Department News
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Graduate Student Highlight: Mark Ruzindana
Mark Ruzindana cites a few people as his inspirations: his parents and sisters, professional rock climber Tommy Caldwell, and Batman.
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Undergrad Earns Recognition for Work with Self-Driving Cars
At the same conference where grad student Farah Arabian took home third place for her presentation on mobile systems last week, another ECE student placed for his presentation on the self-driving car platform featured on BYU’s YouTube channel and the recent department tours.
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PhD Student Takes Home Award Third Year in a Row
You might recognize her name. In 2018, she won the First Place Graduate Student Award at the International Telemetry Conference (ITC), and last year she won the Myron Hiram Nichols Telemetry Spectrum Award at the ITC. This month, Farah Arabian - a PhD student studying under Dr. Rice - received another award: third place in the engineering track at the Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC) for her paper “Who’s on First in 5G Mobile Networks: Equalizers or Polarization Diversity Combiners?”. She compared two mobile phone architectures to see which outperformed the other, specifically observing how the order of combining and equalization in signal processing affected the outcomes.
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Dr. Warnick Publishes Fifth Textbook
Nearly ten years after publishing the first edition of Numerical Methods for Engineering, Professor Karl Warnick has published its new and improved successor. Numerical Methods for Engineering, 2nd Edition has new material and improvements based on a decade of feedback from students who have used the book.
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Zooming In on the Department's New Normal
For the past two weeks, the reopened Harvey’s Cafe has been blessing (or cursing) the Engineering Building with the smell of bacon, but that’s not the only change in the air. Throughout the building, doors remind visitors to wear face coverings, the floors direct them to stand six feet apart, and the bathroom sinks re-emphasize the timeless need to wash those hands. Not only does it look different, but for students and professors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, it feels different. The classes have turned upside down.
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ECEn Faculty and Staff Awards 2020
The start of the academic year brings with it advancements, awards, and recognitions for outstanding faculty members. The university conference, which transpired the final week of August, honored this year’s worthy faculty and staff members on both university and college levels.
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Dr. Joshua Mangelson Joins ECE Faculty
Dr. Joshua Mangelson is coming to us from his one-year post-doc in the Field of Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mangelson is an alumnus of BYU and the University of Michigan. When he was here as an undergraduate student, he was the digital lab director and a teaching assistant for ECEN 220 (Fundamentals of Digital Systems) and ECEN 320 (Digital System Design). He also did research with Dr. Nelson in the Configurable Computing Lab and was a TA in the Math Lab.
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Chip Camp Goes Virtual
Every summer, bright young minds gather together on BYU campus to learn the secrets of engineering at Chip Camp. The department staffs full-time ECE students to lead these middle schoolers in exercises designed to open their eyes to the possibilities within the electrical and computer engineering fields. It’s three days of fun with educational undertones.
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Welcoming Dr. Steven Allen as a Member of our Faculty
Dr. Steven Allen, PhD, described his undergraduate self as a bog-standard student with a fairly unremarkable track record, but the research professor - who joins the department faculty this fall - has built himself a considerably remarkable track record over the past ten years. He holds two degrees and ever-growing expertise in MRI technology and biomedical engineering.
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Department Welcomes Dr. Lloyd
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome associate professor Dr. Scott Lloyd to the program. Dr. Lloyd originally completed his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, but after taking several computer-related courses as an undergraduate and realizing that he both enjoyed and excelled in the classes, he made the academic shift to Computer Science for graduate school.
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ECE Students Borrow From Nature to Create Nanoscale Membranes
Nanotechnology Journal will soon be publishing a research paper detailing the findings of several ECE students. The team, led by Dr. Aaron Hawkins and consisting of ECEn students Zach Walker, Tanner Wells, and Kalliyan Lay as well as collaborators Mohammad Sampad and Holger Schmidt from the UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering, created a new technique for fabricating membranes so thin that they measure their width exclusively in nanometers.
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A Covid Summer Project
Nate Vance is a senior in the Computer Engineering program. After his internship at Apple was turned into a remote position, he decided to use his computer engineering skills to work on personal projects as well. He developed his own simulated race system to practice skeleton racing (yes, like in the Olympics!). His system is made up of an electric longboard, a proximity sensor, and a race timer. Swipe to watch Nate's project in action!
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Students and Faculty Honor Dr. Archibald’s Tenure at BYU
As June 2020 draws to a close, so does Professor Jim Archibald’s tenure of almost thirty-three years at BYU. On the last day of June 2020, Dr. Archibald officially retired.
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Dr. Randy Beard: Google Scholar Most Cited Expert
According to the Google Scholar citation index, Dr. Randal W. Beard of BYU’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department is the second-most-cited professor currently at BYU. Citations are an important measure of the impact of academic research.
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New Senior-Level Networking Class Debuts this Fall
An understanding of networking is vital for computer engineers in today's market. To meet that need, Dr. Lundrigan will be teaching a new networking class tailored to fit the needs of ECE students.
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Digital and Analog Labs Receive Long-Awaited Upgrades
When the new Engineering Building opened up, it was perfect.
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Computer Engineering Student Leverages Technology for Manufacturing Capstone Project
BYU’s College of Engineering partners with sponsors to create Capstone projects for students to complete during their senior year. Terrance Smith, an undergraduate Computer Engineering student started working on a project with Northrop Grumman to explore the ins and outs of utilizing the PTC digital platform to understand maintenance and manufacturing operations.
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Annual SIOY Competition Funds Ideas for Innovative Students
The BYU College of Engineering hosts an annual event called the SIOY, or Student Innovator of the Year Competition, in conjunction with the BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. Students from any major across campus who have a groundbreaking idea they want to share are invited to participate in the event.
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