CHBE Meet and Greet – Nov 18
Friday, November 18th at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time Current and prospective CHBE Students are invited to the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering’s Meet and Greet on Friday, November 18th at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time in the CHBE Atrium. Come network with CHBE professors and students. Prospective students can learn about CHBE undergraduate programs and […]
Prof Xiaotao Bi Receives BC Bioenergy Sector Award
Professor in the UBC Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director, Clean Energy Research Centre, Xiaotao Bi, is the winner of the 2nd annual BC Bioenergy Sector Researcher Awards. The BC Bioenergy Sector Awards are presented to leaders who have made meaningful contribution to advance bioenergy research, policy & sector building, and innovation in […]
CHBE Student Winners at CCEC 2022
Congratulations to all UBC students who have won awards at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, held in Vancouver from October 23rd to 26th, 2022! Winning CHBE students include: Graduate Student Poster Awards Ghazal GhorbaniGraduate student in Dr. Fariborz Taghipour’s research groupSeparations and Environment categoryPoster: Development of UV-LED activated semiconductor gas sensors for the selective detection […]
CHBE Welcomes CCEC 2022 Delegates
UBC is excited to host the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC) in Vancouver, taking place October 23rd – 26th, 2022. CCEC brings together 900+ delegates from Canada and around the world in one place. Join the delegates at CCEC to: Registration is now closed. Find schedule details in the Program Overview. Note: Thank you to […]
Special Seminar: Catalytic Gasification of Waste – Oct 28
The Clean Energy Research Centre and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering invite you to their seminar. Title: Catalytic gasification of waste: economic and technical feasibility Speaker: Dr. Josephine Hill, University of Calgary, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Date: October 28th, 2022 Time: 1p.m. Location: CHBE 102, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver Abstract “What […]
Jasmeen Kaur Receives MANA Best Poster Award
Jasmeen Kaur, CHBE Postdoctoral fellow, has received the best poster award and travel grant at the Metabolomics Association of North America’s (MANA) 4th annual conference in Edmonton. Dr. Kaur received the award for her poster “Metabolic profiling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by the Corpse plant using GC×GC-TOF MS”, research carried out in Dr. […]
Virtual Graduate Fair
The Canadian Graduate Engineering Consortium (CGEC) is hosting a virtual graduate fair on Oct 6, 2022. Students attending the event will be able to meet faculty, admissions experts, and students at Canada’s top graduate engineering schools. If you interested in pursuing graduate studies in Chemical and Biological Engineering, come see the CHBE live booth at […]
Industry Night October 19
UBC Envision, the CHBE Undergrad Council and the Environmental Engineering Student Association invite you to our virtual Engineering for the Environment and Sustainability Industry Night on October 19th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Under the mentorship of Solaris in 2020, a Capstone group designed a small-scale Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) plant in parallel to Solaris […]
Jane Hill Elected Chair of International Association of Breath Research
Chemical & Biological Engineering Professor and Canada Research Chair in Breath Science and Technology (Tier 1), Jane Hill, has been elected incoming Chair of the International Association of Breath Research (IABR). The IABR was established in 2005 and has members from around the world. The IABR organizes conferences, meetings, and works closely with the Journal […]
Seminar August 31st – Dr. Paul Stuart
Presented by: UBC BioProducts Institute Time & Date: Wednesday, August 31st from 12:30pm – 1:30pm PDT Location: CHBE 202, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver 2022 is not 2010: Important Trends and Creating Competitive Advantage in the Forest Bioeconomy Abstract Canada has significant inventories of forest biomass, and with this, an opportunity to develop the bioeconomy in […]