Lab Co-ordinator, PhD Student, Lecturer
EME 1212
bryn.crawford@ubc.ca
Biography
I began my engineering career in Adelaide, Australia. At The University of Adelaide, I studied Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, obtaining my honours degree in 2010, with a Capstone project focusing on the design and construction of a catapult-launched maritime UAV for sonobuoy deployment. I then completed a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 and migrated to Canada. I have worked as a quality and optimization engineer in a major Australian steel rolling mill, as a design engineer for resonance-based pile driving systems, a project manager for a pressure vessel manufacturer in the oil and gas industry. I joined the Composites Research Network – Okanagan node in 2012 as a Research Engineer and worked in that capacity for four years, also obtaining my P.Eng designation. I have since returned to student status to obtain my PhD, while also managing much of the laboratory research capacity, being a Lecturer in the School of Engineering faculty, and also developing my business goals in the region.
Education
- B.Eng Aerospace and Mechanical (honours) – Adelaide University, Australia
- M.Eng Mechanical – Adelaide University, Australia
- PhD Mechanical (ongoing) – University of British Columbia
Research Interests
- Composite Materials and Processing
- Bayesian Networks and other probabilistic methods
- Multidisciplinary engineering and project management