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Chip Camp shows the excitement of engineering
On August 12th and 13th, for the first time ever Brigham Young University hosted an engineering day-camp for 7th and 8th grade students.
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Prof. Yaakov Bar Shalom Delivers First Department Colloquium Talk
Prof. Yaakov Bar Shalom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut, delivered the first Department Colloquium talk on 1 May 2014.
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Prof. Warnick Contributes to a New IEEE Standard for Antenna Terms
Dr. Warnick and Dr. Brian Jeffs in the ECEn Department began working nearly ten years ago in the area of array antennas for radio astronomy instruments. This work was supported by several million dollars in funding from the National Science Foundation, and led to developments like the most sensitive cryogenic phased array receiver ever demonstrated. This system was tested on world-class radio telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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Prof. Rice Receives Award
Prof. Michael Rice, Jim Abrams Professor, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Communications Theory Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society at IEEE Globecom 2013 in Atlanta. Prof. Rice served as chair of the Communications Theory Technical Committee during 2009 and 2010, vice-chair during 2007 and 2008, and secretary during 2005 and 2006.
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Prof. Rice Begins New Appointment
On 15 October 2013, Prof. Michael Rice was appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. In this new role, his responsibilities include assisting the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Lance Kaplan, in investigating matters of plagiarism, adjudication of disputed editor decisions, editor appointments, quality control, and selection of the M. Barry Carlton Award. Dr. Kaplan cited Prof. Rice's ""excellent service as a technical editor,"" his ""excellent attitude toward the overall review and publication process"" and his publication record as the basis for the appointment.
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Dr. David Arnold recognized as the 2013 Honored Alumnus
avid Arnold is currently the CEO of Wavetronix, which is a company that designs, manufactures and sells radar-based traffic detectors world-wide. He began life as an Idaho farm boy and became an electrical engineer through study at Ricks College, Brigham Young University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at BYU for eight years before founding Wavetronix in 2000. Dr. Arnold is the father of four children (two of whom are currently students in the department).
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Brent Nelson appointed new Department Chair
Brent Nelson has been appointed the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chair. His appointment began June 1st, 2012. Dr. Nelson received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah. He serves as co-director for the NSF Center for Reconfigurable High Performance Computing (CHREC), and is actively involved in the international and globalization activities within the college. He created the college’s Globalization Study Abroad program in 2007.
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BYU electrical engineers light up ballroom dancers
Professor Aaron Hawkins and a team of electrical engineering students and faculty have created fully-functioning, eye-catching light suits that flash to music.
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BYU Alumnus appointed Dean at JUST
Mohammad Al-Rousan (PhD 1996) was recently appointed Dean of the College of Information Technology at the Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, where he is also a Professor of Network Engineering and Security. Dr. Al-Rousan was on the faculty of the University of Sharjah (UAE) from 2002 to 2010. His research interests include wireless sensor networks and protocols.
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ECE on Display 2011
Get a closer look at a very challenging, rewarding and in-demand field! Come check out senior project demos, competitions and interactive displays from companies. You will also get to see laser trucks, robot racers and a laser cutting tool in action.
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Richard B. Brown received the Outstanding Alumnus Award for 2010
Richard B. Brown received the Outstanding Alumnus Award for 2010 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. Some of the highlights from his distinguished career are summarized below.
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Professor Comer Motorcycles to Conference
Presenting a paper at a circuits conference is nothing new for Dr. Dave Comer. However, the mode of transportation used to travel to the 2010 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) in Seattle was somewhat unusual.
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Undergraduate student wins Best Student Paper award
Paul Bartholomew, an undergraduate student in electrical engineering, recently won a Best Undergraduate Student Paper award at the Four Corners conference of the American Physical Society held at Weber State University on October 15-16, 2010. His paper was titled, "Measurement of steel corrosion in concrete by impedance spectroscopy." Coauthors were Eric Sumsion, W. Spencer Guthrie, and Brian Mazzeo.
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Professor Michael Rice Contributes to New Book
A new book hit the streets in August 2010. The book, Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design, is published by SciTech Publishing, and is the first book dedicated to current and future applications of waveform diversity in radar, sonar, communications, and passive sensing. Along with former PhD student Tom Nelson, Prof. Rice contributed Chapter 28: MIMO Communications Using Offset Modulations. The chapter was based on a presentation given by Michael Rice and Tom Nelson at the Waveform Diversity and Design Conference in 2006. Rice and Nelson were invited to expand their presentation to a full chapter for the book. Tom Nelson completed his PhD, titled, "Space-Time Coding With Offset Modulations," in 2007 and now works for L-3 Communications, Communication Systems - West in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Michael Jensen named editor-in-chief
ECEn department chair Michael Jensen was recently named editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, a top journal in the field of antennas and propagation.
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Professor's Dave and Don Comer co-author article published in the March issue of the International Journal of Electronics (British).
An article entitled "A high-gain CMOS op amp using composite cascode stages," written by Don Comer, Dave Comer, and PhD graduate, Lisha Li was recently published in the March issue of the International Journal of Electronics (British). The article reports work by the BYU Mixed-Signal Circuits group that maximizes op amp gain by operating several of the MOS devices in the subthreshold region. Research in the subthreshold operation of amplifier stages is continuing in an effort to minimize power consumption for portable applications in the biomedical instrumentation area.
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2010 Globalization Study Abroad
Attention College of Engineering and Technology students. Spend spring term in Nanjing China while you: study globalization, engineering, and technology, prepare for the job market by gaining global experience, visit and interact with engineering firms in China. No prior foreign language skills needed. Come and learn about the program, courses, costs and financial aid available. The information session will be held on Monday, October 5 @ 3:00 p.m. in room 254 of the Clyde Building. For more information see Professor Brent Nelson, 459 CB, 422-6455. Study Abroad 2010
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Professor Hawkins helps slow down light with a silicon chip
A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online September 5 and in the November print issue).
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