Department News

Christopher Kitras and Ashton Palacios, two BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students, designed and developed a seven-segment sign alongside Dinah Bronson and Dr. Phil Lundrigan that was recently featured at PyCon. The system can run video games such as Doom and classic arcade games and even display videos.

Unleash your innovative side with this unique opportunity to learn! BYU’s STEM camp offers a unique hands-on experience to learning the basics of building and programming something from scratch. The program is one week long, and is for students entering 10th and 11th grade. The projects students will be working on range from biology to mechanical engineering to building robots. This year, we have two exciting new projects designed by members of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Last week, Sharisse Poff and Daniel Tebbs, working with Dr. Chiang and Dr. Davis, were awarded first place in the Engineering track at the i-ETC conference for their paper titled "Pulsatile Impedance Monitoring Circuit.” Each year, the Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC) is held at a participating university, this year being at BYU. Sharisse and Daniel are both graduate students at BYU studying electrical engineering who share a passion for biomedical applications of engineering.

Dr. Michael Rice, a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for over three decades, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2023 IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS) Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his exceptional leadership and remarkable contributions to the field.

Hosted by IEEE, the BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department recently held their biannual department picnic, commemorating the end of the Winter Semester. Faculty, students, and staff were all welcomed to the event at Kiwanis Park.

As the current Project Engineer in the Radio Astronomy Systems Laboratory, we’re excited to publish this month’s spotlight on graduate student Mitch Burnett!

No more shady landlords. No more unfair housing contracts. BYU Capstone Graduates recently launched a website that is turning these statements into reality.

We welcome Jay Snell, our newest Associate Professor.

Hosted in Hong Kong, China, this year’s Field Programmable Technology Conference awarded BYU’s team win the Best Paper Award. Held annually, the FPT Conference is the primary conference in the Asia-Pacific region focused on field-programmable technologies.

New artificial intelligence technology being developed by engineers at Brigham Young University could significantly cut down on the time and cost that goes into film study for Super Bowl-bound teams (and all NFL and college football teams), while also enhancing game strategy by harnessing the power of big data.

The term “microfluidic” is used to describe a channel or fluid portal with fluid passages dimensioned less than 100 micrometers. To put this metric to scale, 100 micrometers is exactly a tenth of a millimeter.

After placing second in their region and ranking in the top 15 teams nationally, five members of BYU’s Cybersecurity program traveled to Rochester, NY to compete in an RIT-sponsored ethical hacking tournament.

ECE Master's student, Kayla Lyman, was recognized for her (electromagnetic) spectrum contributions by the National Spectrum Consortium last month; she was awarded the Women in Spectrum Scholarship.

A new study comparing observations of large Antarctic icebergs from the 1700s with modern satellite datasets shows the massive icebergs are found in the same areas where they were pinpointed three centuries ago. The study shows that despite their rudimentary tools, the old explorers truly knew their craft, and it confirms that the icebergs have behaved consistently for more than 300 years.

Just days into Fall semester, students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program were thrown quite the challenge. Each semester, ECE students are given a chance to enter the Autonomous Robotics Challenge (ARC).

In the fourth year of his Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD, Morteza Shoushtari (picture on the right) recently received the best paper award at the annual International Telemetry Conference (ITC). He was awarded due to his extensive research and innovative solutions for the telemetry industry.

Earlier this month, the 2022 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Convention was held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Taking place annually, it is the largest gathering of Hispanic STEM students and professionals. Founded in 1974, SHPE has worked for almost 50 years to support people of Hispanic backgrounds in joining the engineering force. One of the students in the BYU SHPE club described it as a “giant career fair.”

Coming from South Carolina, we welcome Dr. Ben Schooley to the Electrical and Computer Engineering department! Dr. Schooley’s experience at BYU isn’t just starting this year, however. His career started here in Provo, when he received his undergraduate degree at BYU.