Faculty Achievements
November 15, 2011 | Faculty Achievements
Congratulations to Samantha Grist – Killam Doctoral Fellowship
Samantha Grist has been awarded the esteemed Killam Doctoral Fellowship by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Doctoral Fellowships are awarded every year to the most exceptional doctoral degree candidates at UBC. The fellowships are the University’s most prestigious merit-based graduate award. Samantha is pursuing her doctoral degree under the supervision of Dr. Karen Cheung and Dr. Lukas Chrostowski in the area of Microsystems and Nanotechnoloy.
May 17, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
ECE's LERSSE Password Meters
Do password meters create stronger passwords? ECE's LERSSE members, in collaboration with Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley wrote Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection. Password meters tell users whether their passwords are "weak" or "strong". In a laboratory experiment, by forcing users to change their current passwords, they found that having the meters did have users selecting stronger passwords. In a follow-up field experiment for unimportant accounts, the authors found that the meters did not change the outcome of the users’ passwords.
May 7, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Konrad Walus interview in International Innovation
Konrad Walus was recently interviewed by International Innovation Magazine. In the interview Dr. Walus describes some of the groundbreaking research being done by the interdisciplinary team in the Walus Lab. A focus of the lab is 3D printing and micro printing technology that are employed to build devices incorporating nanomaterials in new ways. Work in the lab develops active electronics, mechanically and chemically sensitive devices and the use of a 3D bio-printer for tissue fabrication.
April 16, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Matthew Yedlin Receives Killam Teaching Award
Matthew Yedlin has won a Killam Teaching Prize this year. Also selected from the Faculty of Applied Science were Dr. Perry Adebar (Department of Civil Engineering) and Dr. Geertje Boschma (School of Nursing). Congratulations to all!
April 10, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Takahata and Nojeh on the Front Cover of Physica Status Solidi (a)
Congratulations to Alireza Nojeh and Ken Takahata from the MEMS lab who had their journal paper recently published as the front cover publication in the Physica Status Solidi (a) April 2013 issue!
March 20, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Moradi appointed Early Career Scholar
Congratulations Dr. Mehdi Moradi on your appointment as a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar during the 2013-2014 academic year.
March 19, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Dr. Takahata renewed as Canada Research Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Kenichi Takahata was recently renewed as Canada Research Chair in Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS. Prof. Takahata will study medical micro-devices for intelligent implants and microsurgical applications to enable minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy. Targeted devices include adaptive stents and stent grafts, brain aneurysm wireless sensors, and devices for MRI guided surgery.
January 9, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Vijay Bhargava receives IEEE Outstanding Service Gold Medal
IEEE Canada has recognized Vijay Bhargava's sustained and distinguished service to Region 7 by awarding him the 2012 IEEE Canada W.S. Read Outstanding Service Gold Medal. Vijay's many years of service for IEEE Region 7 (Canada) began in Montreal. He served as Student Branch counsellor at Concordia, then in various capacities including Section Chair, and later similarly in Victoria Section. In 1987 he founded the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference in Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, the now well-established, biennial conference in Victoria.
January 2, 2013 | Faculty Achievements
Nojeh's Heat Trap recently covered by UBC Reports
The 'heat-trap' effect of carbon nanotubes can be used to efficiently heat a conductor to one thousand degrees. Read about it in the UBC Reports story about Dr. Nojeh's research titled, A New Generation of Solar Power, Part 2, This story is linked to the discussion of Dr.Burke's work on organic solar cells in Part 1 of this article.
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December 10, 2012 | Faculty Achievements
Collaborative Research in Prostate Cancer Technology: Mehdi Moradi
Dr. Mehdi Moradi is working to develop a method to allow more targeted prostate cancer treatment. Hired by ECE in May 2012 using a donation made to the Department of Urologic Sciences, Dr. Moradi is teaming up with researchers in both departments as well as the Vancouver Prostate Centre. He has already published a journal article on creating cancer “probability maps” for better detection and grading of prostate tumours.
