Did you submit an application to the Professional Activities Fund (PAF) this year?  Do you have feedback on the process or structure of PAF?  We want to hear your suggestions!  Your EUS and UBC Engineering will be co-hosting a session to hear your concerns.

>> Click here to visit the PAF website

The UBC Engineering Competition is now accepting application forms!  Basically the qualification round to get into the Western Engineering Competition, we will be holding all 6 WEC events at UBC within the coming weeks!  For details on each event, and how to apply, click here.

The Rowbots (from left to right): Brad Burt, Howard Hu, Matthew Perttula, Andrew Nobles, Alim Jiwa, Kevin Lowe, Kevin Baillie, Andrew Porritt, Jared Cunnington

Day of the longboat; a 2 day festival situated at the Jericho Sailing Centre, in which over 270 teams participated in a 2 km canoe race of epic proportions.  A competition hosted by UBC REC, mechanical engineering team RowBots came in 1^st in the divisional and second campus wide. (more…)

Want to find out more about the robotic engineering student teams?

Come out to the Thunderbird Robotics open house to check out the Snowbots’ robot racers, TREAD’s moon excavators and the Thunderbots’ soccer playing robots.  There will be demos, team members and FREE FOOD!

Date: Tuesday, September 29th
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Location: Kaiser 2020/230

The Engineering Thunderbots team is back from Graz, Austria after competing in the 2009 Robocup Competition. The world-renowned event attracted thousands of participants from over 40 different countries, as well as lots of talent.  The goal?  To compete in the small sized league, where they had autonomous robots (pictured above) playing soccer against robots created by other schools! (more…)