ECE team win Best Paper Award at ICFPT
Prof. Steve Wilton, together with recently graduated PhD student Eddie Huang and undergraduate student Al-Shahna Jamal, received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology for their submission titled, Maximum Flow Algorithms for Maximum Observability During FPGA Debug. Prof. Wilton and his team work in the System-on-Chip Laboratory at ECE. The paper describes techniques to […]
Best Paper Award to Eddie Hung, Al-Shahna Jamal and Steve Wilton
The Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology in Kyoto, Japan went to ECE’s Eddie Hung, Al-Shahna Jamal and Prof. Wilton for their paper titled, “Maximum Flow Algorithms for Maximum Observability During FPGA Debug”. Eddie Hung is a Post-doctoral Fellow with ECE’s Systems-on-Chip Lab, who’s PhD was supervised by Prof. Wilson and […]
Crossing boundaries between Art and Technology
When art and technology intersect, new ideas are brought to old practices. By integrating music and biomedical technologies, people will change how they are playing and enjoying music. Christina Couch, of Get in Media, spoke to a number of researchers working with flexible sensors and other technologies to develop new ways of making music. Sensors attached to musicians’ bodies produce […]
Students work to keep the digital world safe
Jae-Hwon, Jonathan, Vincent and Meghan work as a team assessing the security of an e-commerce system If you are feeling confident about the security measures you are taking in the digital world you might need to sit in on one of Prof. Benznosov’s lectures. In his Introduction to Computer Security class, students assess the security […]
Quake Global Inc. donation enables hands on education in M2M technology
Students at UBC will now be able to get hands-on experience in developing satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, thanks to a donation from Quake Global, Inc., a leading manufacturer of M2M devices for terrestrial and satellite networks. “We are very grateful to QUAKE for providing these state-of-the-art tools for our students,” said Professor David Michelson, who heads […]
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 […]
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. The team concluded that ferrofluid is a practical sacrificial layer material in fabricating capacitive pressure sensors. The sensor fabrication process is simple and […]
Getting paid to use energy at just the right time: benefits of load management
By aggregating and controlling the energy use of large-scale equipment, load management can offer industry and municipalities a new source of revenue without sacrificing productivity. The idea behind load management is to carefully control the use of flexible loads, loads that are less time sensitive such as water heaters or the heating or cooling systems […]
What Really Moves a Ouija Board?
Image by Sarah Mae Worden, courtesy of Inner Intelligence Project The answer has ranged from spirits to pranksters. For over 100 years scientists have attributed this movement to the ideometer effect, referring to unintentional small muscle movements occurring outside of conscious control. At the UBC Visual Cognition Lab, engineering, computer science and psychology have joined forces to […]
Smoothing the Bumps in Energy Reliability: ECE explores energy storage for sustainability
Heating up buildings in the winter, cranking up the air conditioner in the summer and lighting up our work places are routine events in our daily rhythm, but what would happen if the energy powering these activities was not there when you needed it? UBC operations and ECE faculty together with the industry partners Alpha […]