Engineering has arrived

UNBC sees first Engineering students

Oct 31, 2019 | 2:23 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – UNBC received its first cohort of Engineering students, less than two years after it was first announced. One of the Civil Engineering students is Sasha Gajic, a graduate of Prince George Secondary School. He says he always wanted to get into Engineering program, and was over the moon when he heard the news about the new program at UNBC.

“It got me so excited. Before that, you always had to leave. You could do the environmental here, but it was always ‘If you want Engineering, you have to go somewhere else.’ And being here, it gives you that little cushion of being at home,” says Gajic. “Smaller classes, too. It makes the transition [from high school] a lot easier.”

UNBC is no stranger to Engineering. Two Masters programs in Wood Engineering have been offered out of the Wood Innovation and Design Centre since September 2015.

“Often, wood engineering is sort of left as the after effect,” says Dr. Dan Ryan, Vice President of Academics at UNBC. “So what we would like to see is some of that expertise and knowledge we have in wood engineering move down into the undergraduate program so our Engineering students have an opportunity to learn about wood engineering in their undergraduate degree rather than waiting until their Master’s degree.”