Department News
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Juniors Attend 2nd Annual Christmas Party
For the second year, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a Christmas party for students in the junior core. Organized in the events space in the Engineering Building, the party welcomed the majority of the students in the Junior Core.
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BYU Professor Constructs Mini Town to Test Self-Driving Car Tech
It’s been a big year for miniatures at Brigham Young University.
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BYU offers 'crash course' in self-driving car technology
A BYU electrical engineering professor has found an innovative and inexpensive way to teach students how to program self-driving cars. Instead of building a full-scale autonomous vehicle, DJ Lee used RC cars and an indoor mini course to give students a crash course in the vocabulary and tech behind autonomous vehicles.
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BYU Spacecraft Shoots for the Stars
Their goal is simple: Bring space to BYU. The BYU SpaceCraft Club aims to introduce students to spacecraft and encourage space companies to seek involvement with BYU.
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Magic in the Air: The BYU Amateur Radio Club
Real-life applications of engineering principles are all around, even in unexpected activities. Amateur (or ham) radios are one of those applications. The BYU Ham Radio Club includes several electrical and computer engineering students who have found interest in amateur radio and the engineering principles that play an integral part in the radios’ function.
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Recent Alumni Meetings in Colorado
One of the great resources available to BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering students is a wide network of alumni who are willing to help them with their academic and professional careers. In part, this network is due to the connections made by dedicated professors to former ECE students.
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Recent BYU Grad Improves Avionics at L3Harris
Sean Crawford, a recent graduate of the BYU Electrical Engineering program, was offered a position at L3Harris in Waco, Texas. According to a June 2019 press release, L3Harris was awarded $499 million “to design, produce, and certify a state-of-the-art modernization solution for a fleet of 176 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve C-130H aircraft to improve aircraft availability, reliability and sustainability.” Crawford was hired to work on the avionics of these aircrafts.
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Three Electrical Engineering Students Win Best Paper Award
For their submission at the International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Jamison Ebert, Bryan Redd, and Autumn Twitchell received 2nd place in the Student Best Paper category. The conference took place in Las Vegas on October 21-24, 2019.
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Rice and Redd Presented Best Paper Award
Doctor Michael Rice, Bryan Redd, and Ximena Briceno received the Best Paper Award at the International Telemetry Conference (ITC) for their paper entitled “On Carrier Frequency and Phase Synchronization for Coded 16-APSK in Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry.” The award was given on October 24, 2019.
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PhD Student Wins Second Telemetry Award
For her second year, Farah Arabian, a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department, won an award for the paper she submitted in the International Telemetry Conference (ITC). This year’s award, the Myron Hiram Nichols Telemetry Spectrum Award, is given to researchers whose paper help to improve the visibility and presence of the International Consortium for Telemetry Spectrum (ICTS) and the ITC, and satisfies the certain technical criteria. The award included a plaque given by the ICTS and monetary compensation ($1000) provided by the Aerospace & Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council (AFTRCC).
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Dr. Michael Rice Receives Respected Pioneer Award
Following 28 years of involvement with the International Telemetering Conference (ITC) and its sponsoring organization, the International Foundation for Telemetering (IFT), Professor Michael Rice received the Pioneer Award for his contributions to the telemetering field. He received the award at the annual International Telemetering Conference in Las Vegas on October 22, 2019.
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BYU Electrical Engineering faculty receives International Foundation for Telemetering Pioneer Award
Michael Rice received the Pioneer Award at the October 2019 International Telemetering Conference (ITC) in Las Vegas
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Researchers create way to significantly extend Wi-Fi range for smart-home devices
Computer engineers have created a protocol that significantly extends the distance a Wi-Fi-enabled device can send and receive signals.
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Researchers create way to significantly extend Wi-Fi range for smart-home devices
Computer engineers have created a protocol that significantly extends the distance a Wi-Fi-enabled device can send and receive signals.
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Another Successful Recruiting Dinner
Face-to-face interactions between students and recruiters can be a valuable time for students to discover their interest in working with certain companies and for recruiters to gauge how well the student could fit into their company. Because of this, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering holds a yearly recruiting dinner in conjunction with the STEM fair.
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Utah RF and Wireless Day at BYU
On September 25, 2019, BYU hosted the 7th annual Utah Radio Frequency and Wireless Day, under the direction of Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Karl Warnick. The event rotates annually between BYU, University of Utah, and Utah State University.
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ECE Department Welcomes the External Advisory Board
As part of ABET accreditation standards, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering invites professionals in academia and industry to come and advise the curriculum, student experiences, and alumni engagement of the department, then provide feedback on opportunities for improvement. The board meets once per year.
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Improving the Health of Mongolia One Sensor at a Time
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia has been rated by Time and other organizations as the most highly polluted capital in the entire world. Because the city experiences such frigid temperatures, residents living in poorly-insulated gers use coal-burning stoves almost constantly, which causes such bad pollution. To help alleviate these conditions, BYU Engineering Capstone students designed a system to better insulate gers, allowing occupants to use electricity to heat and cook. These changes significantly decrease the amount of pollution being produced by coal burning stoves.
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