Faculty Achievements
January 5, 2016 | Faculty Achievements
Every Good Spaceship Needs a Good Autodoc
An automated system for delivering anesthetic developed at UBC‬ just completed a 400 patient clinical trial and is ready for the next step towards regular inclusion in clinical practice. Icontrol-RP automatically dispenses medication every five seconds. The level of anesthetic is carefully controlled for individual patients during surgery.
"We give exactly what that particular patient needs. Nothing more, nothing less," says Professor Guy Dumont.
December 3, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Newly Elevated IEEE Fellow Vincent Wong
Professor Vincent Wong will be elevated to the grade of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers this January; congratulations Dr. Wong!
December 1, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Get from Theory to Practice with Professor Nick Jaeger
Prof. Jaeger receives 2015 Senior Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
October 15, 2015 | Faculty Achievements, Featured
To Compete with the Best
NSERC Accelerator Grants help to bring ECE research to Canadian Industry
September 8, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Securing the Internet of Things
Dependable Systems Lab wins Distinguished Paper Award at EDCC 2015
Everyone who owns a computer knows a thing or two about security software. One thing we have all learned is that security software can be cumbersome. On a system as complex, personalized and terrifically useful as a laptop, the benefits of running security software outweigh the costs.
August 25, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
The Academic Entrepreneur
Adjunct Professor Brad Quinton launches his second successful start-up, Invionics
August 11, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Sunlight to Electricity: With a little help from some purple bacteria
Could we efficiently generate electricity through photosynthesis like a plant, store energy organically, use components that do not harm the environment and use up carbon dioxide while doing it? Sounds good but how could we get there?
Meet the purple bacteria.
July 29, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Aspect Biosystems: A Vancouver Visionary
The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) identified UBC start-up, Aspect Biosystems, as one of three companies that exemplify Vancouver's entrepreneurial buzz. The 3D bioprinting company was chosen because it demonstrates the strength Vancouver businesses derive from combining great ideas with a stable business climate, a first-class education system and a close association with the natural environment. The impact UBC has had on Vancouver's climate of innovation can be seen in how this research, started in ECE’s Walus Lab, has flourished in the last two years.
July 8, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Our new Professor brings ECE a new big data course
According to the ex-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, “every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003″. Massive amounts of data at our disposal and exponential advances in computing technology enabling us to process it, ushered in the era of “big data”.
July 2, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Re-thinking the AC-DC Balance
Many home electronics, such as your computer, or anything else that uses a battery, run on direct current (DC). These devices use a converter to transform the alternating current (AC) supplied at the wall socket into the DC they need. Big data centers and telecommunications also use DC. The proliferation of these devices has increased global electricity consumption by 27% in the past decade, and DC use is projected to increase even further with the addition of 20 million battery-powered electric vehicles by 2020.
