Skip to main content Skip to main navigation Skip to page-level navigation Go to the Disability Resource Centre Website Go to the DRC Booking Accommodation Portal Go to the Inclusive Technology Lab Website
The University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
UBC Okanagan News
  • Research
  • People
    • Student Profile
    • Faculty Profile
    • Alumni Spotlight
  • Campus Life
    • Campus News
    • Student Life
    • Teaching & Learning
  • Community Engagement
  • About the Collection
    • Stories for Media
  • UBCO Events
  • Search All Stories
Home / 2011 / January / 05 / Engineering student lands $5,000 grant for new UBC research lab
Teaching & Learning

Engineering student lands $5,000 grant for new UBC research lab

January 5, 2011

Engineering student Emily Landry has acquired funding to create an electronics learning lab at UBC's Okanagan campus.

Student Emily Landry helped secure funding to create an electronics learning lab at UBC's Okanagan campus.

Engineering students at UBC’s Okanagan campus  have received $5,000 to establish a work space for electronic prototyping, which will help advance research at the university.

“The McNaughton Learning Resources Centre will provide electrical engineering students with the capability to tinker with and actually prototype electronics that they create themselves,” says third-year engineering student Emily Landry, who was instrumental in obtaining funding for the project. “It will also facilitate peer-to-peer learning and provide students with resources that help them achieve greater levels of success in curriculum-related design projects and engineering competitions.”

The funding, which goes to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Branch on campus, consists of $3,750 from the IEEE Canadian Foundation’s McNaughton Learning Resource Centre Grant program, and $1,250 from the School of Engineering’s Engineering Professional Academic Fund.

Jonathan Holzman, Engineering Professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, says the Centre is one of many programs Landry has spearheaded, and her efforts in advancing the engineering undergraduate program at UBC have been simply incredible.

“When Emily witnesses a challenge it is typically only a matter of time before she has developed a plan of action and is proceeding with a solution,” he says. “Her incredible drive in overcoming challenges is an inspiration for us all. And we can expect to see some incredibly interesting ideas unfold in this new facility as young minds go to work.”

Originally from Toronto, Landry came to the Okanagan from Edmonton, and says she chose UBC’s Okanagan campus as a place to shape her education.

“I’ve loved the university from the first moment I came here,” says Landry. “There is such an exciting atmosphere and it really feels like, as students, we can contribute and make it into anything we want it to be.

“Learning should be driven by curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown,” she says. “If students are given an outlet to exercise curiosity and apply what is learned in the classroom, it helps develop the ingenuity required as we head out into the world as graduates.”

Currently, Landry is the Applied Science Student Representative on UBC’s Okanagan Senate, representing the engineering student body on matters and policy determined by the Senate. She was recently elected Vice Chair of a new Student IEEE Okanagan chapter.

“The IEEE is the official professional organization for electrical engineers,” says Landry, noting that the chapter is intended to provide a community for electrical engineering students “and give them access to people who are already in the industry. Mentorship is a big part of it.”

As well, Landry is the founding member and former president of the Okanagan campus chapter of Engineers Without Borders, a global organization that helps impoverished communities overseas gain access to sustainable engineering solutions that will raise them out of poverty.

That’s plenty to keep a full-time student busy, however, two years ago Landry also started a peer tutoring program on campus.

After graduation, Landry says, she will put her electrical engineering degree to use to bring positive change.

“I always thought very highly of engineers and how they are able to influence the world,” says Landry. “They create the technology that the world uses, so if you want to change the way the world operates, or our culture, being an engineer gives you a way to do that.”

— 30 —

Media Contact

Jody Jacob
E-mail: Jody.Jacob@ubc.ca

Content type: Media Release
More content from: School of Engineering

Trending Stories

  • Reducing the side effects of cancer therapy
  • Putting community, students and research on the same track
  • Psychedelic mushroom microdoses can improve mood, mental health
  • UBCO’s largest graduating class marks 20 years of growth
  • Made in Canada breakthrough is a gamechanger in heart valve technology
All Stories
Contact Media Relations

About UBC Okanagan

UBC’s Okanagan campus is an innovative hub for research and learning founded in partnership with local Indigenous peoples, the Syilx Okanagan Nation, in whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory the campus resides. The most established and influential global rankings all consistently place UBC in the top five per cent of universities in the world, and among the top three Canadian universities.

The Okanagan campus combines a globally recognized UBC education with a tight-knit and entrepreneurial community that welcomes students and faculty from around the world in British Columbia’s stunning Okanagan Valley. For more visit ok.ubc.ca.

Discover more about UBC Okanagan

Find a Program Admissions Book a Tour UBCO Facts
UBC Okanagan Campus News, University Relations

Innovation Precinct Annexation 1 (IA1)
3505 Spectrum Court
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 2Z1

We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.

 

Search all stories

Subscribe to receive news by email

Visit UBC's Vancouver news room

Global and Admin Messages

News

Okanagan Campus

TikTok icon Linkedin icon

UBC Okanagan News
Okanagan Campus
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Find us on
  
Back to top
The University of British Columbia
  • Emergency Procedures |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Copyright |
  • Accessibility