Department News
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Alum credits Dr. Warnick for helping him get dream position
BYU ECEn alum and Diao Junming recently took a huge pay cut and moved from Silicon Valley and a position at Apple to Starkville, Mississippi for a new job. He is elated, and so is his former mentor, Dr. Karl Warnick.
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IEEE club provides resources and connections for students
If you’re into scholarships, connections with professionals, and building high-tech stuff (without getting graded on it), have we got a club for you! The IEEE club provides members with experiences, hands-on projects, and resources to help them succeed in their careers. It is open for all electrical and computer engineering students to join.
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Dr. Smalley receives University recognition
Dr. Daniel Smalley received the Edwin Cozzens Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship at this year’s University Conference.
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Four ECE faculty and staff members receive college awards
Every year, the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering awards staff and faculty within the college for outstanding performance. Here’s a recap of which faculty and staff from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department received awards this year:
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Dr. Greg Nordin receives Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award
Dr. Greg Nordin was awarded a Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award at this year’s University Conference.
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New tours offer an interactive and intimate look at engineering
It’s career day at Hypothetical Elementary School. Susie wants to be a computer programmer, Junior wants to be an inventor, and little Betty Lou is good at math, so she wants to be an engineer and make machines. In between, there are aspiring astronauts, scientists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and one aspiring movie star (there’s always a movie star).
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The Guinness snub you've never heard of
Have you ever heard of our department’s Guinness World Records snub? Well, of course you haven’t; it wouldn’t be much of a snub otherwise.
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A fond farewell to Dr. Hutchings
After nearly three decades at BYU, Dr. Brad Hutchings will be trading in his FPGA’s and integrative circuits for scuba gear and well-earned leisure. The computer engineering professor will officially retire at the end of this week.
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The Capstone experience, as told by a student
Brendon Jensen, a senior in the Computer Engineering program, recently completed a Capstone project alongside his team that enabled tech company L3Harris Technologies to perform more targeted network testing in a shorter amount of time: a cheaper, smaller, and more portable network traffic generator and analyzer than they had been using before. Here’s what he learned from the two-semester process.
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Capstone team gives polar bears the underrated gift of personal space
Ahhh, to be near the arctic: a wonderland coated in uninterrupted fields of snow, where the Northern lights paint the sky and whales roam the seas, where… a polar bear is rooting through your garbage bin?
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ECE Capstone team qualifies as finalist for international IEEE competition
How does one qualify for a free trip to Singapore?
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Another Class Graduates - Virtual Style
April 22, 2021 was a day of firsts for the BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
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Dr. Wirthlin and Dr. Goeders participate in $54 million DTRA research grant
Dr. Mike Wirthlin, Dr. Jeff Goeders, and students are researching how systems on chips respond to high radiation as part of a $54 million project spanning 22 institutions.
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Dr. Cammy Peterson Receives First Annual BYU Inspiring Learning-Experiential Learning Award
Electrical Engineering's own Dr. Cammy Peterson received the first annual Inspiring Learning Award - Experiential Learning from BYU Careers and Experiential Learning on 16 April, 2021.
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Electrical Engineering: A Pathway to New Forms of Creativity
Electrical Engineering senior Keaton Shurilla pictures a future where he can roll up to the club and experience a 360-degree audio system - not through strategically-spaced speakers, but through speakers with the technological prowess to project sound everywhere in the room. In that imagined future, he wants someone across the world to tune in with a virtual reality system so sophisticated it feels like they’re in the club with him. He is combining his passions for technology and the arts to make that future more feasible.
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Robotics Team "Hungry Hungry Hippos" Chews Up the Competition
The Experiential Learning Center hosted the second semi-annual robotics competition on March 26, 2021, with six finalist teams competing for the $500 grand prize.
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Dr. Wood Chiang creates ADC with record-breaking power efficiency
Professor Wood Chiang and his students have created an analog-to-digital converter with record-breaking power efficiency, and their breakthrough is featured in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
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ECEN Interviews: Jesse Richmond
Meet Jesse Richmond! He’s a second-year Master’s student from Mount Pleasant, Utah emphasizing in electrical engineering. He works under Dr. Willie Harrison in joint source-channel coding research, looking at how to compress data and then protect it from transmission errors in one step. This well-rounded gentleman also helped BYU sweep the short story contest earlier this semester! He placed as a runner up in the short fiction category for a quirky, humorous story he wrote titled “Solomon’s Lines.” Take it away, Jesse!
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