How To Get An Account
Undergraduate and MEng students
Accounts for undergraduates registered in ECE courses and MEng students are created automatically. To activate your account please log onto https://id.ece.ubc.ca and set your account password.
CPEN 211 students 2025/26, Winter Term 1:
Please note that your ECE accounts are created automatically. Please do not submit an account creation request.
Your account password can be set at https://id.ece.ubc.ca.
If you experience issues with setting your account password, please send an email to it@ece.ubc.ca, describing what you did and what the results were, and include any error messages you may have received.
All Others
Please send an email with subject "Request for ECE account" to it@ece.ubc.ca, with the following information:
- Your full name
- Department or Organization (if not ECE)
- Your student or employee number (if you have both, please provide your student number)
- Name of your supervisor
- Your preferred username
- An email address that you can currently be reached at
- Your affiliation with ECE:
- One of the following: MASC student, PhD student, Postdoc, Faculty, Staff, Coop, Visitor, Other
The use of all department computing resources is subject to UBC's policies, in particular Policy SC14 (Acceptable Use and Security of UBC Electronic Information and Systems).