Faculty Achievements
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.
June 24, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Congratulations Roberto and Steve
Big congratulations to Roberto Rosales and Steve Wilton who both received a Dean's Award for Excellence in Service yesterday.
May 13, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
Print your own chip in just six weeks: UBC offers first-ever 100% online photonics course
We are on the cusp of revolutionary changes in communication and microsystems technology. Engineers are bringing together photonics (manipulation of information using photons) and electronics (information processing using electrons) on a single platform (silicon). Electronic–photonic circuits will have a huge impact on high-speed communications for mobile devices, optical communications inside computers and in data centres, sensor systems, and medical applications.
April 14, 2015 | Faculty Achievements
New app from UBC research team wins CWTA Connected to the Community Award
Respiration rate is an important diagnostic tool in many serious diseases such as pneumonia. The current, recommended method for measuring respiratory rate is counting breaths for one minute. This method is not efficient in a busy clinical setting.
