ECE is active in various university-wide initiatives to engage both alumni and industry members with academic research. Lecture series and student events, Co-op, and Capstone Projects are a few opportunities for past graduates and industry to connect with ECE.
If you are an ECE Alumni and would like to be involved more with the ECE department, we welcome you to reach out to help@ece.ubc.ca to express your interest!
APSC Opportunities
Connect with APSC alumni
Build your network and get started on making those important connections. A lifetime of support and opportunity awaits you!
Get involved with APSC
If you’ve got time and talent to spare, just a few hours a month can make all the difference to a student or fellow alumni.
UBC alumni benefits
Explore career resources, network connections, mentoring opportunities, and discounts on travel, events, products and attractions.
Mentor a Student
Volunteer as a mentor with the UBC Engineering Mentoring Program – share your knowledge and experience with students who are defining their career path, expanding their professional network and developing important professional skills.
As a mentor, you will have the opportunity to support one or two undergraduate and/or graduate engineering students who have similar interests.
You will benefit from the opportunity to give back to the profession by offering insight to a young person starting out in your field while strengthening your own coaching and leadership skills. The program events also offer opportunities for you to network with some of your industry peers in an informal setting.
Stay Connected!
Stay in touch with Electrical and Computer Engineering. Attend events, get in touch, or follow us on social media to stay in the loop.
Featured ECE Alumni News
ECE Alumni Perspectives: Al-Shahna Jamal, Microsoft
“This might all sound obvious, but the simple truth is that forming good habits and time management takes effort and practice.”
Al-Shahna Jamal completed her BAsc and MASc at UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering, graduating in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Today, she’s a software engineer at Microsoft, and living in Seattle. We caught up with her to learn about her direction since her graduation from ECE, and how her time in our department has impacted her career.
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ECE Alumna Sara Badiei Shares her Career Move
“Having children is a pivotal point in one’s career, and finding a way to balance it all is a challenge- at least at first.”
Sara Badiei currently lives in Coquitlam and works as a Business Development Executive at Unity Technologies. After completing her MSc (Engineering) Sara spent several years working in the non-profit sector across the globe before changing course. Read more about how Sara made a significant career move and how she navigates change.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies ECE Alumni Feed
Michel AlSharidah
Public Authority for Applied Education and Training
Assistant Professor
Teaching, research, curriculum development, academic accreditation (ABET), consultations.
Finish fast, don't waste time, and study what you enjoy.
Michael Wrinch
Hedgehog Technologies Inc.
President
My responsibilities as President and Principal Engineer are to manage key accounts, develop the company leadership, conduct strategy and planning with financial analysis, and forecast.
You are not the smartest person. You will never be. Listen to others and admit how little you know. That is your strength.
Mehrdad Fatourechi
BroadbandTV Corp
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
I am currently the CTO of BroadbandTV Corp (BBTV), a leading digital entertainment company in Canada, focusing on building tools to help content creators. In the past few years, I have been mostly responsible for shaping the product vision, strategic product management, strategic program management and innovation management at BBTV. This has led to building a number of ground-breaking products for content creators including our flagship web applications, "VISO Catalyst" and "VISO NOVI". In particular, under my leadership, we've designed and built several patent-pending products including modules to optimize metadata/thumbnails of videos on YouTube, finding collaborators for content creators, tools for discovering and efficiently managing pirated videos and providing easy-to-understand actionable insights for our clients, amongst many others. In order to achieve the above goals, I've built and managed a team of more than 30 bright & talented professionals [researchers, developers (mostly LAMP stack), user experience and user interface designers, QA engineers, IT specialists and product/project/team managers. This hard-working and dedicated team has been working very hard to deliver the maximum value for the business.
Do what you are passionate about and not necessarily what is currently hot in the market or your parents/friends want you to do. Learn to code and figure out what the industry really wants. Look for a company where you feel you will love the culture.
Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Associate Professor
Teaching, research, consultancy, and social work.
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