Tuesday, September 7, 2010

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Returning and Transfer Students Schedule

Instructions for Imagine Day Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate and Graduate students are invited to visit the various research facilities in the Department. This is a unique opportunity to see what happens beyond the classroom at a University. Visit Club Mech (CEME 2207) between 9:30 AM to 11:30 PM on September 8 to pick up printed copies of the Scavenger Hunt List, your lunch ticket and to sign the attendance sheet. Please be prepared to present your Student ID. Note that copies of the attendance record will be distributed to Term One professors. A free BBQ lunch will be provided between Hugh Dempster Pavilion and ICICS (in front of ReBoot Café). A vegetarian option will be available.

Imagine Day

Information Package

Time Activity

9:30 - 11:30 Sign in and lunch ticket pick up

10:00 - 12:00 IMAGINE Lab Tour and Scavenger Hunt

10:15 - 11:00 Meet the Dean (for Transfer Students) Thunderbird Arena

12:00 – 1:30 Welcome Back BBQ, In Between Hugh Dempster Pavilion and ICICS (in front of ReBoot Cafe)

2:00 - 3:00 Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CEME 1212)

3:00 - 4:00 Grad School Information Session (CEME 1212)

2:00 - 5:00 Main Event Carnival

Imagine UBC culminates with the Main Event Carnival, which showcases UBC’s clubs, resources, ser-vices and undergraduate societies. It is an event for the entire campus community including new-to-UBC and returning students, faculty and staff. Over 250 groups will set up booths and activities along Main Mall to welcome students for the year and showcase the many opportunities for involvement and support at UBC. On the Main Event Carnival stage, more than a dozen clubs will show off their talents, and stu-dents can come bounce around at the AMS First Week bouncy castle.

List of Open Labs 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Room Lab Map No. CEME 1051 Biomechanics 1 CEME 1050 Micromachining-Metrology labs 1 (ICICS) CICSR 092

Bio-REL 2

ICICS X015 CEL (Control Engineering Lab) 2 ICICS X015 CARIS (Collaborative Advanced Robotics

and Intelligent Systems Lab) 2

ICICS 061C and 061D

Industrial Automation Laboratory 2

ICICS X027 MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Lab)

2

Kaiser Precision Mechatronics Lab 3

PPC 308 Applied Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (only 4 students at a time)

4

PPC 313 Pulp and Paper Research Center 4 PPC Entrance

Engineering Co-op Office 4

RH 123G Complex Fluids Labs 5 RH 121 Renewable Resources 5 CHBE 623 Polymer Rheology 6 AMPEL 146 Multi-Scale Design Laboratory 7

Lab Descriptions Biomechanics Computer-assisted joint replacement, computer-

assisted fracture repair, visualization and registration using ultrasound to avoid use of ionizing radiation, braced robotics, design and evaluation of surgical de-vices, surgical ergonomics, neuromotor control of the eye, development and testing of devices for people with movement disabilities.

Micromachining Metrology Labs Chatter stability of machining operations, virtual ma-

chining process modeling, simulation and optimiza-tion, trajectory generation and motion control of high speed machine tools, dynamics of high speed spin-dles, precision machining, micro-machining, and sen-sors and actuators for machine tool testing and moni-toring.

Bio-REL New methods to increase occupant safety through

increased vehicle crashworthiness and proper user operation and the development of the UBC powered upper limb orthosis for people with loss of upper limb motor function

Control Engineering Lab Multiple robust controller design for hard disk

drives. Uncertainty modeling based on non-linear principal component analysis. State observer based closed loop control of air-fuel ratio in spark ignition automotive engine

CARIS Research and development of novel methods for industrial and assistive robotics applications aimed at bringing safe, friendly, and effective ro-bot assistance into our daily lives.

IAL Design, development and application of ad-

vanced technologies for industrial automation, with emphasis on mechatronics, cooperative ro-botics, machine vision, intelligent control, ma-chine monitoring, and instrumentation including sensing and actuation.

Precision Mechatronics Ultra-fast tool servos for diamond turning, en-

coder self-calibration, precision spindles, high-speed real-times computer, multiple D.O.F. elec-tromagnetic actuators, and precision motion sys-tems.

MEMS We pursue research in a wide range of areas in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics. We develop microflow control strategies, investigate flow physics of complex microflows, as well as microflow characterization methods. We also work on microoptical devices, sensing technology, biomedical microdevices and fabrication techniques for microelectrome-chanical structures.

Applied Fluid Mechanics Experimental Study of Flow through Forming

Fabric Pulp and Paper Research Center Fluid mechanics as it applies to the pulp and pa-

per industry. Engineering Co-op Office Talk to the Mechanical Co-op Advisors and learn

how co-op can enhance your engineering educa-tion.

Complex Fluids Lab Using theory and computations to understand

problems in which nonlinearities and multiple length scales give rise to complex behaviour. The problems bring together ideas and theory from a variety of disciplines in science and engi-neering.

Renewable Resources The Renewable Resources Laboratory conducts

high-quality research focusing on novel meas-urement technologies and sensor design.

Polymer Rheology We apply shear stress on different materials and

by measuring their resistance in front of applied force or shear we can find different property of those materials.

Multi-Scale Design Laboratory We apply design expertise from mechanical en-

gineering and electrical engineering, as well as fabrication techniques spanning from micro to macro length-scales to develop enabling tech-nologies in medicine and biology.

Maps