Dr. Boris Stoeber Receives NSERC DAS Grant
Professor Boris Stoeber has been awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant, a $120,000 award distributed over three years. The DAS Program provides substantial and timely resources to a small group of researchers who have a well-established research program and who show strong potential to become international leaders in their respective area of research. In particular, for […]
ECE Students Win NYC Next Idea Competition
Congratulations to Andy Tsai, Jinting Zhu, Carol Lee and Peter Guan! The group, sponsored by the Radio Science Lab, have just been announced the winners of the NYC Big Idea competition. They will receive a $15,000 prize in addition to 6 months of free office space in New York City in which to launch their […]
Congratulations to the Project Fair Winners
Thank you to everyone who came out to support the IEEE Student Project Fair on Wednesday April, 6th 2011. All of the projects showed great ingenuity which made deliberation a difficult task for the judges. In the end the following winners were announced: Junior Division First Prize: PIP Group 7Derek Graebel, Diana Sutandie, Ahmad Sharkia, Darwin […]
ECE Lutz Lampe wins Best Paper Award at 2011 IEEE ISPLC
Professor Lutz Lampe has won the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), which was held in Udine, Italy, April 3-6, 2011. His paper “Bursty Impulse Noise Detection by Comressed Sensing” was selected by an Awards Committee as the top paper of this conference. […]
ECE Vikram Krishnamurthy wins UBC Killam Research Prize
Congratulations to Professor Vikram Krishnamurthy for being awarded a 2010 UBC Killam Research Prize. Established in 1986, the UBC Killam Research Prizes are awarded annually to top campus researchers. Up to ten prizes in the amount of $5,000 each are awarded to fulltime faculty members in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions. Vikram Krishnamurthy received his […]
New Curriculum: Educating Global Leaders
Engineering and the place engineering takes in society is evolving rapidly. The systems an engineering design is expected to incorporate are increasing. Similarly, the roles an engineer may play throughout his or her career have expanded. This affects how our graduates will be employed as well as the set of skills they will be expected […]
3MT Competition Winners
Thank you to everyone who came out to support the 3MT Competition on Monday afternoon. A special thanks to Professors Meeko Oishi, Sathish Gopalakrishnan and Shahriar Mirabbasi for taking time out of their schedules to judge the competition. The event was a big success and the judges had the difficult task of choosing between many […]
Nikola Zlatanov receives Young Scientist of the Year Award
The president of the Republic of Macedonia awarded PhD student Nikola Zlatanov the Young Scientist of the Year Award this week. Nikola came to UBC in 2010 after completing his Master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Working with Dr. Robert Schober, Nikola will pursue his research interests in digital communications […]
Systems-on-a-Chip Graduate Research: Nima Sadeghi’s High Temperature Smart Chip
Reliable circuit operation at high temperature is required for several high-tech industries most notably: automotive control, space craft micro-electronics, the food industry, oil and gas exploration, and multi-phase chemical reactors like those used in the pulp and paper industry. Many applications require analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics to operate at elevated temperatures to support and process […]
Professor David Michelson and MASc Student Simon Chiu Win Best Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
Professor David Michelson and his former MASc student Simon Chiu have won a Best Paper Award. Their paper entitled “Effect of human presence on UWB radio wave propagation within the passenger cabin of a midsize airliner” was published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 917-926, March 2010, and […]