Department News
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Capstone Students Display Projects at Annual Presentations and Design Fair
BYU Capstone held its annual Presentations and Design Fair on April 4, 2019. Presentations from 45 different Capstone teams were followed by a Design Fair in the WSC Ballroom. Teams presented the designs and prototypes that they have been working on during Fall and Winter semesters.
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Electrical Engineering Master’s Student Receives NDSEG Fellowship Award
Alec Hammond, a master’s student in the Electrical Engineering department, was awarded the 2019 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. He will use the funding at Georgia Tech, where he will pursue a PhD (also in electrical engineering) after he graduates from BYU this week.
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Electrical Engineering Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award and Grant
Electrical Engineering Professor Daniel Smalley was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Award on March 21st, 2019. This prestigious award provides the recipient with a $500,000 grant over a five-year period to fund their research.
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ECE Research Team Collaborates with Researchers from Universities in Mexico
Published Date: 03/27/2019
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Capstone Students Wrapping Up Designs For Year
Capstone students participated in a Preliminary Design Fair, showing off their project work to fellow Capstone students and instructors. All of this is in preparation for the upcoming Final Presentations and Design Fair, which will be held on Thursday, April 4, in the WSC.
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Capstone Team Prepares for International Competition
The last few weeks of Winter semester can be a busy, sometimes stressful time for Capstone teams. The “Antennas in Classroom Education” team is no exception. In fact, unlike most Capstone teams, this group, made up of Enoch Boekweg, Travis Bonner, Sean Crawford, Jacob Holtom, and Shelby Larsen, is competing against other universities internationally. This competition, the Antennas and Propagation Society Design Contest, is hosted by IEEE.
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Secret to lab-on-a-chip breakthrough: matte black nail polish
Unlikely solution comes from Ph.D. student who also moonlights as a standup comedian
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Electrical Engineering Professor Recognized for Best Paper at SPIE Conference
Doctor Greg Nordin, an Electrical Engineering professor, and his co-workers received a Best Paper Award at the SPIE Photonics West conference for their paper entitled “3D Printing for Lab-on-Chip Devices with 20μm Channels” on February 13, 2019.
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Finalists of the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
Imagine you are an engineering graduate student and have only three minutes to present your entire thesis. You are only allowed one slide. How would you do it?
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Applying to a Job or Internship? Resources are Available!
Are you starting to experience the stress of applying for jobs and internships this summer? Do you wonder where you should apply or when? Maybe you feel like your resume and interviewing skills are not up-to-par?
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Elder Bednar Dedicates the Engineering Building
On December 4, 2018, Elder David A. Bednar dedicated the newly-completed Engineering Building on the BYU campus. He shared some brief thoughts and testimony before giving a prayer of dedication.
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Farah Arabian Awarded Best Student Paper
Farah Arabian, an Electrical Engineering PhD student studying Telecommunications, was awarded Best Student Paper for her research paper submission at the International Telemetry Conference in Phoenix on November 7, 2018.
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Department Welcomes New Professor
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is excited to welcome Professor Phil Lundrigan to the program. Hired in November, Professor Lundrigan will be teaching classes and conducting research surrounding Internet of Things, or IoT, which is basically any device or object that connects to the internet. His new course, Introduction to Wireless Networking, will teach graduate students about wireless networking.
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Students and Faculty Complete Radiation Testing of FPGA Circuits
Dr. Mike Wirthlin, Dr. Jeff Goeders, and a team of ECEn students recently returned from Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico where they tested circuits they have been developing. The purpose of their study is to develop circuits that can tolerate radiation. The results of their experiments will soon be submitted for publishing.
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New Tools, New Possiblities
Current microfluidics technology suffers from the slow and error-prone process used to create the chips within a cleanroom. Dr. Greg Nordin, a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University, has spent thirty years developing new technologies based on micro- and nanofabrication processes. He loves the challenge of creating new capabilities to benefit our everyday lives. For the past fifteen years he has focused on inventing devices for health-related diagnostics and research, recently culminating in creating a 3D printer and related new materials specifically designed to fabricate medical diagnostic laboratories on tiny chips. This new 3D printer allows engineers to create chips for microfluidics in a fraction of the time, reliably, safely, and more consistently than ever before. Watch as Dr. Nordin explains this new technology here on TEDxBYU.
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ECEn 485 Lab Goes Wireless for the First Time!
The final laboratory assignment in ECEn 485 (Introduction to Digital Communications) went "over the air" for the first time at the end of Winter Semester 2018. "The availability of inexpensive software defined radios (SDRs) was the enabler here," explained Prof. Michael Rice, the professor who developed and taught the material.
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