Department News
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ECEn PhD Student presents research at Nanotech 2009
Ph.D. student Stan Ness presented his research co-authored with Dr. Greg Nordin and Dr. Seunghyun Kim at a special symposium on MEMS and InkJet Applications during the Nanotech 2009 Conference held May 3-7, 2009 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The presentation was entitled ""Deposition of Functionalizing Materials on Photonic Microcantilever Chemical/Biological Sensors using Inkjet Technology"". It focused on how a high-tech inkjet printer can be used to place and immobilize proteins or other biological material on silicon substrates, in this case, a photonic microcantilever. The ability to immobilize proteins is of great interest to the sensor and biomedical communities since it forms the crucial link between inorganic sensors and organic analytes. The level of immobilization was qualitatively determined using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and fluorescent microscopy.
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BYU Spinoff is Acquired by Lockheed Martin
Procerus technologies, an Orem Utah based company which has its origins in the BYU Magicc lab was purchased on January 17, 2012 by Lockheed Martin. In 2002-2003 Reed Christiansen, Walter Johnson, and Josh Hintze were masters students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Brigham Young University working under the direction of ECE professor Randy Beard and ME professor Tim McLain.
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PhD student wins 3rd place in the University wide 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Tom Wall, one of our department’s PhD students, won 3rd place in the University wide 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. He had earlier won 1st place in our department and college level competitions. His prize for third at the university was $1000. The title of his 3 minute talk was “Multiplexed Single Bioparticle Detection on a Chip” and he described his work to build an optical sensor on a silicon chip that can detect disease.
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Sara Ehlert awarded the Goldwater scholarship
Recently, Sara Ehlert, a Electrical Engineering and Mathematics major was awarded the Goldwater Scholarship on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,107 students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Of the 1,107 students nominated by their institutions, 271 scholarships were awarded. Established in 1986, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was created to award scholarships to college students studying to become scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
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New Faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Please join us in welcoming our newest faculty member Daniel Smalley. Here is a brief description of Dr. Smalley to help you get to know him.
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Several BYU alumni earn best paper awards
At the recent Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) conference in San Jose Mar 16-18, BYU graduates swept the Best Paper awards. The SNUG conference is a technical meeting for designers of digital architectures and circuits and had more than 2,100 engineers in attendance, with individual session having 300-600 engineers apiece. The best paper awards given out by the conference were:
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Dr. Penry Receives Microsoft Research Grant
Dr. Penry was one of seven recipients of a Microsoft Research Safe and Scalable Multicore Computing grant for a project entitled ""Runtime Packaging of Fine-Grained Parallelism and Locality"". This project seeks to adapt and optimize parallel programs at runtime to improve their performance on a diverse set of multicore systems. A July 30 article in EE Times reports on Dr. Penry's project and the six other projects supported through these grants.
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Dr. Long receives research award
Dr. Long received the Sponsored Research Regonition Award at the university conference this past August.
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PhD Student Erik Perrins wins first place in student paper contest
Erik Perrins won first place in the graduate student category of the student paper contest at the International Telemetering Conference. His paper was titled ""An Alternate Proposal for ARTM CPM"" and describes a modification to an existing standard in aeronautical telemetry that increases the detection efficiency. Erik is a PhD student and his advisor is Michael Rice. Erik won $1000.
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ECEn welcomes Dr. Clark Taylor to the faculty
Dr. Taylor did his undergraduate and masters degree work here at BYU and recently graduated with his Ph.D. from UCSD. His interests lie in video computation and communication and he currently teaches computer engineering courses.
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Recent Alumnus Receives Honorable Mention
Dr. Will Curtis, a research scientist at the Munitions Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and a recent alumnus of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has recently received honorable mentions for the prestigious John L. McLucas Basic Research Award which recognizes individuals making significant achievements in basic research activities supporting the Air Force mission. Dr. Curtis received the award for pioneering work in the synthesis of control laws for autonomous aircraft and smart weapon systems. Competition for the award is extremely competitive and the honorable mention places Dr. Curtis among the top four engineers and scientists performing basic research in the Air Force. Dr. Curtis received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from BYU in 2002.
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Students from BYU's MAGICC Lab participate in Micro Air Vehicle Competition
BYU was one of eight teams from North America and Europe that participated in the Micro Air Vehicle competition held at Eglin Air Force Base. Grading was based on the MAVs ability to takeoff, navigate to three waypoints, hit a target with a paintball and finally land. This new technology has a host of applications for both military and civilian use.
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Dr. Wirthlin Honored with Outstanding Faculty Award
On March 8th the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology presented an Outstanding Faculty award to Dr. Michael J. Wirthlin. Professor Wirthlin is recognized for having published eight peer-reviewed articles in the last two years, serving as the ECEn Graduate Coordinator, assisting in the development of the Computer Engineering curriculum and engaging in collaboration with other universities and national laboratories.
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Professor Publishes Article on Python
Dr. Olipant's article on the use of Python in Science and Engineering is a feature publication for the May/June edition of ""Computers in Science and Engineering"". The article can be accessed here.
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Professor Stirling is awarded STIR Grant
The Army Research Office recently awarded a Short Term Innovative Research Grant to Dr. Wynn Stirling entitled ""Socially Coherent Negotiations for Cooperative Multiagent Systems."" The objective of this project is to develop a mathematical framework for the design of autonomous decision makers that accommodates sophisticated social behaviors such as cooperation, negotiation, and altuism.
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ECEn student spot-lighted by news media at BYU graduation
Each year at graduation time, BYU selects a student to represent the university to the news media. This year, Steffanie Kuehn from the ECEn department was selected to represent BYU. Steffanie, after graduating from our department in April 2009 will go on to Columbia University to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering. More information about Steffanie and her accomplishments can be found here.
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Michael Rice recieves Jim Abrams and Anita Schiller Professorship
The College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University has named Michael Rice, a professor of engineering and technology, as the first recipient of the Jim Abrams and Anita Schiller Professorship.
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Dr. Long writes chapter in new book
Dr. Long wrote a chapter on resolution enhancement for microwave sensors in a book entitled Frontiers of Remote Sensing Information Processing. Dr. Long and his students are actively researching new methods of improving remote sensing resolutions.
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