Department News
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Farah Arabian Awarded Best Student Paper
Farah Arabian, an Electrical Engineering PhD student studying Telecommunications, was awarded Best Student Paper for her research paper submission at the International Telemetry Conference in Phoenix on November 7, 2018.
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Department Welcomes New Professor
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is excited to welcome Professor Phil Lundrigan to the program. Hired in November, Professor Lundrigan will be teaching classes and conducting research surrounding Internet of Things, or IoT, which is basically any device or object that connects to the internet. His new course, Introduction to Wireless Networking, will teach graduate students about wireless networking.
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Students and Faculty Complete Radiation Testing of FPGA Circuits
Dr. Mike Wirthlin, Dr. Jeff Goeders, and a team of ECEn students recently returned from Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico where they tested circuits they have been developing. The purpose of their study is to develop circuits that can tolerate radiation. The results of their experiments will soon be submitted for publishing.
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New Tools, New Possiblities
Current microfluidics technology suffers from the slow and error-prone process used to create the chips within a cleanroom. Dr. Greg Nordin, a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University, has spent thirty years developing new technologies based on micro- and nanofabrication processes. He loves the challenge of creating new capabilities to benefit our everyday lives. For the past fifteen years he has focused on inventing devices for health-related diagnostics and research, recently culminating in creating a 3D printer and related new materials specifically designed to fabricate medical diagnostic laboratories on tiny chips. This new 3D printer allows engineers to create chips for microfluidics in a fraction of the time, reliably, safely, and more consistently than ever before. Watch as Dr. Nordin explains this new technology here on TEDxBYU.
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ECEn 485 Lab Goes Wireless for the First Time!
The final laboratory assignment in ECEn 485 (Introduction to Digital Communications) went "over the air" for the first time at the end of Winter Semester 2018. "The availability of inexpensive software defined radios (SDRs) was the enabler here," explained Prof. Michael Rice, the professor who developed and taught the material.
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Doctor Brent Nelson Returns from Sabbatical in London
Doctor Brent Nelson, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, recently returned from a sabbatical in London, where he conducted research, developed his courses, and visited various sites around Europe.
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Dr. Brian Jeffs and Dr. Karl Warnick published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Drs. Jeffs and Warnick proposed a new algorithm to eliminate 'spectral scooping' interference in radio astronomy.
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Come learn about a new program in ECE!
Honors@ece will combine project-based learning with real world applications, undergraduate research, entrepreneurship experience, and senior project course credit, as well as periodic informal gatherings, networking, leadership opportunities, service and outreach, and joint activities with other societies like Women in Engineering (WE). You do not need to be enrolled in the BYU Honors program to participate, but the program can provide an Honors Thesis topic for those who are interested. For more information: contact Prof. Karl Warnick, email "honors @ ee.byu.edu", or visit honors.ee.byu.edu.
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Undergraduate Research Rotations Information Meeting
The ECEn department is offering a new undergraduate research rotations program. An information meeting will take place at 5pm Thursday Jan. 14 in 254 CB. We will show brief presentations about some exciting department research projects, and interested students will be able to sign up to participate in research rotations in two labs over the next few weeks. The time commitment will be small (1-2 hours per week) and you can participate even if you have another campus job or are working in a lab already. The idea is to give students a flavor of some of the cool things that are happening in the department without having to make a commitment to any particular project. This activity is for Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in Electrical and Computer Engineering, but students from other programs can participate if they wish. Finally, pizza will be provided!
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IMMERSE documentary to be broadcast on BYU Television
A documentary highlighting the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's IMMERSE program will air on BYU Television Jan. 12 at 11 p.m. and again Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. Intensive Mentoring and Micro-Electronics Research for Students in Engineering gives undergrads the opportunity to be paid as researchers and trained through one-on-one interactions with faculty and experienced students. A preview of the documentary can be viewed here.
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ECEn Engineers install new antenna on world’s largest radio telescope
Professors Jeffs and Warnick along with a few ECEn students installed a super-sensitive antenna for processing signals from deep space at about the same spot where Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean battled it out in the James Bond film GoldenEye.
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Professors Hawkins and Schultz publish new ECEn book
Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Aaron Hawkins and Stephen Schultz recently published “Practically Magic: A Guide to Electrical and Computer Engineering”. The book was designed as an introduction to ECE for high school and college students, researching career options.
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First Year Experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU
To assist incoming students, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECEn) at BYU sponsors several efforts to ease the transition from high school to college.
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Dr. Beard receives the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award
Randal W. Beard received the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award for outstanding research and creative accomplishments. Dr. Beard has made pioneering contributions to his field. Widely considered an international expert in the area of coordinated control of small unmanned aerial vehicles, his work is documented in journal articles and book chapters, conference articles, and a book, with many of these publications invited or highly cited contributions. His research has allowed him to mentor 27 graduate students, many undergraduates and other faculty members. He is the past recipient of the BYU Young Scholar and Technology Transfer awards.
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ECEn PhD Student presents research at Nanotech 2009
Ph.D. student Stan Ness presented his research co-authored with Dr. Greg Nordin and Dr. Seunghyun Kim at a special symposium on MEMS and InkJet Applications during the Nanotech 2009 Conference held May 3-7, 2009 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The presentation was entitled ""Deposition of Functionalizing Materials on Photonic Microcantilever Chemical/Biological Sensors using Inkjet Technology"". It focused on how a high-tech inkjet printer can be used to place and immobilize proteins or other biological material on silicon substrates, in this case, a photonic microcantilever. The ability to immobilize proteins is of great interest to the sensor and biomedical communities since it forms the crucial link between inorganic sensors and organic analytes. The level of immobilization was qualitatively determined using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and fluorescent microscopy.
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BYU Spinoff is Acquired by Lockheed Martin
Procerus technologies, an Orem Utah based company which has its origins in the BYU Magicc lab was purchased on January 17, 2012 by Lockheed Martin. In 2002-2003 Reed Christiansen, Walter Johnson, and Josh Hintze were masters students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Brigham Young University working under the direction of ECE professor Randy Beard and ME professor Tim McLain.
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PhD student wins 3rd place in the University wide 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Tom Wall, one of our department’s PhD students, won 3rd place in the University wide 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. He had earlier won 1st place in our department and college level competitions. His prize for third at the university was $1000. The title of his 3 minute talk was “Multiplexed Single Bioparticle Detection on a Chip” and he described his work to build an optical sensor on a silicon chip that can detect disease.
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Sara Ehlert awarded the Goldwater scholarship
Recently, Sara Ehlert, a Electrical Engineering and Mathematics major was awarded the Goldwater Scholarship on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,107 students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Of the 1,107 students nominated by their institutions, 271 scholarships were awarded. Established in 1986, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was created to award scholarships to college students studying to become scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
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