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Dr. Long Awarded Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award
Professor David G. Long was awarded the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award during the annual university conference. This award is the University's most prestigious faculty award, and is given for exceptional achievements in both scholarship and teaching. As a recipient of this award, Dr. Long will deliver the 2008 Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture at the University Forum Assembly scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Marriott Center.
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Prof. Michael Rice's book appeared this month
Prof. Michael Rice's text book ""Digital Communications: A Discrete-Time Approach"" was released April 2008 by Pearson Prentice-Hall. The text develops the fundamentals of digital communication theory with an emphasis on discrete-time implementation techniques. It is intended for use in senior-level or first-year graduate courses.
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Mallory Phillips Awarded Second Place Undergraduate Student Paper at AUTOTESTCON 2008
Mallory Phillips placed second in AUTOTESTCON 2008's Best Undergraduate Student Paper competition. Mallory designed a battery-free, wireless threshold accelerometer. Her paper outlines the design of the accelerometer as well as its manufacture and details about the testing performed on it. Mallory has been researching bistable switches, the basis for her accelerometer, for two years.
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ECEn Faculty selected for DARPA Study on FPGA Design Productivity
The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) recently awarded a $350k contract to Professor Mike Wirthlin, Brent Nelson, and Brad Hutchings to investigate current and future design methodologies for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FRGAs). Working with colleagues from Virginia Tech, the faculty will investigate and evaluate techniques that may lead to significant improvements in FPGA design productivity. The study will culminate with a DARPA-sponsored workshop on the topic to be held summer 2008.
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Prof. Michael Jensen Elevated to IEEE Fellow
Michael Jensen was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE on 15 November 2007 ""for contributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices and multi-antenna wireless communications systems."" Each year, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of individuals for this prestigious honor. The 2008 Fellows Class consists of 295 members, which by policy is less than one-tenth of a percent of the active IEEE membership. Dr. Jensen joined the BYU faculty in 1994 and currently serves as the director for the BYU Wireless Communications Laboratory and as the Department Chair.
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Employee Honored with Matt Brown Award
Mark Ormsby, current President of the Utah Rugby Union, has been chosen to recieve the annual Matt Brown Award, which recognizes distinguished BYU Rugby Alumni and Boosters who have given much to promote and support the game at BYU and beyond. Ormsby was honored at BYU's 2007 rugby kick-off dinner. He has worked for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department for over seven years.
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Seven papers presented at AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference
Graduate students and professors of the BYU MAGICC lab (directed by Profs. Randy Beard, Clark Taylor, and Tim McLain) recently presented seven papers at the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference. Paper topics include ""Multiple UAV Task Allocation Using Distributed Auctions,"" ""Obstacle Avoidance Using Circular Paths,"" ""Wind Estimation Using and Optical Flow Sensor on a MAV,"" and ""Particle Filter Based Mosaicking for Tracking Forest Fires."" The conference was held in South Carolina during August 2007.
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Professor's Paper Chosen as One of Most Cited
Prof. Randy Beard's May 2005 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control article, "Consensus Seeking in Multiagent Systems Under Dynamically Changing Interaction Topologies," has been selected by Essential Science Indicators as one of the most cited recent papers in engineering as part of their "Fast Breaking Papers" series for February 2007.
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Undergraduates Josh Proulx and Ryan Clifford Receive Cash, High Paper Reviews
Undergraduates Josh Proulx and Ryan Clifford, working with advisors Dr. D.J. Lee and Dr. James Archibald on the Wireless EKG Senior Project, received honorable mention in this year's BYU Business Plan Competition and a cash prize of $500. They submitted a paper on this project to the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems and received very high reviews. They will present their published paper on Jun. 22-23 at the Symposium in Salt Lake City.
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Dr. Brent Nelson Presents Invited Paper
Dr. Brent Nelson was recently featured as an invited speaker at the 2006 IEEE Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP 2006). Dr. Nelson was one of two invited presenters for a special session on Configurable Computing Machines. This invited session was a part of the activities at ASAP this year marking the 20th year anniversary of the conference. In his talk, Dr. Nelson presented the results of BYU research over the past decade on Configurable Computing Machines, specifically focusing on the development of the JHDL hardware description language and its use for the design, debug, and deployment of high-performance computing applications on configurable computing platforms. The ASAP conference was held September 11-13 in Steamboat Springs Colorado.
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Dr. Archibald and Dr. Stirling Publish Paper With Students Jared Hill and Ryan Johnson
Professors James Archibald and Wynn Stirling, along with graduate student Jared Hill and former undergraduate student Ryan Johnson, recently published the paper ""Satisficing Negotiations"" in the January 2006 issue of ""IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C."" The paper presents a theory of negotiation based on satisficing game theory which accommodates both cooperative and non-cooperative behavior, leading to effective solutions of challenging multi-agent problems.
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Professor Karl Warnick Receives Faculty Award
Prof. Karl Warnick recieved the Faculty Award from the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the College Dinner on 9 March 2006. The award is a department-level award that recognizes achievement in scholarhip, teaching, and university/professional citizenship. Prof. Warnick has an impressive record in externally funded research and is currently serving as the accreditation coordinator for the electrical engineering and computer engineering degrees. The award includes a plaque and a $500 stipend.
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Professor Aaron Hawkins Wins College Award
Prof. Aaron Hawkins received the Excellence in Scholarship Award at the College Dinner on 9 March 2006. The award is a college-level award that recognizes leadership in the conceiving and operation of research programs that benefit students, faculty, society and the institution. Aaron has an impressive record of quality scholarship and student mentoring, curriculum development, and collaboration with colleagues both at BYU and at other institutions. Prof. Hawkins received a plaque and a $1,000 stipend.
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National Research Council Publication Features Dr. David Long's Wind Imaging
The National Research Council featured a Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder image created by Dr. David Long on the cover of its major report Earth Science and Applications from Space: Urgent Needs and Opportunities to Serve the Nation (2005). Dr. Long generated the image highlighting wind speed and direction using his resolution enhancement algorithm and compiled data from the satellite-based SeaWinds scatterometer.
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Dr. Michael Jensen, Matthew Morris and Jon Wallace Publish Journal Articles, Present Papers in Italy and Texas
Dr. Michael Jensen and BYU graduate student Matthew Morris published ""Impact of receive amplifier signal coupling on MIMO system performance"" in the September 2005 issue of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; together with Research Associate Jon Wallace they published ""Superdirectivity in MIMO systems"" in the September 2005 IEEE Transactions on Antennas Propagation. Also in September, Dr. Jensen and Jon Wallace presented ""Recent advances in antennas and propagation for MIMO systems: multi-user networks and channel temporal variation"" at ICEAA'2005 in Torino, Italy and ""Measurement and characterization of the time variation of indoor and outdoor MIMO channels at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz"" at VTC'2005 in Dallas, Texas.
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Dr. Mark Manwaring and MS Student Preston Manwaring Present at EMBC 2005 in Shanghai
Dr. Mark Manwaring and MS student Preston Manwaring presented ""A Provocative Test to Determine Brain Compliance in the Management of Patients with Hydrocephalus"" and ""An Apparatus and Method to Characterize Causes of Positional Plagiocephaly"" at the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society held in Shanghai, China in August 2005. Both papers are based on Preston's MS work.
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ECEn undergrads win Best Student Paper award
Undergraduate Jared Hill competed against several Ph.D. students to win Best Student Paper at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control. Hill presented ""A Satisficing Approach to Free Flight,"" which he wrote with former undergraduate Ryan Johnson. Faculty advisors included Dr. James Archibald, Dr. Richard Frost, and Dr. Wynn Stirling. Hill and Johnson wrote and researched the paper with the help of a BYU mentoring environment grant.
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ECEn Grad Student Wins ASNT Fellowship Award
PhD student Tyson Lowder's research proposal, ""D-Fiber for Multidimensional Sensor Applications,"" garnered for Brigham Young University the 2005 ASNT Fellowship Award. The award, offered by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing to no more than three recipients each year, provides BYU with up to $15,000 to pursue Lowder's proposed research; he will present his findings at the next national ASNT conference. Faculty advisors included Dr. Stephen Schultz and Dr. Richard Selfridge.
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