Undergraduates Contributing to ECE Research: Mireille Ghoussoub
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. Mireille Ghoussoub is going into her fourth year in Electrical Option of Engineering Physics. She is working closely with Dr. Peyman Servati’s research group, especially Dr. Bobak Gholamkhass and PhD student Saeedeh Ebrahimi Takalloo this summer. What research project […]
Undergraduates Contributing to ECE Research: Omar Omari
Each summer, undergraduate students make significant contributions to research projects at ECE while working as interns. This is the first of four interviews with undergraduate research interns working closely with ECE faculty members and graduate students. Omar Omari is a 3rd year ECE student in the biomedical option. His research internship is supervised by Dr. […]
Caitlin Schneider Receives Inaugural Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship
The ICICS Graduate Affairs Committee has selected ECE doctoral student Caitlin Schneider as the inaugural recipient of the Motion Metrics/ICICS Graduate Scholarship. Motion Metrics International is an ICICS-incubated start-up company founded by President and CEO Shahram Tafazoli 12 years ago after completing his PhD in ECE at UBC. Now internationally successful, the company provides integrated […]
Green Radio Communication Networks Released by Cambridge University Press
Green Radio Communication Networks, edited by Ekram Hossain, Vijay K. Bhargava and Gerhard P. Fettweis was recently published in the UK and Europe by Cambridge University Press. The importance of reducing energy costs, reducing CO2 emissions and protecting the environment are leading to an increased focus on green, energy-efficient approaches to the design of next-generation […]
Researchers Win Best Paper at IPCAI
The ECE research team of PhD students Mohammad Najafi and Narges Afsham, Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi and Dr. Robert Rohling won the best paper award at the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Intervention (IPCAI). The paper describes methods of improving the accuracy of locating 3D ultrasound images used for image-guided surgeries and procedures. Ultrasound […]
$1.65M Grant Supports Electronic-Photonic Circuit Research
NSERC has awarded a $1.65 million Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant to support the “Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits” (Si-EPIC) program; a research program led by Lukas Chrostowski that will help prepare young engineers for careers in industry, government and academia. The Si-EPIC aims to train students across Canada in information and communication technology […]
First and Best at AUTO21
At this year’s Toyota Canada AUTO21 HQP Poster National Competition, a team of UBC engineers won Best in Theme A (Health, Safety and Injury Prevention), tied for first place overall, and brought home a $4,000 cash prize for their poster, “Injury Prevention Through Adaptive Seat Design”. Led by Dr. Douglas Romilly of Mechanical Engineering (MECH), […]
Print Your Own Invention
In a recent interview done with Scott Simpson of The Vancouver Sun, Dr. Leo Stocco talks about the advantages of stereolithography: a 3-D printing technology that can produce prototypes of design and parts. Students working with the 3-D technology can quickly see their designs come off the page and into three-dimensional reality. “It just allows […]
RoboCup North American Open
Come cheer for your UBC Thunderbots as they compete against the best teams in the world in artificial intelligence and robotics on home turf, June 9 to June 15 at the Engineering Design Center! Learn about our autonomous soccer-playing robots and the technology and people that keep them scoring goals. You may even get a […]
ECE Convocation 2012
From freshmen to graduates, it’s time for us to say farewell to some of our ECE students, but not before a celebratory luncheon at the Fred Kaiser Atrium. Ashley Bardal (far L) and Nick Geisler(far R) smile while Yazad Daruvala (mid L) and Derek Meyer (mid R) share one last embrace before parting ways. Lawrence Penkar with a family member. William Gallegos smiles […]