UBC Smart City
We Are Recruiting!
Applications for the 22/23 academic year opens on August 26th! In the next 20 days, the application link can be found here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9tokzWr1Jy3yVzE Interview offers will be sent on a rolling basis.
Annual Report 2021 – 2022
And that brings us to the close of year two! The UBC Smart City team is excited to present our accomplishments of the past year. Read our annual report at the link below.
1st Place at National ASCE Blue Sky Innovation Contest
We are excited to announce that our transportation team won first place 2021 National ASCE Blue Sky Innovation Contest! Our solution was presented at the ASCE Convention in October 2021. Congratulations to our team members Joshua, Aliya, Mohit, Valentina, Michelle, Thien, Ben, and Parsa!
Annual Report 2020-2021
Our team has just wrapped the year and is proud to present our year in review. Please find the report embedded below. You may also find the report in our archives, and on social media!
1st Place At Regional ASCE Ble Sky Innovation Contest
We are pleased to announce that our Transportation team has won first place at the ASCE’s Regional Blue Sky Innovation Contest hosted by Brigham Young University (BYU) at the Rocky Mountain Conference. Our team will be competing nationally in the United States at the ASCE Convention in October. Congratulations to our team members Joshua, Aliya, […]
Executive Recruitment 2021-2022
As our inaugural year as a student team winds down, we are looking towards the future and preparing for our sophomore year. This begins with recruitment for our 2021-2022 Executive Team. Do you want to apply information technology to urban design projects and attend some awesome competitions? Or do you want to help bridge the […]
Guest Speaker
Happy March everyone! This Sunday UBC Smart City was pleased to have Mr. Chris Sainsbury National Lead for Smart Cities at KPMG Canada come in and give us a wonderful presentation on smart cities in practice. Chris gave us multiple mini presentations on a range of ‘smart’ technologies that are transforming how we live and […]
Happy New Year & Contest Updates
Happy New Year! We at UBC Smart City would like to wish all a happy and wonderful 2021. With a new year comes new challenges and we are excited to provide an update on the two contests that we are currently participating in. The first contest is the World’s Challenge Challenge, hosted by the UBC […]
Panelists at the Future of Infrastructure Conference
Our team is pleased to have sent Parsa Shani and Ben Corbett as panelists to Infraday Pacific Northwest’s Future of Infrastructure conference where they sat down with local, regional, and national leaders in infrastructure to discuss emerging opportunities in both the public and private realms of infrastructure project delivery. Parsa and Ben were the most […]
Results from MIT EnergyHack
We are excited to announce that our Energy Team has won the “Most Out Of the Box” theme challenge and placing as the runner up in the ChargePoint challenge statement! They were 1 of 10 teams that competed in this specific challenge and the results can be found here. Our team competed between November 6 […]
Energy Team Selected to Compete in MIT EnergyHack
Happy Halloween! Our Energy Team has applied and have been selected as one of the teams competing in MIT EnergyHack this year! The team, compromising of Fayaz Damani (Lead), Parsa Shani, Sophie Varabioff, and Mustafa Adil, will participate in the main hackathon event happening between November 6 to 8 where they will work to address […]
Warm Welcome to Our New Members!
Join us in welcoming our final new members to UBC Smart City! We have officially concluded recruitment for our inaugural year and are excited what is to come! The second round was just as competitive as the first, which made the selection process just as difficult, so we would like to thank all the applicants […]
