Faculty Achievements
June 11, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
Vijay Bhargava wins Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research
Professors Vijay Bhargava and Frank Kschischang at the awards celebration on the St Lawrence River
The Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research is a career award recognizing distinguished contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the field of telecommunications.
May 29, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
SALT Lab wins Distinguished Paper Award at International Conference on Software Engineering
Web applications have become one of the fastest growing types of software system today. Despite their popularity, understanding the behaviour of modern web applications is still challenging for developers during development and maintenance tasks. The challenges mainly stem from the dynamic, event-driven, and asynchronous nature of the JavaScript language.
May 28, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
Aspect Biosystems goes to Round 3 of the BCIC New Ventures Competition
Aspect Biosystems made it into the top 15 companies in the BCIC New Ventures Competition; one of North America’s largest technology business idea competitions. Early-stage entrepreneurs get support from the BC Innovation Council through education, mentorship, and exposure to help build a successful company while competing to win one of several prize packages.
May 27, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
Lukas Chrostowski receives the UBC Killam Teaching Prize
In honour of his outstanding contribution to ECE’s curriculum and his dedication to enriching learning experiences, Professor Lukas Chrostowski received the UBC Killam Teaching Prize today.
April 22, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
Takahata and Nojeh included in Best of Physica Status Solidi 2014
A publication by Profs. Takahata and Nojeh will be included in this year's addition of the Best of Physica Status Solidi. In this sought-after paper, one of the most accessed in 2013, the research team reports results from integrating a normally open, shape-memory-alloy based MEMS switch with a carbon-nanotube (CNT) forest used as a contact material.
April 1, 2014 | Faculty Achievements, Featured
Who owns a 100 year-old car? Dr. Ordonez speaks to our energy challenges during CRC announcement
Subject:
smart grid
Prof. Ordonez speaks to The Minister of National Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay during a tour of the Alpha Power Lab, photo: Rich Lam
March 11, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
LionsGate receives major funding to increase production/distribution
A medical technology invented by UBC faculty receives major funding to scale up production and distribution to the developing world.
March 4, 2014 | Faculty Achievements, Featured
Nobuo Tanaka visits UBC's Alpha Lab
Subject:
Campus as a Living Lab
Alex Tunner, Nobuo Tanaka, Martin Ordonez
ECE was pleased to host Nobuo Tanaka, Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability at the Institute for Energy Economics, Japan and Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo.
February 26, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
Scientists create powerful artificial muscle with fishing line
Seyed Mohammad Mirvakili shows a coiled nylon filament (0.8mm in diameter); it is capable of lifting a 2 litre soda bottle.
John Madden and team published artificial muscle research in Science!
“In terms of the strength and power of the artificial muscle, we found that it can quickly lift weights 100 times heavier than a same-sized human muscle can, in a single contraction,” says Madden. “It also has a higher power output for its weight than that of an automobile combustion engine.”
February 12, 2014 | Faculty Achievements
CIHR Funding Helps Improve Lives of Cancer Patients
Many men have received unnecessary radical treatments for prostate cancer, due to unreliable methods for assessing risk and metastasis. Dr. Mehdi Moradi, and Dr. Peter Black at the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences, hope to change this. Their latest project, which recently received $100,000 in research funding from CIHR, aims to build a tissue classifier that will enhance the diagnosis and risk assessment of prostate cancer.
