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  • Case Study: A Safer Hockey Helmet

    Helios Global Technology Ltd. is collaborating with the Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanical Group and the STAR Initiative (UBC Okanagan) to develop a hockey helmet that reduces the severity of impacts to the head. Read More

  • Case Study: Lower-cost Stroke Rehabilitation

    The CARIS Lab is creating novel rehabilitation methods for stroke and cerebral palsy using social media frameworks and low-cost robotic devices. Their unique rehabilitation exercises have yielded 90% patient satisfaction. Read More

  • Case Study: Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping

    The Advanced Fibre Processing Lab is collaborating with fourteen pulp and paper industry partners and NSERC CRD to develop a 5-year, $4 million program to reduce total pulp and paper energy consumption by at least 20%. Read More

  • Case Study: Industrial Robot-Human Interaction

    General Motors is collaborating with Dr. Croft and her team in the CARIS Lab to improve interaction between industrial robots and employees on GM's door assembly line. Read More

  • Case Study: Improving Train Wheel Lifespan

    Forced vibration in train wheels reduces overall lifetime and increases the amount of maintenance required for both the wheel and the track. The Dynamics and Applied mechanics Lab (DAL) and LB Foster are collaborating to decrease maintenance costs over the lifetime of train wheels and tracks. Read More

  • Case Study: Affordable, Painless Microneedles

    The Stoeber Lab is collaborating with dermatological and pharmaceutical science researchers at UBC to develop a painless microneedle patch that will cost only 10 cents apiece. Read More

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Industry collaborations are an essential part of our work. They provide our professors and students with challenging projects that are relevant to industry, while also helping our industry partners realize tangible competitive advantages. Together, UBC and our industry partners are able to find solutions to important issues and make a positive impact on industry and society.

Our department has a long and successful history of collaboration with industry, and we always welcome new opportunities to collaborate on challenging projects. We are eager to help our partners become more competitive in their fields, and can provide expertise in a broad range of areas within mechanical engineering: from advanced manufacturing techniques to high efficiency combustion and the many areas in between.

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Amelia Pitt-Brooke, Communications Officer
2054 - 6250 Applied Science Lane
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel 604 827 1743
Email industryenquiries@mech.ubc.ca
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