Honeywell representative will explain the safety instruments and devices that can be used in the laboratory.
Everyone is welcome, from CHBE or not!
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Usual Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Usual Location: Room 202
This week’s news came a bit late because I just had a really busy day…
Last night, we had a break-in on the 4th floor CHBE. Two offices were pried open and computer equipment was stolen. Both computers were secured with security cords which were pried off with pliers. Please do not leave any valuables in your offices! If you are leaving a desktop computer in the room, please make sure that you have backed it up and take your backup disk home with you.
Dear CHBE grad students, please register for the Annual CHBE Christmas Party on Dec 11 in Cecil Green Park House through this doodle [http://www.doodle.com/9i8nyatdcc994n8z] before December 6, 2013. No late registration will be allowed. The ticket price is $15 per person, please pay in cash to me (Jun) or Ehsan Beh. For the info on this party, please click HERE.
Topic: Honeywell Safety
Date: December 4, 2013, Wednesday
Time & Venue: 12:00PM to 1:00PM in room 202
This is the department’s last Bring Your Lunch & Learn before Christmas. We will resume with a Due Diligence session in January.
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Porter to be appointed as the New Dean of Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies! Since her appointment as Dean pro tem in April 2011, Dr. Porter has been a strong advocate for graduate student needs at UBC and has championed major fundamental changes to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies which allow it to better serve graduate students. We know she will continue to bring forward exciting changes to graduate studies at UBC. Official News release from grad.ubc.ca HERE.
Free Bellydance Fitness Workshop
Do you want to use bellydance techniques to get fit and toned? Read on!
The GSS Bellydance Fitness Class is designed to sculpt and tone your core, abs, and legs muscles through the practice of essential bellydance moves, body isolation techniques and various types of shimmies.
GSS is pleased to offer you a free workshop!
Monday Dec 9
5:30 to 6:30pm
GSS Ballroom
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Hello everyone from CHBE,
It is almost the end of the term, and CHBE Grad Club is excited to announce this year’s Christmas Party to be held on December 11. The party takes place at UBC’s one of the most attractive locations, Cecil Green Park House! In addition to traditional dinner party, the 90th birthday of Professor Norman Epstein will be celebrated. Your spouse/partner is invited, too. Space is limited; hence please RSVP by filling up this doodle: http://www.doodle.com/9i8nyatdcc994n8z before December 6.
Location: Cecil Green Park House
University of British Columbia,
6251 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
www.cecilgreenpark.ubc.ca
Date: December 11, 2013
Time: 5:30PM-9:30PM
Ticket Price: Early Bird price of $10 will be offered to first 40 people who register! Regular price of $15 will be charged to everyone else. Payment must be made in cash to Jun (CHBE 503) or Ehsan (CHBE 623).
We will keep you updated with the final details of this through the Grad Club blog [ https://blogs.ubc.ca/chbegsc/ ] and Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/chbegsc/ ].
Cheers,
CHBE Graduate Student Club
Hi everyone,
The Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Club is organizing a seminar series where the faculty members of our department share the stories of achieving their first faculty positions as well as making
important career decisions. These highly interactive seminars provide an excellent opportunity to hear instructing, exciting and valuable experiences of our faculty members and can prove very helpful in developing skills necessary for professional work environments in academia and industry.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj as the speaker of the upcoming seminar in the series. Dr. Sokhansanj P.Eng. is a distinguished research and development staff at Oak Ridge National laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is also a Professor emeritus University of Saskatchewan and adjunct Professor University of British Columbia. His expertise is in harvest and post harvest engineering of biomaterials. Dr. Sokhansanj is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering and a Fellow of American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers, and Fellow of Engineers Canada.
For more information about Dr. Sokhansanj please see the attached files and,
http://www.chbe.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/sokhansanj.php
In this presentation, he will share his experiences of a professional career and the challenge to balance research, teaching and personal interests
The seminar information:
Date: November 27, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Place: CHBE 2.02
We hope to see you there.
Thank you,
CHBE GSC
Hello everyone! Here is our weekly news! Winter is coming, so is the flue season, so please stay active and stay healthy!
Break-ins in PPC last weekThere have been several break-ins to buildings on campus over the last week. The PPC was hit and there was a lot of high value items stolen from offices of students and research personnel.
Joanne urged all the members of CHBE to, please check that the door is latched and locked behind you when leaving the building or other buildings after hours,. If there is any issue, please let her know (call, text or email) and/or call security so that the issue can be remedied immediately.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj as the speaker of the upcoming seminar in the series on November 27 at 12:00 PM in room CHBE 2.02.
Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj, P.Eng. is a distinguished research and development staff at Oak Ridge National laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is also a Professor emeritus University of Saskatchewan and adjunct Professor University of British Columbia. Dr. Sokhansanj has developed the Integrated Biomass Supply Analysis & Logistics (IBSAL) modeling environment. The value chain modeling platform is used for design and analysis of biomass feedstock supply in support of the emerging biorefineries in the U.S. and Canada.
To view Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj’s Biography, click HERE.
Doug, our Technical Supervisor, will be off Nov 22nd (Today), 25th (Next Monday), ½ day Dec 20th (Friday), full days Dec 23rd and the 24th 2013. In his absents Marlene Chow will be consulting and supervising shop. You can contact her by e-mail @ (Chow, Marlene Marlene.Chow(at)ubc.ca). Her location is room 173 in stores.
Coffee socials are held every Thursday afternoon from 3pm, at Seedlings Café / the penthouse in the Thea Koerner House.
Thursday November 21 Games Afternoon Christopher Roach, Lili Meng
Thursday November 28 Discussion on GSS Funds Lili Meng
Thursday December 5 Coffee & Cake Yuanyuan Liu, Christopher Roach
Thursday December 12 Christmas social – wear your Christmas sweater!
I really wish my computer can be faster!
If you have any suggestion for what you like to see on our weekly news, please email me at jslee@chbe.ubc.ca or comment on this blog post.
Also please join the CHBE Grad Student Club Facebook Group onhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/chbegsc/ if you are a graduate student or a recent alumni of graduate program of UBC CHBE.
This summary is a bit overdue after the seminar. But here we have it. 🙂
As part of Professional Development Speaker Series, the CHBE Graduate Student Club has successfully arranged the second seminar of the year on October 30th with Professor Madjid Mohseni as the speaker. He completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, and then obtained his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining UBC in November 2000, Dr. Mohseni worked for nearly 3 years as research engineer at Trojan Technologies. He is currently the Scientific Director of RES’EAU-WaterNET Strategic Network, a program dedicated to develop affordable solutions to drinking water challenges of small and rural, and aboriginal communities.
In his presentation, Professor Mohseni urged the students to be clear about their career objectives. One must work hard and there is no shortcut, he said. According to him, one does not know when the opportunity will come and hence it is important to prepare oneself ahead of time not to miss the opportunity. Only right plan and hard work can make it possible.
Professor Mohseni acknowledged the highly supportive role of his PhD supervisor who allowed him to think independently, helped improve his communication skills and supported extracurricular activities. As a new faculty member in the department, he faced many challenges at the beginning. However, his response to those difficulties was extraordinary – he had discovered opportunities in each of these challenges and turned them into his favor.
In addition to scientific knowledge, he has put great emphasis on developing work ethics and soft skills such as communication, interpersonal, leadership and time management skills. Language skill is another important aspect for international students, he opined. Like previous seminars, this one was attended by large number of graduate students including some from other engineering departments.
Hello friends, it is weekly news again. We have reached a new milestone, a two digit index, our 10th weekly news.
I read from Joanne’s email that it might snow this weekend. So better be prepared for it! This link HERE to the CHBE Snow policy PDF! More info:
http://www.hr.ubc.ca/memos/preparing-for-winter-weather-conditions-at-ubc-nov-14-2013/
Seeking Faculty and Staff Volunteers for AMS Safewalk
Safewalk (http://www.ams.ubc.ca/services/safewalk/) is a free service from the AMS that is looking out for UBC Community members’ safety on campus, and operates most nights during the school year with its walking service. Safewalk will send a co-ed pair of walkers to any point on campus and will walk anyone to any point on campus they need to go between 7:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m.
If you are interested in volunteering with Safewalk, please contact:
Brittany Watson
Safewalk Assistant Coordinator
604-822-2181
Swassist1@ams.ubc.ca
Please let her know your availability (day(s) of the week and the evening times you are available to volunteer) as well as your contact information.
Become the GSS Special Events Coordinator!
The GSS is currently looking to start of a new series of events and we need your help to get it off the ground. If you are interested in helping to organize events are a good team player and able to keep deadlines you may want to think about applying.
Deadline: November 20, 2013. More info: http://gss.ubc.ca/main/job-opportunity-become-the-gss-special-event-coordinator/
The worst typhoon of the century hit Philippines a few days ago and some estimated over 10,000 death toll! As the result of food and water scarcity, this number might unfortunately rise in the next few days. I have posted a call for donation in the previous input. The link is below:
http://www.redcross.ca/donate/donate-online/donate-to-the-typhoon-haiyan-fund
Watch this video from youtube about the movement to raise awareness in Men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers; and associated charities. University Affair News Posting on Movember:Here
If you have any suggestion for what you like to see on our weekly news, please email me at jslee@chbe.ubc.ca or comment on this blog post.
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The worst typhoon of the century hit Philippines a few days ago and some estimated over 10,000 death toll! As the result of food and water scarcity, this number might unfortunately rise in the next few days. The unfortunate events after this natural disaster, such as looting/gunfire, and famine, was featured in today’s Metro News. Link here.
According to BBC news, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has declared a state of national calamity to speed relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The news link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24901993
We have a significant number of Filipinos in our department and they might be already affected by this catastrophe. As Philippines is on another side of the world, what we can do is to provide them with financial aids.
Below you can find the related donation address for Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.ca/donate/donate-online/donate-to-the-typhoon-haiyan-fund
Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath (Photo Credit: Metro News)
Safety in the laboratory is of paramount concern. I’m relaying this information from Marlene, our department’s Manager of Technical and Physical Resources.
Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in CHBE labs are:
This month the Safety Committee is evaluating lab PPE compliance in all the labs that CHBE personnel use. Those who have all their required PPE will receive a ticket for a draw at the end of the month. To date, compliance is about 50% which we would like to see improved.
The draw price is a Starbucks Coffee card.
The check will be done at random. So, be prepare and wear all the appropriate PPE in your laboratory.
Hi friends, yesterday, November 11 was the Remembrance Day, a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. [Wikipedia] It happened to also be the US Veteran Day, an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in armed service, also known as veterans. [Wikipedia]
Canadians from coast to coast paused Monday to honour the sacrifices of soldiers who fought in past wars, and the many who serve in modern-day operations and conflicts around the world. [CTVnews]
For most of the graduate students, it might be a day of break from study and research. Some might go home to honor family, friends and relatives that had served in the war.
The picture below summarized very well the essence of Remembrance Day.
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