Professor Tim Salcudean Co-Investigator on CIHR Grant
Congratulation to Professor Tim Salcudean who along with Principal Investigator Dr. Piotr Kozlowski of UBC and fellow co-investigators Dr. Silvia Chang, Dr. Larry Goldenberg, Dr. Edward Jones and Dr. Mehdi Moradi on being a awarded a CIHR Operating Grant. Their project titled “Multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis and prognosis” will receive a $627,332 contribution over the […]
Graduate Students Awarded Scholarships
Congratulations to Electrical and Computer Engineering students Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali and Jonas Flueckiger who are among the first recipients of the ICICS Graduate Scholarship. The $5000 scholarship recognizes ICICS-affiliated graduate students who are excelling in their studies and whose work aligns with the ICICS mandate to promote multidisciplinary research its members and students, and […]
UBC Engineering Students Awarded at AUTO21 Conference
Congratulations to UBC Engineering students who won two awards at the AUTO21 Scientific Conference held in Ottawa May 25 – 27, 2011. Two posters were submitted and competed against over 50 others being judged on six different themes. The prized poster, headed by Ph.D. Electrical Engineering student Nima Ziraknejad and assisted by Electrical Engineering undergraduate […]
Biomedical Engineering: solving real world problems
Biomedical engineering challenges students to solve real world problems and assist members of our community. In ECE’s Biomedical Instrumentation course students do lab projects and open-ended design projects for people with specific, therapeutic needs. In the last few years the open-ended project has been a design proposed and implemented by the students for a person […]
Dr. Michelson to receive Tourism Vancouver’s Betty Fata Award
Tourism Vancouver has invited Prof. David G. Michelson to accept the “2011 Betty Fata Award for Conference Leadership” on behalf of IEEE Vancouver Section at the Tourism Vancouver Annual General Meeting to be be held on Wednesday, 22 June 2011. The Award recognizes an individual or individuals who have taken the lead in bringing a major conference or event to […]
Reflex Wireless
Reflex Wireless, the winner of the NYC Big Idea competition earlier this year, is off to Toronto, Ontario this weekend to showcase their design at e-Health 2011. The conference will showcase healthcare services, equipment and products to general public and industry professionals. UBC students Andy Tsai, Jinting Zhu, Carol Lee and Peter Guan “developed a […]
‘Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications’ Published
Congratulations to Professor Vijay Bhargava on the publication of the book ‘Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications’ by Cambridge University Press. Bhargava is a co-editor along with Professor Ekram Hossain from the University of Manitoba and Professor Dong In Kim from the Sungkyunkwan University of Korea. More information on publication is available here.
ECE Student Wins Prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship
PhD student, Toufiqul Islam, supervised by Professors Robert Schober and Vijay Bhargava, recently received the prestigious NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The Scholarship aims to retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students that have demonstrated both leadership capabilities and a high standard of scholarly achievement. The Scholarship awards recipients with $50,000 for three years. In […]
Postdoctoral Fellow Receives NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Diomidis Michalopoulos, supervised by Professor Robert Schober, received the NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Recipients of Fellowship receive in $70,000/year for two years in support of research initiatives. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship aims to attract top postdoctoral talent, nationally and internationally, to develop leadership potential and position the recipients to become the top researchers […]
Professor Robert Schober Nominated for Canadian Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Professor Robert Schober for being nominated into the Canadian Academy of Engineering. The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) includes many of the country’s most accomplished engineers, who have expressed their dedication to the application of science and engineering principles in the interests of the country and its enterprises. Members of the Academy are […]