Brazilian students help build sensor network for a very tall wooden building
Ramon Duarte de Melo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Henrique de Souza Magnago, Federal University of Santa Maria Science without Borders has brought two Brazilian students to ECE to help develop a sensor network for UBC’s Tall Wooden Building. Ramon and Henrique are working with Jason Khuu, a recent graduate of ECE and […]
IIT Jodhpur students explore ways to keep UBC’s smart grid secure and efficient
Four students from the Indian Institute of Technology – Jodhpur recently visited ECE to work on UBC’s smart grid. Over the course of their ten-week stay they advanced UBC’s research on Smart Buildings and Smart Grid Cyber Security. ECE has been hosting students from IIT-Johdpur for three years. Students received financial support from both the […]
Statistical models improve ultrasound-guided spinal injections | A Best Paper
Purang Abolmaesumi, Robert Rohling and conference chair Pierre Jannin at the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, Fukuoka Japan A recent paper from ECE’s Robotics and Control Lab won this year’s Philips/IPCAI Audience Best Presentation Award. The paper describes the methods behind a multi-centre study on how 3D ultrasound, when linked to a […]
Congratulations Darla and Sathish
Two members of the Department were recently recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Faculty by Dean Marc Parlange: Darla La Pierre and Sathish Gopalakrishnan. Dean Parlange praised Darla’s service to APSC. “Year after year, Darla La Pierre has consistently shown extraordinary talent and resourcefulness to help the ECE department meet its academic and operational […]
UBC Sailbot team wins the International Robotic Sailing Regatta. Again.
Thunderbird 2013, the boat created by UBC’s Sailbot team, won the recent regatta hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, held at the California Maritime Academy. This is the second year in a row that the UBC team finished in first place in this incredibly challenging International Robotic Sailing Regatta. Over a period of five […]
Vijay Bhargava wins Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research
Professors Vijay Bhargava and Frank Kschischang at the awards celebration on the St Lawrence River The Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research is a career award recognizing distinguished contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the field of telecommunications. Professor Bhargava’s contributions in the 1980s were on error control coding and spread spectrum […]
SALT Lab wins Distinguished Paper Award at International Conference on Software Engineering
Web applications have become one of the fastest growing types of software system today. Despite their popularity, understanding the behaviour of modern web applications is still challenging for developers during development and maintenance tasks. The challenges mainly stem from the dynamic, event-driven, and asynchronous nature of the JavaScript language. In their paper, the Software AnaLysis […]
Aspect Biosystems goes to Round 3 of the BCIC New Ventures Competition
Aspect Biosystems made it into the top 15 companies in the BCIC New Ventures Competition; one of North America’s largest technology business idea competitions. Early-stage entrepreneurs get support from the BC Innovation Council through education, mentorship, and exposure to help build a successful company while competing to win one of several prize packages. The team has successfully made it […]
Class of 2014
Congratulations to all the freshly minted ECE graduates! We wish you all the best in the wonderful career you have chosen.