Our research is changing your world
The University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Engineering is proud to be home to leading research that is providing solutions that benefit consumers, patients, industries and the planet.
UNB Engineering conducts an estimated $17 million per year in research funded by public research councils, government organizations and industrial partners.
Research highlights
Institutes and centres
- The Emera & NB Power Research Centre for Smart Grid Technologies is set to be a global leader in the transformation of electric power systems into smart grids.
- The Institute of Biomedical Engineering was named New Brunswick's Innovation Champion at the Knowledge and Innovation Recognition Awards.
- The Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence is partnered with Irving Shipbuilding and Lockheed Martin; it will be the first research centre in Canada to use 3D metal printing as a method for manufacturing certified, custom parts for the marine sector.
Groundbreaking research and technology
- For 15 years, PanSharp image fusion technology developed by Dr. Yun Zhang has been responsible for Google Earth’s high quality satellite images.
- Technology that could change the face of disaster relief automatically scans satellite images from different vantage points to detect changes to buildings, city landscapes and rural areas following natural disasters.
- The Ocean Mapping Group's research at the Port of Saint John will provide a better understanding the sedimentation, circulation and ecology of the Saint John Harbour.
- UNB and Terrestrial Energy, a vendor of Advanced Reactor power plants, partnered for integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) validation and verification work. They’re measuring the thermal and physical properties of the molten salts that are the heat transfer fluid for the ISMR design.
- Research by Dr. Richard Langley is expected to lead to the development of communication and navigation systems that can take into account conditions during solar storms to ensure safe flights and marine travel in the Arctic regions.
- Dr. Gobinda Saha’s Nanocomposites and Mechanics Laboratory (NCM Lab) is working in the field of advanced materials design, manufacturing, testing/characterization, and modeling to develop innovative solutions to tackle industrial wear and premature material failure facing structural and non-structural components. The work is fundamentally linked with industry needs.
