Prof. Abolmaesumi receives NSERC Accelerator Grant for i-Guide-U
Spinal needle injections are widely applied for anesthetic purposes: for surgery, for the relief of back pain, and for epidurals in obstetrics. More than two million North Americans undergo these procedures each year. However, about 60,000 patients per year experience complications associated with inaccurate placement of the needle. These complications have three consequences: (1) an increase in pain, […]
Research Open Day
ECE@UBC has a large, diverse and successful research community, offering many collaboration opportunities for local and national companies. The Research Open Day provides an occasion to engage with members of the department, see the lateset research and network within the wider community. Senior researchers from ECE will give short, high-level talks on their recent advances […]
ECE’s LERSSE Password Meters
Do password meters create stronger passwords? ECE’s LERSSE members, in collaboration with Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley wrote Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection. Password meters tell users whether their passwords are “weak” or “strong”. In a laboratory experiment, by forcing users to change their current […]
Meet two rising stars from ECE
Harshanvit Chhatwal and Trevor Condon, two ECE graduates from the class of 2013, were asked to share some of their insights and experiences as recent graduates. You can read the stories of outstanding students from all of the Applied Science disciplines in the 2013 edition of APSC Rising Stars.
Konrad Walus interview in International Innovation
Konrad Walus was recently interviewed by International Innovation Magazine. In the interview Dr. Walus describes some of the groundbreaking research being done by the interdisciplinary team in the Walus Lab. A focus of the lab is 3D printing and micro printing technology that are employed to build devices incorporating nanomaterials in new ways. Work in […]
New partnership supports smart grid research
smart grid Prof. Andre Ivanov (ECE), Fred Kaiser (Alpha), Brent Perry (Corvus), Prof. Stephen Toope (UBC President), and Pierre Ouillet (UBC VP Finance) A new partnership between the University of British Columbia, Alpha Technologies Ltd., and Corvus Energy has brought a new prototype smart grid to the University campus. Research and data generated by the […]
Partnering with UBC’s Living Lab: interview with Victor Goncalves, Director of Research and Systems Engineering at Alpha Technologies
How will participating in UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab help to answer key research and development questions for Alpha Technologies? The smart grid is coming. Smart grid technology is required to increase the production of energy from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, biomass and geothermal. In some North American regions, targets have been […]
Vancouver campus deploys new $5.1M ‘smart grid’ energy storage system
UBC President Stephen Toope today unveiled a new energy storage system, or prototype smart grid, created in partnership with Alpha Technologies Ltd. and Corvus Energy. The project integrates one megawatt hour of stored energy — enough to power an average home for 1,000 hours — into a power grid that supports three major campus facilities. […]
Dr. Matthew Yedlin Receives Killam Teaching Award
Matthew Yedlin has won a Killam Teaching Prize this year. Also selected from the Faculty of Applied Science were Dr. Perry Adebar (Department of Civil Engineering) and Dr. Geertje Boschma (School of Nursing). Congratulations to all! Dr. Yedlin’s most recent pedagogical work has been in the development of an interdisciplinary course titled “Living With Nuclear […]
Takahata and Nojeh on the Front Cover of Physica Status Solidi (a)
Congratulations to Alireza Nojeh and Ken Takahata from the MEMS lab who had their journal paper recently published as the front cover publication in the Physica Status Solidi (a) April 2013 issue! The paper titled High-power MEMS switch enabled by carbon-nanotube contact and shape-memory-alloy actuator focuses on micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) technology and how combining vertically aligned […]