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Collaborative Expertise for Innovative Solutions

The science and research behind materials and manufacturing continue to evolve around the globe to such an extent that new discoveries and innovations have now become a common-place everyday occurrence in many technological sectors. Today’s research in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing is all about making value-added products that are lighter, stronger, smarter, more durable and energy efficient, while minimizing environmental impacts and production costs. A key challenge, however, is to gain insight into what system-level multidisciplinary approaches can intelligently integrate emerging materials with emerging manufacturing technologies to get innovative products to market more rapidly and efficiently.

The Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) builds on the existing expertise, world-class facilities and centers at UBC and creates new multidisciplinary teams that conduct high-quality, high-impact research at the interface of basic and applied sciences, while closely supporting partnerships with industry and government as well as other research institutions. Made up of five clusters, participating researchers collaborate in the areas of aerospace and transportation, building and construction, biomedical and biological, electromagnetic and nanoscale, polymer and natural materials and manufacturing. Our basic and applied research under each cluster are pursued in parallel, but linked by a common thread which is, once integrated they significantly contribute to the economic prosperity and social well-being of communities and individuals.


Spotlight

NSERC CREATE in product design for human comfort awarded to UBCO

ACE launches new circular economy micro-credential course

Government invests in UBC’s circular economy initiative

NSERC CREATE in immersive technologies awarded to UBCO


Research Stories

MMRI-affiliated start-up makes a splash at Collision Conference
VanTech Med is developing Intelligent companion robots for older adults.

2024 MMRI Circular Economy Symposium Held at UBCO

MMRI members offer a tutorial on machine learning at SAMPE 2023
When Data-efficient Machine Learning Comes to the Rescue: An AI-based Optimization Framework for Advanced Manufacturing.


Publication Feed

Seismic performance-based design and risk analysis of thermal power plant building
Engineering Structures

Simultaneous displacement and force self-sensing of piezoelectric actuators
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

Coupling strength of dangling bonds on hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces
The Journal of Chemical Physics

A deformable x-ray CT polymer gel dosimetry system
Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2018

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Faculty of Applied Science, School of Engineering
EME 2131, 1137 Alumni Avenue
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
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