Dear friends in CHBE and UBC,
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and an awesome Year 2016!
Best wishes,
Jun, President of CHBE Graduate Student Council 2015/2016
Taken from http://howtonestforless.com/2013/12/24/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-free-printable/
Dear all graduate students, faculty and staff members of CHBE,
you are invited to the annual CHBE Christmas Lunch Party!
This year we are doing the event in the Saint John College Dining Hall!
The event details are:
Date and Time: December 9, 2015 at 12:30PM – 3:00PM
Location: Saint John College, van der Linden Dining Hall, 2111 Lower Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Ticket price: $5
Please RSVP by emailing jslee@chbe.ubc.ca and sayakar@chbe.ubc.ca.
The event will start with all the participants dining together. Then we will have a quick networking session where grad students and faculty and will be asked to will be asked to rotate tables every 15 minutes. For faculty and staff, there is no cost to attend and all registered participants will receive the Classic Canadian Turkey meal.
Please state if you like a vegeterian meal.
It is a great chance for graduate students to get to know more about the CHBE faculty and staff members.
Dear friends,
I wish to officially announce the executive members of CHBE Graduate Student Club. I hope we will have an engaging year ahead.
2015/2016 Executive members:
President: Jun Sian Lee
Secretary: Lucie Solnickova
VP Communications and TA union rep: Sonal Ayakar
VP Fundraising: Robertus Dhewangga
VPs Academic: Vasiliy Triandafilidi (GSS Councillor of CHBE) & Shiva
VP Social: Aigerim Ongalbayeva
VPs Sports: Majid Al Amoudi & Fuhar Dixit
Committee members: Long Bill Cheng, Chen Zhao, Majid Keshavarzfathy, Roza Ghaemi
MEng/MEL Rep: Lius Daniel
Undergrad Liason: Frank Nkansah
Grad Lounge Manager: (Saad) Mohammad Dara & Sean Mcbeath
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Jun Sian Lee
President | Chemical & Biological Engineering Graduate Student Club Committee 2015/2016
Message from Max Yu Wang, President of CHBE GSC 2014/2015, chair of election committee.
Made by Sonal Ayakar, VP Communications
Dear friends:
As the school term approaches its end, we invite you to come to GSC 2015’s election for a new president on April 27th at 12:30 pm. During the election, a BBQ and a drink will be provided to you.
The new president will have the entire May to form his/her executive team.
If you want to nominate yourself for the position, please notify me via email (ywang@chbe.ubc.ca) before April 20th. The candidates are required to participate in the organization of the BBQ and talk to other graduate students during the BBQ till the election is done.
Sincerely yours,
Yu Wang
Message from Frances Torrey Sirdevan, Vice-President of Sponsorship AIChE Pacific Northwest 2015
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is an organization made up of Chemical Engineering students, for Chemical Engineering students. On April 17th-19th, 2015, CHBE will be hosting AIChE’s Pacific North-west regional conference. Undergraduate student leaders from across the Pacific Northwestern region of the US and Canada will gather to Connect the Dots of their past and present learning experiences in efforts to build sustainable, bright futures.
Throughout the conference, we will be hosting four exciting competitions: 1. Chem-E-Car 2. Paper presentation 3. Poster Presentation 4. Chem-E-Jeopardy We are looking for graduate students who would be interested in judging our competitions and being involved with our conference on either/both April 18th and April 19th, 2015.
Please contact us if you are interested: Torrey Sirdevan Vice-President of Sponsorship AIChE Pacific Northwest 2015. ftssirdevan@gmail.com.
Message from the department of UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering
If you are traveling abroad for a conference, research, studies please take a minute to register with the UBC Student Safety Abroad Registry. In the event of an emergency, such as a natural disaster, UBC will help coordinate your return home. For more information, please refer to this link:
The link to complete the UBC Student Safety Abroad Registry is on the right hand side of the page, under the picture.
Winners of APSC Grad Research Showcase
On March 3rd, 2015, as a recognition to the winners, top department presenters for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) gathered at Kaiser
2020/2030 for the faculty of ASPC Grad Research Showcase – Peek into the World of Grad Research. The event showcased the winners’ presentations.
All Engineering graduate students, faculty and staff were invited to encourage and celebrate the students as they prepare for the next stage in the competition – the UBC semi-final on March 10th.
To simulate the actual 3MT competition, three commmunication experts:
Lou Corpuz-bosshart , Media Relations Specialist (UBC Public Affairs), Margaret Doyle, Digital Storyteller (UBC Brand/Marketing), Julie Ovenell, Director, Communications & Marketing (UBC VPRI) were invited to judge and to provide comments.
Jeanette Leeuwner from Chemical & Biological Engineering won the first prize with her presentation, entitled “Engineering fuel cells for the future”. The runners up are Tim Rogers and Samantha Grist from Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Amir Shoolestani from Civil Engineering.
The next step is the UBC wide semi-finals on Mar 10!
Hope you can join us in supporting Jeanette this Tuesday.
3MT is an UBC competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective presentation and communication skills by presenting in just three minutes the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience.
Similar article is posted on the official CHBE website: http://www.chbe.ubc.ca/2015/03/06/apsc-3mt-winner-is-chbe-student-jeanette-leeuwner/
Message of Shiva Madadkhani, VP Academic of CHBE GSC
Greetings from the CHBE Graduate Students Club,
We are pleased to announce that the Professional Development Seminar Series is back! Our first speaker of the year will be Dr. Vikram Yadav. He joined the department as an assistant professor last summer and will be talking about his journey in the academia.
The emphasis of the seminar will be on answering graduate students’ questions. So don’t be shy to bring your burning questions to the session!
We look forward to seeing you on March 11 at 3:00 pm in CHBE 202.
Seminar information:
Title: My experiences as a young academician
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Place: CHBE 2.02
Professional development speaker series:
In this monthly seminar series, successful professionals such as faculty members and/or alumni of CHBE department share the stories of their career paths including making important career decisions. These highly interactive seminars provide an excellent opportunity to hear and learn from instructing and exciting experiences of the speakers. We believe these seminars are beneficial for graduate students in developing the skills necessary for professional work environment in academia/industry.
We are having a special Coffee Social on next Friday January 30, 2015.
UBC Graduate Student Society (GSS) executives will be bringing snack and CHBE GSC committee members will be there to make coffee!
Event details taken from GSS Event Page:
GSS Coffee Social in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Date: Friday, January 30, 2015
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Room 2.12, CHBE Building (2360 East Mall, V6T 1Z3)
The GSS Coffee Social is back! And this time, we hang out with the folks in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Come to unwind or take a break from your class, research or thesis projects. See you there!
GSS Event Page: http://gss.ubc.ca/main/event/coffee-social-2015-february/
Created by Lucie Solnickova, committee member of CHBE GSC
Photo Credit: UBC GSS
The CHBE Grad Club wishes everyone a Happy New Year 2015!
May all the New Year wishes come true!
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