoplastic fluid (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Residual stress measurement of plates using shearography (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Energy efficient schemes in a mobile sensor network with application in automated monitoring of water quality (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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The effect of sulfur in rotary kiln fuels on nickel laterite calcination (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Mechanism and experimental validation of innovative self-centering conical friction damper (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Automated tuning of wireless mesh networks for smart meter applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Pattern matching in massive metadata graphs at scale (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Seismic design and performance evaluation of innovative controlled rocking dual-fused bridge system (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Advanced MEMS inertial sensors : Simscape modelling and applications in Sliding Mode Control (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Numerical study of a transient bifurcating-flow near slotted apertures (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Experimental study of the pre-gelation behaviour of composite prepreg (Materials Engineering - MSC)
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Logistics of wood chips supply and performance analysis of an industrial updraft gasifier (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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The effectiveness of bauxite residue in reducing biomass gasification tars (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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DCRA : Decentralized Cognitive Resource Allocation model for game as a service (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Removal of soluble selenium in the presence of nitrate from coal mining-influenced water (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Environmental, economic and policy analysis of energy production from biomass residues in British Columbia (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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ROI-based brain functional connectivity using fMRI : regional signal representation, modelling and analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Improved sizing of PV-BESS DC microgrids : a mixed-integer optimization (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Studies on lignin model compounds upgrading with in-situ glycerol aqueous phase reforming and the application for upgrading of ligneous material (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)