Cail Smith
Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP)
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 and apply knowledge and to educate globally responsible professionals empowered to effect enduring, positive change for society.
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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
- Pulp & Paper Centre (PPC)
Nursing
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 clusters:
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The Faculty of Applied Science houses:
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 Engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis, prostate cancer |
| Abugharbieh, Rafeef | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Medical image computing |
| 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 |
| Anasavarapu, Srikantha | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Dynamics of multiscale materials, structures and devices, Applied Mechanics, Micromechanics |
| Angeles, Leonora | School of Community and Regional Planning, Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | simulation nursing education, interprofessional health professional education, health communication, lactation support, leadership in nursing |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Adsorption of a carboxylated silane on gold : characterization and application to PDMS-based electrochemical cells (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Robust control of miniaturized optical image stabilizers for mobile phone cameras (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Direct writing of metal films via microplasma scanning and applications to printed sensors (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Methods for reducing the capital costs of electrolyzers for hydrogen generation (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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The free oscillatory response of fjord-type multi-armed lakes (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Accelerating in-system debug of high-level synthesis generated circuits on field-programmable gate arrays using incremental compilation techniques (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Tracking infection diffusion in social networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Wind waves and internal waves in Base Mine Lake (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Solar hydrogen generation through overall water splitting on gallium-zinc oxynitride visible-light activated photocatalyst (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Mechanics and dynamics of multi-point threading of thin-walled oil pipes (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Modeling of thermal stress cycling in refractory materials (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces : fabrication, wettability, and antibbacterial activity (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Flow visualization in 3D printed PEM fuel cell bipolar plates (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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The voice box : a fast coupled vocal fold model for articulatory speech synthesis (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Role of fibrillation on Poisson's ratio of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Robust statistical subspace-based damage assessment (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Charge-selective transparent conductors for solution-processed organic solar cells (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis in solid polymer electrolyte (spe) reactors with and without power co-generation (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Improving non-constant luminance color encoding efficiency for high dynamic range video applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Characterization of primary particle size variation and its influence on measurable properties of aerosol soot (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Hydrodynamics and solids mixing behaviour of fluidized beds with inclined-hole distributor (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Improving the sound absorption of cross-laminated timber panels using resonant absorbent layer (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Negotiating with robots : meshing plans and resolving conflicts in human-robot collaboration (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Advanced control functionalities for photovoltaic and energy storage converters (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Adaptive wireless sensor network for real-time monitoring of water quality (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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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)