Department News
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Fish Identification Research Project Featured in Article
The work of Dr. D.J. Lee and others involved in the Fish Recognition Project was recently featured in an article in Vision Systems Design. The project uses visual image processing to simplify tracking the size and movements of specific fish populations.
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FPGA Reliability Research Group Conducts Radiation Test
The FPGA reliability research group, headed by Dr. Michael Wirthlin, recently conducted radiation experiments at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory cyclotron at the University of California, Davis. Graduate students Brian Pratt and Keith Morgan supported tests designed to characterize the quality of a new BYU tool designed to lessen radiation effects on FPGAs.
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Dr. Clark Taylor appointed vice chair of the Utah Section of the IEEE Computer Society
Dr. Clark Taylor, who was recently selected to be the vice chair of the Utah Section of the IEEE Computer Society, did his undergraduate and masters degree work here at BYU and recently graduated with his Ph.D. from UCSD.
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Dr.'s Jensen and Rice land DOD Grant to Advance Flight Testing
Dr. Jensen and Dr. Rice were awarded nearly $1 million in grant money to improve air-to-ground communications during Air Force flight tests. By developing a receiver capable of coordinating signals from on-board antennas, Dr. Jensen, Dr. Rice and their telemetry research team will enable the Air Force to get more valuable test data in fewer flights, which will reduce the cost of flight testing. Also reported in BYU News and Deseret News.
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Andrea Eyring Named Honored Alumna
Andrea Eyring (MSEE 1987, BSEE 1987) was named the Honored Alumna in 2012 by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU. Andrea is the founder of Eyring Systems Incorporated, established in 1996. Eyring Systems Incorporated provides specialized system and software engineering, signal analysis, and consulting services in the areas of digital telecommunications and data communications. Andrea provides system engineering, architecting support, algorithm development, data quality assessment support, and training for several companies and programs. Andrea founded Eyring Systems Incorporated shortly after the birth of her first child in part to afford herself more flexibility in raising her children.
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Alumni Receives Prestigious NSF Award
Dr. Wei Ren, who received his PhD in 2004 was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for his work on distributed multi-vehicle cooperative control. Dr. Ren is currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University. His work is expected to have significant impact on applications that include space-based interferometry, environment monitoring, border patrol, and search and rescue.
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Better than a hologram: BYU study produces 3D images that float in 'thin air'
In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress. The iconic scene includes the line still famous 40 years later: “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”
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Junior Core Christmas Party
For the first time ever, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a Christmas party for students in the junior core. Organized in the events space in the new Engineering Building, the party welcomed the majority of the students in the Junior Core.
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Outstanding Dr. Jeffs
Dr. Brian Jeffs was awarded the ECEn Department Outstanding Faculty Award for 2016 on Tuesday, November 1, 2016. The outstanding faculty member award is given annually to recognize significant contributions by a faculty member in all areas of faculty activity – teaching, citizenship/service, and scholarship.
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ECEn Hosts an International Workshop on Array Signal Processing
Professors Warnick and Jeffs hosted an all-day workshop on October 24 on Phased Array Antenna Modeling and Signal Processing. Attendees from South Africa, India, Canada, China, Australia, and the U.S. used hands-on modeling codes developed by Warnick and Jeffs to learn state-of-the-art techniques for modeling and designing advanced antenna systems for astronomy, sattelite communications, and other areas. The workshop falls under the umbrella of the Software Enabled Radio Astronomy (SERA) Consortium co-founded by Warnick and Jeffs. More information is available at http://seraproject.org/.
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Professor Randy Beard presented with the College Excellence in Scholarship Award
Professor Randy Beard was presented with the College Excellence in Scholarship Award which recognizes leadership in the conceiving and operation of research programs that benefit students, faculty, society, and the institution. Dr. Beard is the co-founder of the BYU Magicc Lab which conducts research in cooperative control and small unmanned air vehicles.
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Mark Shand Speaks in Department Colloquium
Mark Shand of Google spoke to the faculty and students on Thurday, 21 January 2016, as part of the department colloquium series. His entertaining talk was on the Google Car project -- a self-driving car. He focused on the Lidar technology used by the self-driving car to sense its environment. He also described how the software processes the enormous quantities of data collected by Lidar, radar, and video cameras to classify objects (both moving and unmoving) and to predict actions, dangerous situations, etc. It was a facinating insight into the mind of a self-driving car. If you were not there, ask someone who was there about the lady in a wheelchair and the duck ....
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Todd Moon receives the Outstanding Alumnus Award for 2015
Todd Moon receives the Outstanding Alumnus Award for 2015.
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Prof. Fawwaz Ulaby Delivers November Colloquium Talk
Fawwaz Ulaby of the Department of Electircal Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan presented a colloquium speech to students and faculty of the department on November 5. His first talk was titled ""RF Broadband Frequency Allocation, Challenges and Tribulations"" and explained the mobile telephone providers' needs to acquired additonal spectrum allocations as they plan for next generation (or 5th Generation -- ""5G"") mobile telephone service. The new spectrum will be provided by a combination of reallocation of spectrum currently allocated to government use (mostly DoD allocations) and new allocations in the millimeter band.
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Prof. Michael Rice Wins Best Paper Award
Prof. Michael Rice, and his co-author Erik Perrins (PhD '05) won the best paper award at the 2015 International Telemetering Conference for the paper entitled ""Maximum Likelihood Detection from Multiple Bit Sources"". The paper was presented at the 2015 International Telemetering Conference on Thursday 29 October 2015 in Las Vegas, NV.
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BYU Students Win Best Paper Award
Chris Hogstrom and Chris Nash won first place in the undergraduate category at the 2015 International Telemetering Contest for their paper entitled ""Software Defined Radio for SOQPSK."" The paper was presented Wednesday, 28 October 2015, at the International Telemetering Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
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Dr. Hawkins made IEEE Fellow
Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.
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Prof. Rice Participates in Intercultural Ethics Panel
This year, UVU's Ethics Week was Monday 21 September - 24 September 2015. Prof. Rice was invited to participate in Session Four, featuring a panel discussion on "Intercultural Business Ethics." He served on the panel with Prof. John Hooker, Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Change, Carnegie Mellon University and Sophie Heying Lu-Seng, Philosophy and Humanities Department, UVU.
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