Thank you, Daniel Family Foundation!

UBC Chem-E-Car is pleased to announce that we have received a very generous donation from the Daniel Family Foundation. The Daniel Family Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that supports Canadian charitable causes including basic scientific research, cancer care and renewable energy among other groups.

The funds will be used to expand the team’s activities related to research, outreach and experiments on renewable energy. To accommodate our growing membership, we intend to compete with two cars in the 2016-2017 AIChE Regionals next year instead of just one. Our team is also looking into constructing rechargeable batteries to replace our current primary cells, both as a standalone project and a power source for our new cars.

UBC Chem-E-Car would like to extend our special thanks for the Foundation’s outstanding support for UBC students and their generous investment in our professional and personal development. We recognize the Daniel Family Foundation as our Exclusive Diamond Sponsor.

Summer Activities – Mini Maker Faire & More!

Hello folks, Happy Canada Day! If you haven’t realized, we’re already halfway through the Summer term :O

Figure 1 – From Left: Andy, Siang, Thanos, Clement, Ngai To and Solomon at the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2016

June has been a really exciting month for us this year. Earlier in the month, we joined the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire this year as an exhibitor. It was a lot of fun talking to the public about zinc-air batteries, the Chem-E-Car competition and sharing our experience in UBC Engineering with high school students and their parents. We also had the chance to look at all the other cool and interesting stuff that the other Makers brought along including 3D printers, model train sets and science demonstrations. Definitely a great event, we’ll be back next year!

Figure 2: Talking to our guests at the IEEE PEDG 2016 Conference about renewable energy and Chem-E-Car

We were also invited by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) to present at the IEEE PEDG 2016 Networking Session as student team demonstrators on June 28th 2016. We had a great time sharing our thoughts on renewable energy, learning from the conference attendees (many of whom were UBC alumni) and talking to them about our plans for the upcoming Chem-E-Car competition.

Figure 3: Kyle Como – Mechanical Lead 2016/2017 in our workshop

On that same day, we were also invited to a luncheon with the President of IMechE, Jon Hilton, who visited UBC for a campus tour and wanted to meet with the student engineering teams. Kyle, 3rd year MECH student and 2016/2017 Mechanical Team Lead represented UBC Chem-E-Car for this event and he really enjoyed the lunch and networking session.

 

On the administrative side, we got some exciting news from the APSC Development Office. Our team received a very, very generous donation from a philanthropic foundation, more about that in our next blog post. Stay tuned!