Club for Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering (CUBE)

Workshop Series - CUBE hosted 9 workshops throughout the academic year. These workshops, attended at full capacity, empowered more than 70 undergraduate students at the university with an opportunity to improve their professional skills through gaining lab experience. Workshops were aimed at improving biomedical engineering wet lab skills, such as performing and analyzing data gathered from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments, and showed students how to perform basic cell culture maintenance. Dry labs also focused on SolidWorks Modelling tools and AI Tumour Detection.

Canadian Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Conference - In January 2025, CUBE hosted the Toronto conference location, collaborating with the CUBEC non-profit, McGill University, University of Calgary, and University of British Columbia. The day brought together over 100 students from over four Ontario universities. The day consisted of academic, industry, and entrepreneurship panels, as well as technical workshops hosted by event industry sponsors. Over 20 Toronto biomedical researchers and professionals were in attendance for the panels and industry networking event, and watched the national case competition that took place across all four conference locations.

“The NeuroHack” - A series of educational workshops, panels, and final hackathon around the theme of Neuroengineering. In January 2025 the series kicked off with a “Prosthetic Arm Circuit Design” workshop in collaboration with NeuroTech UofT. This workshop had over 200 signups and was filled to capacity. The evening involved building a circuit and putting together a 3D printed prosthetic arm. In February 2025, CUBE hosted a “Careers in Neurotechnology” in collaboration with iGEM Toronto. The panel featured five Toronto biomedical researchers from Sunnybrook Research Institute, Epineuron, and UHN, and focused on their career journeys through biomedical research. The series culminated in February 2025 with the Neurotech hackathon, a two-day annual competition hosted by CUBE. Over 100 students applied their technical knowledge to neurological problem statements, and were mentored and evaluated by over 20 biomedical researchers. Over the weekend, hackers were invited to three technical workshops to support their projects: Microcontrollers, 3D Modelling with Fusion360, and AI, hosted by subject matter experts.