Rehabilitation Engineering Design

Welcome to BCIT Rehabilitation Engineering Design.

Our multi faceted research team develops innovative solutions that improve and expand activities of daily living and community participation for people with disabilities.

We work with a diverse, inter-disciplinary, collaborative network of researchers (rehabilitation engineers, occupational therapists, mechanical engineers, human kinetics, and more), as well as industry, other post-secondary’s institutions and community partners.

Rehabilitation Engineering Design is championed by Dr. Jaimie Borisoff, Director MAKE+ and former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design, and his team of research experts.

Student spotlight: Meet BCIT Applied Research student Marcus Fu

Marcus Fu is a third-year BCIT Electrical Engineering student working with the Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART) helping build digital twins and model energy systems. He first joined SMART...

BCIT research advances accessible EV charging for all

Public EV charging infrastructure is expanding rapidly, faster than design standards can keep up. Surging demand for EV’s has led to stations being installed at an unprecedented pace with Canada’s public...

BCIT researcher spotlight: Meet Dr. Moein Manbachi

Dr. Moein Manbachi is a Project Leader with the BCIT Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART), where he advances applied research in critical energy infrastructure cybersecurity and digital twin technologies....

BCIT SMART recipient of 2025 National Cybersecurity Consortium Funding for cybersecurity project

CANADA, OCTOBER 28, 2025 – The National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC) has announced a slate of successful project applications as part of its second annual Call for Proposals. BCIT Smart Microgrid...

BCIT researcher spotlight: Meet Fardin Barekat

Fardin Barekat joined the MAKE+ applied research team at the BCIT Centre for Applied Research and Innovation (CARI) in 2022. Since then, Fardin has been transforming ideas into real-world solutions...

Contact Us

Jaimie Borisoff
Director, MAKE+
BCIT Centre for Applied Research & Innovation
4355 Mathissi Place
Burnaby, BC V5G 4S8