Student Achievements
November 27, 2013 | Student Achievements
Energy Aware's successful Kickstarter campaign funds energy saving sensor
Neurio is a sensor made by Energy Aware that tracks the use of power by appliances in the home. The company raised nearly $267,373 through Kickstarter to help bring the sensor to market. This terrific invention originated as Janice Cheam's team project in New Venture Design, a course that brings business students together with engineering students. Now Janice runs the company bringing this idea to market.
November 13, 2013 | Student Achievements
ECE team recieve Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SENSOR
Babak Assadsangabi, Xing Chen, Dan Brox and Prof. Kenichi Takahata received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SENSORS Conference for their submission titled, Microfabrication of Capacitive Pressure Sensors Using Ferrofluid Sacrificial Layer.
October 23, 2013 | Student Achievements
Beyer and Mohamed win Microsystem Design Award for 3D bioprinting to enhance drug testing
Today it takes an average of $5 billion and 10-15 years to develop a drug. One of the primary reasons for the high cost and time spent is the poor predictive accuracy of the front end drug discovery process. Conventional drug development and testing methods rely on the use of 2D cell cultures and animal models. 2D cell cultures are grown on flat, hard surfaces that prevent cells from interacting with their environment in a natural way. 3D cultures are grown in a flexible, protein environment that more closely mimics conditions within the body.
October 22, 2013 | Student Achievements
APSC Music Night Video
Watch the performances from this year's Music Night. It has been a tradition at ECE to have a music night each year so that students and faculty members can get some time off from research and enjoy their colleagues' music performances. In 2013 all of APSC was invited to participate. The goal of the event each year is to enjoy each other’s music and experience different genres of music and of course music of different nations. This event was organized by ECE and BMEGA.
October 11, 2013 | Student Achievements
New technology can prevent cellular overload, dropped calls
New research finds a way to opportunistically use television and radio channels to transmit cellular signals when systems are pushed beyond capacity.
When a natural disaster strikes and too many people take to their mobile phones at once, cellular networks easily overload. But a University of British Columbia graduate student has developed a solution to ensure that calls don’t get dropped and texts make it to their destination.
August 28, 2013 | Student Achievements
Graph-based Sybil Detection in Social and Information Systems receives Best Paper Award
Yazan Boshmaf and his LERSSE research colleagues received a Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their paper, Graph-based Sybil detection in social and information systems. Defending against sybil attack is essential for today's online sytstems. In this paper, Yazan and his co-authors present an analytical framework to evaluate graphic-based sybil Detection algorithms, a common method to defend against Sybil attack.
Sybil Attacks
July 31, 2013 | Student Achievements
Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE)
Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE) led by Prof. Konstantin Beznosov.
Engineers in LERSSE do empirical research to improve the ability and the security of real-world applications. Research projects span a wide range of topics, including network security, enterprise security architectures, secure software engineering, the usability aspects of security mechanisms, and critical infrastructure interdependencies.
June 20, 2013 | Student Achievements
Nima Taherinejad, New Chair of AUTO21 HQP Advisory Committee
As newly elected chair of the HQP Advisory Committee (HQPAC), Nima Taherinejad hopes to increase student engagement in AUTO21 Network activities.
May 29, 2013 | Student Achievements, Three Across
Welcome to our visiting students from IIT-Jodhpur!
This summer, five students from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J) will be joining ECE to collaborate on projects from the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) initiative.
The five visiting students, Rinku Meena, Rahul Malav, Rajat Jain, Yogendra Goyal and Junaid Masood, met with faculty members to discuss potential projects at an informal welcome last Friday.
