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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Dr Farahmand developed an automatic control system to coordinate computerized measurements with the location of actuators across the sheet of modern paper-making machines. His scheme gives good results even in noisy or uncertain situations, and its effectiveness has been confirmed in different industrial trials. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Mansour studied video transmission over wireless networks. He developed methods that efficiently utilize shared resources to deliver high-quality video streams to multiple users. He successfully demonstrated that his algorithms improve the received video quality in applications such as mobile TV and internet video streaming. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Tomim was able to considerably speed up the numerical simulations of large electric systems, by means of parallel computers. His contributions, in turn, may help electric utilities all over the globe improve their service quality and, ultimately, prevent blackouts. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Tate examined how communicative planning theory affected growth management in Greater Vancouver, applying both communicative planning criteria and a critical actor network theory lens. Her results will help future theorists make major changes to this theory or develop a new post-communicative theory which will improve growth management practice. | Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Najafian investigated the problem of privacy management in social software systems. She proposed a theoretical framework for building privacy-management mechanisms in this domain that provide more control over information privacy and yet, are intuitive and easy to use for the average, non-technical user. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Kumar successfully examined the prospect of employing a new approach based on hydrate crystallization for the separation of carbon dioxide from a fuel gas mixture widely known as pre-combustion capture. His findings validated the applicability of gas hydrates process to separate carbon dioxide from a fuel gas mixture. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Andrina conducted field and meso- scale experiments to improve our understanding of geochemical and flow behaviors within a mine rock pile in high a rainfall environment. She showed that limestone blending and limestone cover are suitable methods to minimize acid drainage from waste rock dumps in high rainfall environments. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Roumina studied mechanical properties of an Aluminum-Magnisium-Scandium alloy. He developed models predicting yield strength and work hardening of the Aluminum-Magnisium-Scandium alloy during thermo-mechanical treatments. Dr. Roumina demonstrated that processing recovered microstructures containing precipitates is a novel approach to improve mechanical properties of aluminum alloys. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Oka developed novel techniques to prolong battery life in wireless sensor networks, by reducing the power spent on data communication. His work involved filtering and compression of sensor data via distributed algorithms, and communication based on low-power ultra-wideband impulse radio with a robust and inexpensive receiver. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2009 | Dr. Afewu modeled water flow and solute transport during heap leaching. Coupled with a reaction model, he predicted the distribution of water, lixiviant concentrations and reaction products from heaps. The study affirms solute transport as the rate limiting step and recommends some process rate enhancement strategies. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |