Department News

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.

With the addition of the Cybersecurity program to the ECEn department, it’s exciting to see how our department’s reach is growing internationally.

There’s Jack O’ Lanterns, there’s costumes, and there’s… hacking?

Ranging from automated farming robotics to a clothing-swap app, the SIOY is proving to be the center of student innovation here at BYU. Even halfway through the fall semester, students are preparing now for the final competition in the spring.

A group of innovative BYU students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department found a way to etch the entire text of The Book of Mormon onto a thin silicon disc (called a wafer in the electronics world) that can fit in the palm of your hand.

Accompanying the 2022 STEM fair in student recruitment opportunities, the annual recruitment dinner for BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering students was also recently held. Students, faculty, and employers alike met in the Wilkinson Center to make connections and assist the students of this department in finding career opportunities.