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Secure and Efficient Trade with Asia: ECE’s Aurora project is breaking the bottlenecks in commercial transport

Secure and Efficient Trade with Asia: ECE’s Aurora project is breaking the bottlenecks in commercial transport

For many of us, the daily commute is a routine activity to or from work. However, every now and then, accidents, construction or poor weather conditions cause delays and aggravation. When shipping materials is your livelihood, these delays cost time, money and have an impact on the environment. The UBC Aurora project, led by Dave […]

Joining BC’s Electric Vehicle Cloud: ECE’s Kaiser building powers transportation of UBC’s fleet

Joining BC’s Electric Vehicle Cloud: ECE’s Kaiser building powers transportation of UBC’s fleet

Music, pictures and video are common uses for cloud storage. Now the province of BC is adapting the cloud paradigm to collect the data of over 450 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. With statistics on when, where and for how long EVs are charging, decision makers with the province and at BC Hydro can better […]

New Faculty Member joins ECE

New Faculty Member joins ECE

ECE is pleased to welcome our new faculty member Sudip Shekhar.  Prof. Shekhar has recently joined ECE, coming to the Department from the Intel Corporation, Circuits Research Laboratory. His research interests include circuits for high-speed I/O interfaces, Silicon Photonics, RF transceivers and sensor interfaces. Prof. Shekhar has already contributed to our electronic circuits and signal […]

Changing the Grid

For over one hundred years, the electric grid has been supplying power to critical infrastructure, but the existing grid is becoming obsolete. The systems put in place over a century ago were not designed for today’s needs; our energy consumption increases while, at the same time, the world’s population grows. It is crucial to improve […]

Beyer and Mohamed win Microsystem Design Award for 3D bioprinting to enhance drug testing

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 […]

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 […]

New technology can prevent cellular overload, dropped calls

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 […]

Tim Salcudean named MICCAI Fellow

Tim Salcudean named MICCAI Fellow

Prof. Tim Salcudean was elected as a Fellow of The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI Society) for his outstanding contribution in the field of biomedical engineering. Prof. Salcudean has made significant contributions in the areas of: Optimization-based Computer-Aided Design of Control Systems and Robots, Teleoperation, Haptic Interfaces and Virtual Environments, Medical […]

Vikram Krishnamurthy receives Honorary Doctorate from KTH

Vikram Krishnamurthy receives Honorary Doctorate from KTH

Congratulations to Prof. Vikram Krishnamurthy for receiving an Honorary Doctorate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Vikram Krishnamurthy is the Senior Canada Research Chair in Signal Processing and world-leading researcher in the area of signal processing. Prof. Krishnamurthy is a frequent guest researcher at KTH. He has given courses and supervised doctoral students from […]

Turkey 2K Trot

Turkey 2K Trot

Members of ECE participated in the Turkey 2K Trot Today. Everyone was having fun in this great event hosted by United Way and the Faculty of Applied Science!