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)
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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 clusters:
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The Faculty of Applied Science houses:
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Froese, Thomas | Department of Civil Engineering | Construction Engineering and Management, Project Management, Computer-Integrated Construction, Product and Process Models for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Computers in Engineering Education |
| Frostad, John | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fluid Mechanics, 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 |
| Gadala, Mohamed | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Mechanics and heat transfer, Crack Detection and Crack Propagation, Numerical Simulation of Controlled Cooling Process of Steel |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Medical image computing |
| Garrett, Bernard Mark | School of Nursing | Health Care Technologies, Ethics and Health, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented reality, Evidence-basedPpractice, Deception in Healthcare, Healthcare Regulation |
| Girling, Cynthia | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | Landscape and Restoration, People, Cities and Lands, 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 |
| Hall, Wendy Anne | School of Nursing | transition to parenting and the related areas of infant sleep and breast feeding; effects of infant behavioural sleep problems on infants and their parents and developing interventions to assist parents to manage those sleep problems |
| Hall, Eric | Department of Civil Engineering | forest industry pollution; pulp and paper wastewater, wastewater treatment, Environmental Engineering, Pollution Control and Wastewater Management |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
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Recent Thesis Submissions
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Long stroke magnetic levitation planar stages (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Kinetic study of the dissolution of chalcopyrite in the presence of a catalyst under acidic sulfate medium (Materials Engineering - MASC)
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Analysis and design enhancement of an interference fit in a slot/insert assembly condition (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Mechanics, dynamics and stability of turn-milling operations (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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CFD-DEM simulation of locomotive sanders (Mechanical Engineering - MASC)
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Life cycle and techno-economic assessment of transportation biofuels from hydrothermal liquefaction of forest residues in British Columbia (Chemical and Biological Engineering - MASC)
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A machine learning framework for temporal enhanced ultrasound guided prostate cancer diagnostics (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Value of pumped storage systems in British Columbia (Civil 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)
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Architectural support for inter-thread synchronization in SIMT architectures (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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Probabilistic dynamic rating curves using auxiliary information (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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A broadband self-interference cancellation circuit for simultaneous full-duplex radio applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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A mix-grained architecture for improving HLS-generated controllers on FPGAs (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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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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Analysis and optimization of communication technologies for smart grid applications (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Dual-loop linear controller for LLC resonant converters (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Damage, collapse potential and long duration effects of subduction ground motions on structural systems (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Combining inter and intra-line cache compression (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Contextual permission models for better privacy protection (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Practical considerations for ageing of drinking water membranes (Civil Engineering - PHD)
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Particles in a yield-stress fluid : yield limit, sedimentation and hydrodynamic interaction (Mechanical Engineering - PHD)
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Modeling forced outage in hydropower generating units for operations planning model (Civil Engineering - MASC)
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Advancing the understanding of Android unlocking and usage (Electrical and Computer Engineering - MASC)
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Mobile edge cloud : computation scheduling and caching (Electrical and Computer Engineering - PHD)
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Boron and phosphorus removal from Si-Fe solvent using SiO₂-CaO-Al₂O₃ slag (Materials Engineering - MASC)