Hey, everyone, I also receive the offer from ECE at UBC, and the GRA is also 18k per year.
In my case, looks like I have only less than 10k per year (after tuition). And I'm wondering if other kind of fundings, e.g., fellowship is automatically considered by the dept committee, or should be nominated by the supervisor (I've other two offers where the fellowship was nominated by the supervisor).
BTW, @Oawad: shouldn't the internal intuition be 8k+? http://www.ece.ubc.ca/academic-programs/graduate/programs/masters-applied-science And I don't quite understand why the tution is 5k?