The Department of Mechanical Engineering has collaborated with a number of universities from the Asia Pacific region. See below for a list of professors and their projects in the region.
- Professor Clarence deSilva collaborates on Mechatronics research with faculty and students at the National University of Singapore, the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, the Open University of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, and Xiamen University in China.
- Professor Yusuf Altintas receives CNC machining centers valued at $120,000/year from Mori Seiki Japan through their non-profit foundation (Machine Tool Technology Research Foundation- San Francisco USA). He receives cutting tools from Mitsubishi Materials of Japan (valued at $10K/year). He has research contracts and collaboration with Hitachi Production Engineering Research Laboratory (Yokohoma, Japan). He is a Fellow of Tokyo University and has academic and engineering collaborations with the universities (Kyoto, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka) and companies (Makino, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, JTEK, Alpha Aikoku, NTN, Honda, Daisawa, SNK, Mitsubishi Materials, IHI, etc.) that licensed the technology developed at Professor Altintas’s laboratory at UBC. He is also co-supervising Ph.D. students from :
- Beihang University, Beijing
- Xian Jiatong University
- National University of Defense Technology
(The above receive scholarships from China, but study their Ph.Ds in Professor Altintas’s laboratory as visiting researchers) - Korea KAIST (2 Postdoctoral Fellows have been sent and they covered the fellowships)
- Professor Xiaodong Lu is sponsored by Okamoto, a Japanese machine tool builder, to design high performance precision machines to manufacture the next-generation of 450mm diameter semiconductor wafers. He receives approximately $90,000/year from Okamoto.
- Professor Srikanth Phani conducts collaborative research with faculty and students in two departments of Aerospace Engineering: in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. The research involves the dynamic response of lightweight structures.
For more information on research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, please visit their website at http://mech.ubc.ca/research/.
