Department News
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ECE Capstone team qualifies as finalist for international IEEE competition
How does one qualify for a free trip to Singapore?
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BYU researchers create world's most power-efficient high-speed ADC microchip
A BYU professor and his team have built the world’s most power-efficient high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) microchip. An ADC is a tiny piece of technology present in almost every electronic piece of equipment that converts analog signals (like a radio wave) to a digital signal.
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BYU engineering, theatre arts students team up to create animatronic cougar
Thanks to the combined efforts of two BYU engineering capstone teams and a group of theatre and media arts students, the beloved mascot Cosmo is getting an animatronic counterpart in the theatre department.
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Another Class Graduates - Virtual Style
April 22, 2021 was a day of firsts for the BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
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BYU hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air
They may be tiny weapons, but BYU’s holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers — green for Yoda and red for Darth Vader, naturally — with actual luminous beams rising from them.
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Dr. Wirthlin and Dr. Goeders participate in $54 million DTRA research grant
Dr. Mike Wirthlin, Dr. Jeff Goeders, and students are researching how systems on chips respond to high radiation as part of a $54 million project spanning 22 institutions.
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Dr. Cammy Peterson Receives First Annual BYU Inspiring Learning-Experiential Learning Award
Electrical Engineering's own Dr. Cammy Peterson received the first annual Inspiring Learning Award - Experiential Learning from BYU Careers and Experiential Learning on 16 April, 2021.
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Electrical Engineering: A Pathway to New Forms of Creativity
Electrical Engineering senior Keaton Shurilla pictures a future where he can roll up to the club and experience a 360-degree audio system - not through strategically-spaced speakers, but through speakers with the technological prowess to project sound everywhere in the room. In that imagined future, he wants someone across the world to tune in with a virtual reality system so sophisticated it feels like they’re in the club with him. He is combining his passions for technology and the arts to make that future more feasible.
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Robotics Team "Hungry Hungry Hippos" Chews Up the Competition
The Experiential Learning Center hosted the second semi-annual robotics competition on March 26, 2021, with six finalist teams competing for the $500 grand prize.
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New BYU algorithm making ID verification more secure by tracking facial movements
Like every other human biometric identification system before it, there are still significant security flaws in some of the most advanced identity verification technology. BYU computer and electrical engineering professor D.J. Lee has decided there is a better and more secure way to use your face for restricted access.
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Dr. Wood Chiang creates ADC with record-breaking power efficiency
Professor Wood Chiang and his students have created an analog-to-digital converter with record-breaking power efficiency, and their breakthrough is featured in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
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ECEN Interviews: Jesse Richmond
Meet Jesse Richmond! He’s a second-year Master’s student from Mount Pleasant, Utah emphasizing in electrical engineering. He works under Dr. Willie Harrison in joint source-channel coding research, looking at how to compress data and then protect it from transmission errors in one step. This well-rounded gentleman also helped BYU sweep the short story contest earlier this semester! He placed as a runner up in the short fiction category for a quirky, humorous story he wrote titled “Solomon’s Lines.” Take it away, Jesse!
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Dr. Randy Beard receives AIAA fellowship
Dr. Randy Beard has been elected a Fellow, Class of 2021 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world’s largest aerospace professional society.
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ECEn Interviews: Autumn Twitchell
Meet Autumn Twitchell! She is a first-year Masters student from Folsom, California working under Dr. Rice in aeronautical telemetry. She will be the first in a series of ECEN Interviews celebrating our students, inspired by the Cougar Queries.
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What Has Eta Kappa Nu Been Up To?
Our BYU chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the IEEE honor society for electrical engineering students, has big plans for this semester despite roadblocks from a pesky pandemic. The chapter has been striving to build a sense of community within the department between students and professors, and it has more ideas on the horizon for furthering the chapter’s goals.
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PICs Update: CubeSats go seen but unheard
The population of Earth’s orbit grew ten satellites larger Sunday, Jan. 17., when NASA’s Virgin Orbit launch vehicle released ten student-built satellites into space. Two of them - the Passive Inspection Cubesats (PICs) - came from Dr. David Long and his team of students. The PICs entered Earth’s orbit successfully, and the team is now pursuing the next steps.
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Dr. Lee Crushes the Dreams of Up-and-Coming Identity Thieves
If you’ve ever had the inclination to break into top-secret laboratories, now would be the time to do it.
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ECE Christmas Party Proves Faculty and Students Have Life Outside EB
Even though students couldn’t touch one another with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole at this year’s department Christmas party (held Thursday, December 10th), it was virtually (get it?) the best party ever thrown!
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