Department News
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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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Dr. Randy Beard receives AIAA fellowship
Dr. Randy Beard has been elected a Fellow, Class of 2021 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world’s largest aerospace professional society.
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ECEn Interviews: Autumn Twitchell
Meet Autumn Twitchell! She is a first-year Masters student from Folsom, California working under Dr. Rice in aeronautical telemetry. She will be the first in a series of ECEN Interviews celebrating our students, inspired by the Cougar Queries.
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What Has Eta Kappa Nu Been Up To?
Our BYU chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the IEEE honor society for electrical engineering students, has big plans for this semester despite roadblocks from a pesky pandemic. The chapter has been striving to build a sense of community within the department between students and professors, and it has more ideas on the horizon for furthering the chapter’s goals.
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PICs Update: CubeSats go seen but unheard
The population of Earth’s orbit grew ten satellites larger Sunday, Jan. 17., when NASA’s Virgin Orbit launch vehicle released ten student-built satellites into space. Two of them - the Passive Inspection Cubesats (PICs) - came from Dr. David Long and his team of students. The PICs entered Earth’s orbit successfully, and the team is now pursuing the next steps.
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Dr. Lee Crushes the Dreams of Up-and-Coming Identity Thieves
If you’ve ever had the inclination to break into top-secret laboratories, now would be the time to do it.
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ECE Christmas Party Proves Faculty and Students Have Life Outside EB
Even though students couldn’t touch one another with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole at this year’s department Christmas party (held Thursday, December 10th), it was virtually (get it?) the best party ever thrown!
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Dr. Nordin a Top-Cited Author in Lab on a Chip Journal
Dr. Greg Nordin and his research team have again landed in the top 5% of highly cited authors with the Royal Society of Chemistry journals for their paper on the creation of a custom 3D printer for microfluidic devices.
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Student Highlight: Patrick Walton
If you follow BYU news, you might have heard about the CubeSat - the small, six-sided “spacecraft selfie cam” a team of our electrical engineers will soon launch into space. The handsome fellow narrating the video is PhD student Patrick Walton, and the unprecedented CubeSat project - which he started as an undergraduate - was just his warm up. In addition to the soon-to-be-launched space camera, Walton is building a fleet of tiny weather satellites with the potential to fill the gaping holes in forecasting data. He started the project, called Care Weather, in January 2019, with business partner Alex Laraway and faculty mentor Dr. David Long.
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BYU Capstone Teams with Mercury Systems for DDR4 Memory Tester
Each year, BYU Capstone partners with government agencies, corporate leaders, humanitarian organizations, and entrepreneurs to provide opportunities for senior-level engineering students in Computer, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Engineering to participate in real-world engineering challenges. Top engineering faculty and skilled industry mentors guide students through the design and development process. This year, teams of Capstone students are participating in 53 unique projects across a wide variety of industries.
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Student Highlight: Jakob Kunzler
Boy Scout camp has a cherished place in American hearts for its role in teaching the skills essential to life: wilderness survival, first aid, citizenship, and - if you’re PhD student Jakob Kunzler - calculus and differential equations.
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