Mechanical engineering students win prestigious national scholarships

UBC mechanical engineering students won nine scholarships in the recent 2010/2011 National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada scholarship competition with a total value of nearly $360,000.

Four graduate students won NSERC Doctoral scholarships. From mechanical engineering, five students –three current fourth-year undergraduates and two current graduate students— won Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships to support their masters studies.

The students awarded are: Jeffrey Abeysekera, Richard Graetz, Sarah McFaul, Heather Murray, Eric Pospisil, Devin Todd, Irfan Usman, Victor Wang and Susana Zoghbi.

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