Department News
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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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Ethics and integrity program receives $40k from BYU Engineering alumnus
King Husein's donations funded an ethics-focused group within the BYU Engineering IMMERSE research program.
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Dr. Nordin a Top-Cited Author in Lab on a Chip Journal
Dr. Greg Nordin and his research team have again landed in the top 5% of highly cited authors with the Royal Society of Chemistry journals for their paper on the creation of a custom 3D printer for microfluidic devices.
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Student Highlight: Patrick Walton
If you follow BYU news, you might have heard about the CubeSat - the small, six-sided “spacecraft selfie cam” a team of our electrical engineers will soon launch into space. The handsome fellow narrating the video is PhD student Patrick Walton, and the unprecedented CubeSat project - which he started as an undergraduate - was just his warm up. In addition to the soon-to-be-launched space camera, Walton is building a fleet of tiny weather satellites with the potential to fill the gaping holes in forecasting data. He started the project, called Care Weather, in January 2019, with business partner Alex Laraway and faculty mentor Dr. David Long.
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BYU partnering with NASA to send a ‘spacecraft selfie cam’ into space on official mission
After years of engineering, testing and coordinating with engineers from NASA’s Launch Services Program, Brigham Young University students have created a cube satellite that will launch into space on an official NASA mission later this year.
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BYU blood test can detect presence of deadly superbugs in less than one hour
Four BYU professors across four disciplines — molecular biology, chemistry, integrated optics and chemical processing — have created a method to extract superbugs from whole blood, prep them for testing and then provide a diagnosis all in under one hour.
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BYU Capstone Teams with Mercury Systems for DDR4 Memory Tester
Each year, BYU Capstone partners with government agencies, corporate leaders, humanitarian organizations, and entrepreneurs to provide opportunities for senior-level engineering students in Computer, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Engineering to participate in real-world engineering challenges. Top engineering faculty and skilled industry mentors guide students through the design and development process. This year, teams of Capstone students are participating in 53 unique projects across a wide variety of industries.
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Student Highlight: Jakob Kunzler
Boy Scout camp has a cherished place in American hearts for its role in teaching the skills essential to life: wilderness survival, first aid, citizenship, and - if you’re PhD student Jakob Kunzler - calculus and differential equations.
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Graduate Student Highlight: Mark Ruzindana
Mark Ruzindana cites a few people as his inspirations: his parents and sisters, professional rock climber Tommy Caldwell, and Batman.
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Undergrad Earns Recognition for Work with Self-Driving Cars
At the same conference where grad student Farah Arabian took home third place for her presentation on mobile systems last week, another ECE student placed for his presentation on the self-driving car platform featured on BYU’s YouTube channel and the recent department tours.
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PhD Student Takes Home Award Third Year in a Row
You might recognize her name. In 2018, she won the First Place Graduate Student Award at the International Telemetry Conference (ITC), and last year she won the Myron Hiram Nichols Telemetry Spectrum Award at the ITC. This month, Farah Arabian - a PhD student studying under Dr. Rice - received another award: third place in the engineering track at the Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC) for her paper “Who’s on First in 5G Mobile Networks: Equalizers or Polarization Diversity Combiners?”. She compared two mobile phone architectures to see which outperformed the other, specifically observing how the order of combining and equalization in signal processing affected the outcomes.
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Dean Michael Jensen and former BYU Engineering faculty David Arnold win regional Entrepreneur of the Year® award
Michael Jensen, dean of the BYU Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, along with his business partner, former BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member David Arnold, have been named Entrepreneur of the Year® region winners by Ernst & Young.
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Dr. Warnick Publishes Fifth Textbook
Nearly ten years after publishing the first edition of Numerical Methods for Engineering, Professor Karl Warnick has published its new and improved successor. Numerical Methods for Engineering, 2nd Edition has new material and improvements based on a decade of feedback from students who have used the book.
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BYU Engineering involved in $26M National Science Foundation quantum internet project
BYU Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty Ryan Camacho will help develop a new NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks.
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Dean Michael Jensen and former BYU Engineering faculty David Arnold named Entrepreneur of the Year® finalists by Ernst & Young
Update 10/7/2020: Michael Jensen, dean of the BYU Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, along with his business partner, former BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member David Arnold, have been named Entrepreneur of the Year® region winners by Ernst & Young. Get the details about the win here.
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Zooming In on the Department's New Normal
For the past two weeks, the reopened Harvey’s Cafe has been blessing (or cursing) the Engineering Building with the smell of bacon, but that’s not the only change in the air. Throughout the building, doors remind visitors to wear face coverings, the floors direct them to stand six feet apart, and the bathroom sinks re-emphasize the timeless need to wash those hands. Not only does it look different, but for students and professors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, it feels different. The classes have turned upside down.
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