Department News
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EcEn PhD student publication appears on the front page of Applied Optics
Ph.D. student Rich Gibson published his research on electric field sensor arrays in the July 1st issue of Applied Optics,Vol. 48, No. 19, pp.3695-3701 (2009). The paper, ""Electric field sensor array from cavity resonance between optical D-fiber and multiple slab waveguides"" is coauthored by Richard Gibson, Richard Selfridge and Stephen Schultz. The publication is highlighted on the cover page and addresses the fabrication of an array of electric field sensors made by multiplexing resonantly coupled electro-optic crystals with specialty D-shaped optical fiber.
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Dr. Beard receives patent
Prof. Beard recently received a patent titled “Aerial Recovery of Small and Micro Air Vehicles.” There are many scenarios where a large manned or unmanned mothership is tasked with picking up a small drone. This poses technical challenges since the mothership is typically flying much faster than the small drone. The basic idea outlined in the patent is for the mothership to deploy a cable that drags a drogue that can be used to capture the small drone mid-air, as shown in the figure to the right.
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Dr. David J. Comer Gives IEEE Electronic Design Society Presentation
Professor David Comer recently gave an invited presentation to a joint meeting of the Boise Section of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the Micron Friday Forum. The title of the presentation was “The evolution of the op amp: From vacuum tubes to weakly inverted MOSFETs.” It covered the history of the op amp dating back to the post-WWII era up to the low-power research being done by Dr. Comer in the area of ultra-low-power MOSFET op amps. In addition to those attending the lecture at the Micron site in person, it was also televised to engineers at all of Micron’s international locations. The potential worldwide audience exceeded 1000 electrical engineers.
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Dr. David Comer Elevated to IEEE Fellow
IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, selected Dr. David Comer for one their most prestigious honors, election to IEEE Fellow. Along with the advancement, IEEE noted Dr. David Comer's leadership in engineering education and electronic circuit design textbooks as two of his major achievements.
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Congratulations to our 3MT Winners
Several ECEn students were honored in the 3 Minute Thesis competition that took place recently. Students had to clearly explain, in simple terms, research they conducted in three minutes or less. The only aid they had in their brief presentation was display of a single slide. Boiling down complex research into such a simple explanation is no easy task, but our students were up to the challenge. Here are the winners from our department:
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Prof. David Andrews Delivers October Colloquium Talk
Dr. David Andrews of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Arkansas presented a colloquium speech to students and faculty of the department on October 22. His talk was titled “It’s Not Your Father’s Computer”. His talk began by observing the contradiction we face that while our use of computers has changed dramatically over the past few decades, the technology base for computing systems has resisted change. On one end are large numbers of sensor rich and networked IoT devices. At the other end of the spectrum are big power-hungry data center and warehouse scale computer systems. Further, the driving applications we run on these systems no longer simply crunch numbers and return a result. In the remainder of the talk he focused on the reasons he believes our old computing approaches will not suffice in this new era. He then outlined what he believes are critical new research challenges that need to be addressed to support the new driving applications in the area of IoT and embedded systems.
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BYU electrical engineers play defense for U.S. government
With their high-flying photo and video capabilities, personal hobby drones are more popular than ever. But how do you ensure that these fun, inexpensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) don’t become a threat to national security?
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BYU Students Win Second Place in Student Paper Contest
Graduate students Chris Hogstrom and Chris Nash received second place in the Graduate Student Category for their paper "Locating and Removing Preamble Sequence in Aeronautical Telemetry" at the International Telemetering Conference in Glendale, AZ. The conference was held 7 - 10 November 2016. The paper describes the work Chris and Chris did for a current research project. The research project involves experiments with equalizers in wideband air-to-ground communication links. The initial round of experiments were conducted at Edwards AFB, CA this past summer. The final phase of experiments will be conducted this Spring. The Chris's were part of a six-student group that accompanied Prof. Michael Rice to the International Telemetering Conference. The BYU group presented five papers in the technical program. Michael Rice was the general chair and Erik Perrins (BSEE '97, MSEE '98, PhD '05) was the technical program chair.
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EE Student Studies and Works Abroad in China
Mark Lindsey, a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering, recently returned from a year-long internship and study abroad program in Nanjing, China. While there, he was able to develop his skills as an engineer, as well as experience the culture of China.
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Dr. Hawkins co-authors book defining field
Aaron Hawkins, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is an editor of the recently-released Handbook of Optofluidics. The book is one of the first comprehensive resources on the emerging field of optofluidics, which involves the use of fluids to modify optical properties and the use of optical devices to detect flowing media.
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Dr. Hawkins Appointed As Department Chair
The college of engineering and technology has appointed Dr. Aaron Hawkins as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, effective June 1, 2018. He will be the chair for a period of three years.
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Former M.S./B.S. student Lucas Kunz was nominated by IEEE as an example of the ''new face'' of engineering for National Engineers week
Lucas Kunz (MS 04) was recently recognized by IEEE as the first runner up for the 2008 New Face of Engineering, a prestigious recognition of junior engineers who are making a significant impact early in their career. Lukas is a senior multi-disciplined engineer in the RF Signal Processing Department at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona, and focuses on algorithm development for air-to-ground radar applications. He has been involved in conceptual design, development, and demonstration of advanced sensor technologies to help protect American troops in battlefield environments.
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Dr. David Long presented at the University of Miami
Dr. David Long presented this year's Bader Lecture at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. He spoke about using radar scatterometry to study wind patterns on the ocean, variations in sea ice, and the health of vegetation in tropical climates. To read more about this, click here.
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ECEN 360 RFID contest winners
Dunia Alrabadi and Kaleo Roberts are the winners of the ECEn 360 RFID detector contest. The detector was required to detect the RFID coil at a distance of 6 inches for full credit. The detector made by Kaleo and Dunia worked at a distance of 58 inches. In order to achieve this distance they used two amplifier gain stages in addition to the inductive coil and a capacitor. They were awarded a $100 prize by an anonymous donor.
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AFRL researcher Dr. Derek Kingston receives 2009 Harold Brown Award
Dr. Derek Kingston of the Air Vehicles Directorate was presented with the Harold Brown award, the highest Air Force award given to a scientist or engineer who applies research to a problem in the field. Recipients are chosen by the Chief Scientist of the Air Force in honor of substantial improvement to the Air Force’s operational effectiveness.
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Taylor Webb receives NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
Taylor Webb, an MS degree candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship with an annual value of $60,000. His research will be advised by Prof. Karl Warnick in the area of phased array feed antennas for space remote sensing applications.
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Ph.D Student Welson Sun and Dr. Wirthlin Present at ACM International Symposium
PhD student Welson Sun and advisor Dr. Mike Wirthlin along with collaborator Stephen Neuendorffer from Xilinx corporation presented the paper ""Combining Module Selection and Resource Sharing for Efficient FPGA Pipeline Synthesis"" at the ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. The conference was held from February 23-24 in Monterey, California.
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Dr. Lee and Ph.D Student Xiaoqian Xu Present Paper in San Diego
Dr. D.J. Lee and Ph.D student Xiaoqian Xu, along with S.K. Antani, L.R. Long, and G.R. Thoma of the National Library of Medicine presented ""Relevance Feedback for Shape-based Pathology in Spine X-ray Image Retrieval"" at SPIE Medical Imaging, Picture Archive and Communication Systems (PACS) and Imaging Informatics. The Conference was held Feb. 11-16 in San Diego, CA.
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