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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dr. Noureddin studied the effects of eye movements and blinks on EEG measurement, and developed new and useful methods for removing such artifacts without the need for electrodes attached to the face. The research has helped pave the way for real-time, usable EEG-based human interfaces such as a brain computer interface. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Tang developed methods that provide universal multimedia access irrespective of the telecommunications, entertainment or broadcasting standards employed. His research provides efficient solutions that enable people using different digital phones, computers or digital television sets to share and display videos transmitted over the Internet or traditional wireline, wireless or cable systems. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Sheng Zhong examined how the obsolescent industrial spaces in the inner city of Shanghai had been transformed into new spaces of cultural production and consumption. This research illuminates the processes as well as the roles of the state in China's breakneck pace of urban change. | Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Tayi designed a comprehensive mathematical model for retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into mammalian cells. He experimentally investigated the kinetic steps and validated the mathematical model. He subsequently used the model to optimize the experimental system for centrifugation-based delivery of retroviral vectors into mammalian cells. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Karim Ismail worked on road safety analysis, in hope of saving some of the approximately 2500 lives lost yearly on Canadian roads. Dr. Ismail developed a technique for road safety evaluation by automating traffic conflict techniques. Dr. Ismail's work had a special focus on vulnerable road users. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Al-Athel developed new equations and implemented them in an in-house computer code to analyze and simulate metal forming and metal cutting applications. The new code overcomes most of the drawbacks and difficulties associated with commercial codes dealing with this type of analysis. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. von dem Knesebeck developed fast and highly-efficient motion estimation methods for encoding digital video on mobile devices. His research facilitates low power consumption while delivering high compression efficiency for digital video encoding. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Drouin developed techniques to better understand and improve the performance of continuous mammalian cell culture processes, called perfusion culture. He was the first to define conditions that improved culture productivity using a growth-associated cell line, and to describe how cells aggregate. These advances contribute to addressing the increasing demand for therapeutic protein products from biotechnology. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Zobeiry developed a new methodology to identify damage properties of composite materials using a combined experimental and numerical approach. The proposed methodology is a promising tool for characterizing the behaviour of composite materials in a relatively easy and direct manner. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Elesawey developed an approach for travel time estimation on urban road networks using limited data collected from part of the network. The aim was to estimate real-time travel times on links that are not covered with sensors using their relationships with nearby links that are covered with sensors. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |