M. Ryan MacIver
Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD)
Structure and fluid transport in flocculated mineral sediments
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fels, S Sidney | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Human computer interaction, human 3D biomechanical modeling, speech synthesis, medical applications of modeling, computer vision, interactive arts and music |
| Feng, James Jingtao | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Department of Mathematics | Fluid Mechanics, Complex fluids, Biophysics, Mathematical biology |
| Feng, Hsi-Yung | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Modelization and Simulation, Software (Tools), Machining and Assembling, Milling, Prototyping, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Geometric Modeling, Multi-Axis CNC Machining, Machining Simulation, 3D Laser Scanning, 3D Printing |
| Fernlund, Goran | Department of Materials Engineering | Polymer matrix composites, Biomaterials, Adhesive bonding |
| Frigaard, Ian | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mathematics | Fluid mechanics (visco-plastic fluids) |
| Frostad, John | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fluid Mechanics, Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods, Emulsions, Foams, Functional Foods, Interfacial Rheology, Interfacial Phenomena, Human Health, Sensory Analysis |
| Fujita, Mari | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Globalization and contested territory, urbanism, contemporary theory, spatial and cultural effects of globalism, material studies, wearables, gallery installations, interiors, building designs, urban proposals |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Image Computing, Machine learning, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Deep Learning |
| Garrett, Bernard Mark | School of Nursing | Health Care Technologies, Ethics and Health, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented reality, Evidence-basedPpractice, Deception in Healthcare, Healthcare Regulation, Alternative Medicine |
| Girling, Cynthia | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Landscape and Restoration, People, Cities and Lands, Design and Planning of Space, Sustainable neighbourhood design, Vizualization and community engagement, Public realm design and planning |
| Gopalakrishnan, Sathish | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | computer and software systems, real-time and embedded computing (computer systems as part of the real world); cyber-physical systems, Real-time systems, distributed systems, resource management |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Grecov, Dana | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Rheology, Rheometry, Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Crystals, Biolubricants, Lubricants, Journal Bearings, Multi-Phase Flow, Synovial Joints, Synovial Fluid, Arthrithis, Liquid crystals and nanomaterials, Biofluid Mechanics |
| Green, Sheldon | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Fluid Mechanics, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, building ventilation, railroads, papermaking |
| Gurstein, Penelope | School of Community and Regional Planning | Housing |
| Gyenge, Elod Lajos | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Electrochemical engineering, fuel cells, batteries, electrodes |
| Hatzikiriakos, Savvas | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Polymer melt and suspension rheology, food rheology, polymer melt processing, superhydrophobicity, surface science, winter sports expert, ski/skate performance and snow/ice friction. |
| Haukaas, Terje | Department of Civil Engineering | Risk, structures, structural safety, seismic, earthquake, probability, computer analysis, Structures, Probabilistic mechanics, structural reliability and optimization, timber engineering, earthquake engineering, decision making, risk, advanced structural analysis, finite elements, response sensitivity analysis, software development |
| Havaei, Farinaz | School of Nursing | |
| Herrington, Susan | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Children’s outdoor play environments, Playgrounds, Natural play environments, Risky play, Landscape architecture, Landscape architecture history, landscape theory, Comtemporary theory, globalization and contested theory, design and history of landscapes |
| Hodgson, Antony | Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering | Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Medical or Surgical Robotics, Medical Engineering, Electoral Reform, Single Transferable Vote, STV, Citizens’ Assembly, Fair Voting |
| Holuszko, Maria | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | minerals characterization as it applies to mineral processing; recovery of metals from industrial and municipal waste streams |
| Honey-Roses, Jordi | School of Community and Regional Planning | environmental planning, water resource management, and impact evaluation |
| Howard, Fuchsia | School of Nursing | health service needs of vulnerable, high-risk survivors of acute life-threatening illness, specifically, cancer survivors and survivors of critical illnesses; hereditary cancer prevention and risk management and psychosocial and ethnocultural factors that shape health and illness experiences |
| Howie, John | Department of Civil Engineering | Field and laboratory characterization of soils for geotechnical engineering design, ground improvement, foundation engineering |
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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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Enabling practical deployment of silicon ring resonator-based systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Effect of thiourea on the dissolution of chalcopyrite in acidic ferric solutions at different temperatures (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Experimental and computational study of an air-breathing micro liquid fuel cell with an extended active anode catalyst region (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Shear strength of soil-pipeline interfaces under low confining stresses and large displacements (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Design, microfabrication, and characterization of a moulded PDMS/SU-8 inkjet dispenser for a lab-on-a-printer platform technology (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Statistical quality-of-service aware adaptive transmission for free space optical communication systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Development of an instantaneous frequency estimation pipeline for compressional and shear wave arrival picking : application to quarry blast data (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Mesh adaptation for wakes via surface insertion (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Soft capacitive sensors for proximity, touch, pressure and shear measurements (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Ecuador gold supply chain : analysis of government intervention in the artisanal mining sector (Mining Engineering - MASC)
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Design principles for homecare documentation based on classifying and modeling workarounds (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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High-efficiency millimeter-wave signal generation for communication, imaging, and radar applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Diabetic retinopathy classification using an efficient convolutional neural network (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Application of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) for water disinfection by multiple wavelengths and pulsed irradiation (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Study of the inactivation of microorganisms using UV-LEDs (Chemical and Biological Engineering - PHD)
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Wind and wave disturbance rejection control of floating offshore wind turbines (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Development of energy storage systems capable of Cu extraction from CuFeS₂ (Materials Engineering - PHD)
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Mechanics of polymer brush based soft active materials (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Development of a dispensing based additive manufacturing technique for the creation of alginate bone scaffolds (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Dynamics of small particles, passive and active, in complex fluids (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Measurement and modelling of human presence, through-wall attenuation and link diversity at millimetre-wave frequencies (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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High assurance real-time systems : scheduling, budgeting, and safety (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Numerical prediction and pyrometric imaging of a hot-surface ignition-assist application (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Production and characterization of bio-oil from catalytic fast pyrolysis in a fluidized bed reactor (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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Rheology and dye adsorption of surfactant-cellulose nanocrystal complexes (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)