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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. Khan developed a framework to satisfactorily address the challenges in a cooperative multi-robot system. Inspired by the human immune system, the multi-robot system consists of a team of autonomous and heterogeneous mobile robots which cooperate with each other to achieve a global goal while resolving conflicts and accommodating failures in the robots. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Xu developed a novel reactor used for carbon dioxide separation and investigated the reactor operation and performance through experiments and a mathematical model. This research provides an important method to reduce the carbon dioxide emission. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Juarez Garcia's research makes two major contributions to an interdependency simulator (I2Sim) to handle different types of hazards and events that affect dense concentrations of people. With the methodology and I2Sim it will be possible to build up Regional models, Disaster Scenarios, Objective Functions and Emergency Planning. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Wen developed a potential solution for ultrasound-based dose computation for a type of radiation treatment of prostate cancer. He helped build a functional prototype imaging system that makes it possible to test the proposed method in the lab or clinically. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Waldbillig's research focuses on making clean energy affordable. He developed a novel manufacturing process to fabricate high-performing solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte layers rapidly and inexpensively. He subsequently used this process to produce working fuel cells with optimized electrolyte layers and then characterized their properties. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Chan examined the enabling mechanisms for optimizing lean, spark-ignition for natural gas engines. His research demonstrated stable ultra-lean combustion using a novel spark-ignition strategy. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Shoa investigated an artificial muscle actuator device and characterized and modeled its physical properties. She studied the feasibility of using this device for guiding a catheter through arteries. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Fattah developed control strategies for operating a reactor that can be used to recover phosphorus from wastewater, in the form of struvite, that provides a sustainable source of slow-release fertilizer. The chemical and process control models developed will enable easier, increased yield and higher operational efficiency of the process. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Srikongsri developed a hydromechanical framework to explain the onset of retention incompatibility between soil and a geotextile filter in cyclic flow conditions. The framework is used to examine the inherent margin of safety in recommended design criteria, and thereby enhance confidence in the use of geotextile filters in engineering practice. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Bahadoorsingh compared the nitrification rates in different wastewater treatment processes. Her research related specific nitrification rates of membrane and conventional treatment processes to various parameters and the bacteria community structure and abundance. The research is significant as it clarifies that the nitrification performance between the two wastewater treatment processes is similar. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) |