The Faculty of Applied Science comprises a unique constellation of professional disciplines including; Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Nursing and Community & Regional Planning. The core purpose shared across all of our four disciplines is to discover, create and apply knowledge, provide unwavering top-tier education and champion a community of responsible professionals devoted to serving a thriving, sustainable and healthy society. Our work and the professions which our graduates represent span the entire human-centred built environment.
The disciplines within the Faculty of Applied Science are celebrated for the scope, strength and impact of their research activities. Our Faculty claims the spotlight in the global arena for our research in clean energy, communication and digital technologies, health and health technology among many others. We offer disciplinary-specific research based graduate programs as well as a range of professional graduate programs and pride ourselves on our ability to open doors of opportunity to students beyond their time within our Faculty.
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Senbel, Maged | School of Community and Regional Planning | Urban design, environmental planning, climate change planning, public engagement, urban agriculture, multi-media, social media and youth engagement |
| Servati, Peyman | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Energy Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Shahrad, Mohammad | Computer engineering; cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; data center efficiency | |
| Shahrad, Mohammad | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | cloud computing; serverless computing; Resource Management; data center efficiency |
| Sharafianardakani, Amir | Heat and mass transfer operations; Catalytic process engineering; Mechanical characterization (including modeling, testing, and monitoring); Hydrogen; Natural gas; Decarbonization; climate change; Greenhouse gas reduction | |
| Shawwash, Ziad K | Department of Civil Engineering | Modeling and optimization of large-scale civil engineering systems; planning, design and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities; use of decision, policy and risk analysis techniques in water resource planning and management; use of artificial intelligence systems in water resource and hydroelectric systems. |
| Shekhar, Sudip | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Chip design, radio communication, mobile communication, data links, integrated circuits, photonics, CMOS, wireless, electronics, Internet of Things. |
| Sinclair, Chadwick | Department of Materials Engineering | Modelization and Simulation; Theoretical Approach; Metals and Alloys; Material Design; Mechanical and Physical Processes; Materials Science and Engineering; Computational Materials Science; Manufacturing; Alloy Design; Solid State Physics; Mechanics |
| Smith, Kevin | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Fossil Fuels; Biomass (Energy); Chemical Processes; Applied catalysis |
| Soules, Matthew | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | relationship between contemporary capitalism and the built environment; three interrelated topics that collectively constitute a significant constellation within capitalism |
| Srebnik, Simcha | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Bioinspired engineering and biomimetic design; Carbon nanotubes; Developing models for interfacial polymerization membraned; Diffusion in nanostructured materials; Functional materials; Hierarchical modeling; Mechanical properties of polymers melts and polymer networks; Molecular simulation of polymers and composite materials; Molecular simulations; Optimization of protein-imprinted polymers; Polymers and biopolymers; Protein folding and stability; Statistical thermodynamics of polymers and biopolymers; Understanding polymer-carbon nanotube interactions |
| Staub-French, Sheryl | Department of Civil Engineering | Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces |
| Steen, John Thomas | Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering | Strategy; Innovation; Network analysis; Projects; Mining industry |
| Stevens, Sara | School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture | history and theory of architecture and urban design, urban history, economic theory, and the history of infrastructure |
| Stevens, Mark | School of Community and Regional Planning | evaluating the effectiveness of local and regional government land use planning efforts, with a goal of producing new knowledge that can help communities anticipate and adapt to changes according to the principles of sustainable development; plan-making and implementation, growth management, natural hazard mitigation, and legal issues in planning; (1) a study of municipal climate change planning in BC, (2) a meta-analysis of environmental policy adoption, (3) a plan evaluation study of award-winning plans, and (4) a study on the content and delivery of quantitative methods courses in urban planning programs |
| Stoeber, Boris | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Microelectromechanical Systems, MEMS, Microfluidics, Sensor Technology, Biomedical Microdevices, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microflow Phenomena, Sensor technology, Integrated microsystems for biomedical applications and for environmental control |
| Swei, Omar | Department of Civil Engineering | Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation |
| Taghipour, Fariborz | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Clean Technologies; Solar and Wind Energy; Drinking Water; solar fuels; Artificial Photosynthetic Systems; UV Photoreactors; UV-LED Reactors; UV Microplasma; Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
| Taiebat, Mahdi | Department of Civil Engineering | static and dynamic soil-structure interaction, Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure-interaction |
| Takahata, Kenichi | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies |
| Tang, Shuo | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy |
| Thorne, Sally | School of Nursing | Clinical oncology; Nursing; cancer care; chronic illness; Medical assistance in dying |
| Thrampoulidis, Christos | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Trajano, Heather | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Chemical engineering; Biomass (Energy); Wood; Pulp and paper; Biochemicals; Biomass extractives recovery and utilization; Biorefining; catalysis; Hemicellulose; Kinetics; Pretreatment |
| Tran, Martino | School of Community and Regional Planning | systems science, predictive modelling and simulation for understanding and tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability |
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Applied Science.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Dr. Aljalai developed novel signaling schemes to improve the performance of 5G cellular networks and beyond. He invented the Dual Pilot Scheme and its extended version to enhance the estimation of communication channels. His research improves Quality-of-Service by advancing telecommunication systems through practical and economic engineering solutions. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Soysa examined the shear behavior of sand-silt mixtures through an extensive experimental research program. He developed a new laboratory criterion to assess the seismic resistance of soils. His study advances the current state of knowledge and understanding of the strength and stiffness of soils. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Ibrahim demonstrated that mobile automated speed enforcement increases safety by reducing collisions and crime incidence, and identified that changing the number of times an enforcement is visited can change the safety outcome. These novel findings can allow road agencies to maximize safety benefits by strategically deploying limited resources. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Abdi introduced novel machine learning methods for clinical diagnosis and planning of jaw reconstructive surgeries and cardiovascular interventions. His designs and ideas enable clinicians in decision making via AI-generated insights from echocardiograms, multimodality information fusion, generative modelling, and object tracking. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Adhikari examined the synergy between pedestrian design features and neighbourhood walkability to explain physical activity in children, teens, and older adults. His findings can be used to design cities with better pedestrian environments by retrofitting existing urban infrastructure and harnessing neighbourhood walkability for health benefits. | Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Mohtajeb used open MRI to study anterior femoroacetabular impingement, a condition that occurs with subtle bony abnormalities within the hip. She developed and validated a hip model using MRI and motion data and used it to predict impingement during level walking, helping us understand how bony deformities cause hip pain and osteoarthritis. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Heikkinen developed a laser-based method for remotely tracking microscopic motions of objects and structures. His technique can measure motions much less than the diameter of a human hair at distances of several tens of meters. His method has great potential for safely assessing the integrity of structures located in hazardous environments. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Mahmoodi studied the engineering of high-rise buildings. She investigated irregularities and discontinuities in concrete shear wall buildings. By understanding the complex nonlinear mechanics, she was able to develop design methods that will assist structural engineers to make high-rise buildings safer in earthquakes. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Ronquillo examined how Implementation Leadership Characteristics influenced nurses' use of mobile health technologies in clinical practice, and found that stronger implementation leadership among first-level leaders had a larger impact on younger nurses and nurses with diploma and bachelors degrees compared to nurses with graduate degrees. | Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) |
| 2021 | Dr. Sakamoto examined the experiences and perceptions of older adults with dementia and hospitalized for long periods of time. Her work used first-hand patient accounts, and revealed that more can be done to actively involve them in their hospital care. She also revealed that nurses can do more to ensure the health and wellbeing of these patients. | Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) |