Students and alumni of UFV's Engineering Physics Diploma in Mechatronics program were at the university's BCTECH Summit booth this week showing off their involvement in some impressive creations. The RoboWeeder — an autonomous, sustainable, and eco-friendly arm-on-wheels that finds and blasts weeds with microwaves — was one of the projects on display in the Vancouver…

The senior physics lab at UFV is bursting with energy on a Monday afternoon. It’s team time. There’s no formal lecture taking place; this is the time when the students in the Engineering Physics in Mechatronics program work on their group projects. One team of four students is working on a quadcopter, built from scratch…

The next speaker in the UFV President's Leadership Lecture Series is Dr. Derek Harnett, winner of the 2016 UFV Research Excellence Award. Harnett will speak about the most pressing issues facing subatomic physics today, how Canadian physicists plan to address them, and what we might we discover through this research. The Search for Outside-the-Quark-Model Hadrons…

Dr. Jennifer Owen (nee Godfrey) has been part of scientific history, working at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. She visited and/or worked at the CERN facilities continuously over six years as part of her graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, and was there when the…

  Quantum physics might be the last thing on your mind this summer, but it’s been a full-time job for three students and a professor at UFV. And as a result of their hard work and focus, one student is off to London to participate in a prestigious forum hosted by Imperial College London. UFV…

To study particle physics, you have a strong scientific and mathematical background. But you also need a good imagination, because you’ll be spending a lot of time studying things that you cannot see. And that’s okay with Dr. Derek Harnett, a physicist who will be the second speaker in the 2011/12 University Lecture Series at…