CHBE Alumni Presentation: From PhD to Professor
Speaker: Dr. Fuhar Dixit, post-doc at UC Berkeley Date and Time: September 22, 2025| 12 – 1 p.m. PT Location: CHBE 202 Dr. Dixit will talk about his academic journey, his experience in the CHBE program, his career in academia and his recent participation in the Nobel Laureate meetings. Speaker Bio Dr. Dixit is currently […]
Distinguished Speaker Seminar September 19, 2025: Kelly Sanders
From Climate Risk to Resilience: Quantitative Insights at the Intersection of Energy, Water, and Public Health Date and Time: September 19, 2025 | 1 p.m. PST Location: CHBE 102 Refreshments will be served at 12:50pm Abstract Climate-driven extreme events place escalating and uneven pressure on the critical systems we rely on to deliver electricity, clean […]
CHBE Meet and Greet: Sept 23
First-year engineering students and current CHBE students are invited to the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering’s Meet and Greet on Tuesday, September 23rd from 5:45 to 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time in the CHBE Atrium. During this event: 1st Year Engineering Students: Are you interested in meaningful hands-on experience in research or industry-sponsored projects? Then the CHBE Research Scholar or CHBE […]
Dr. Eric Lees, Dr. Elod Gyenge and Marina Mehling Awarded 2025 Peter Wall Legacy Award
We are excited to announce the CHBE recipients of the 2025 Wall Fellowships and Wall Research Awards. Research Awards of $200,000 each were granted to Dr. Eric Lees (lead PI) and Dr. Elod Gyenge for their project titled “Upcycling Agricultural Wastewater from the Fraser Valley into Fertilizer Using Renewable Electricity.” A Research Award of $30,000–$60,000 […]
Capstone Awards 2024W
Congratulations to all CHBE students for completing their Capstone projects this year! You all should be extremely proud of the work that you produced. The undergraduate programs culminate in a significant student design experience delivered through a Capstone Design course. Students carry out the design and economic assessment of a major, environmentally-sound process in chemical […]
Volunteer for the CHBE Vancouver Summer Program
The Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) was created to allow international students to experience life at a Canadian university. Running from July 14th to August 8th, the program provides students with courses that display the fundamentals of Chemical and Chemical & Biological Engineering while showing the best UBC and Vancouver has to offer. We also plan […]
2025 Winter Session Registration Instructions
Welcome to all the new incoming Chemical and Biological Engineering (CHBE) students and welcome back to the returning CHBE students! Below, you will find key information to help you through your registration for the 2025 Winter session. We recommend reviewing the Course Registration page for basic information about how to register in Workday Student. Registration […]
Daniel Gonzalez on Finding Opportunities through the COOP Program
Daniel Gonzalez is a 2025 graduate from the Chemical Engineering undergraduate program at UBC. During his time at UBC, Daniel took part in the COOP program, was a member of the Junior Varsity Baseball team and participated in intramural sports.We reached out to Daniel to ask him about his experience in the Chemical and Biological […]
Clean Energy Research Centre Seminar June 13th: Dr. Chris Greig
Title: To achieve net-zero, we must confront three systemic failures Date and Time: June 13th, 2025 at 11am Location: CHBE 202 Speaker: Dr. Chris Greig, Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy andthe Environment, at Princeton University Abstract: In recent years, most nations and numerous major corporations have pledged to achieve net-zero emissions […]