Kylie Lay

Each summer, many students do engineering research at BYU. This research is faculty-mentored and helps students apply course material, prepare for graduate school, get published, and much more! Many of these student researchers are from BYU, but there are a handful who come from other schools for this experience!

This past week, Dr. Wood Chiang and Trevor Reay, an Electrical Engineering student here at BYU, had the unique opportunity to conduct research at Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island, New York in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Christopher Kitras and Ashton Palacios, two BYU Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students, designed and developed a seven-segment sign alongside Dinah Bronson and Dr. Phil Lundrigan that was recently featured at PyCon. The system can run video games such as Doom and classic arcade games and even display videos.

Unleash your innovative side with this unique opportunity to learn! BYU’s STEM camp offers a unique hands-on experience to learning the basics of building and programming something from scratch. The program is one week long, and is for students entering 10th and 11th grade. The projects students will be working on range from biology to mechanical engineering to building robots. This year, we have two exciting new projects designed by members of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Last week, Sharisse Poff and Daniel Tebbs, working with Dr. Chiang and Dr. Davis, were awarded first place in the Engineering track at the i-ETC conference for their paper titled "Pulsatile Impedance Monitoring Circuit.” Each year, the Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC) is held at a participating university, this year being at BYU. Sharisse and Daniel are both graduate students at BYU studying electrical engineering who share a passion for biomedical applications of engineering.