UBC-Okanagan student wins $5,000 grant for new research centre

A third-year engineering student at UBC-Okanagan has won a $5,000 grant to establish a new campus research lab.

Emily Landry is spearheading a work space for electronic prototyping called the McNaughton Learning Resources Centre.

Landry says the Centre will give electrical engineering students the space to prototype electronics that they create themselves and provide them with the resources for design projects and engineering competitions.

"Learning should be driven by curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown," Landry said. "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."

The funding consists of $3,750 from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Canadian Foundation’s McNaughton Learning Resource Centre Grant program and $1,250 from the School of Engineering’s Engineering Professional Academic Fund.