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Better Diagnostic Tools for Restless Legs Syndrome

Better Diagnostic Tools for Restless Legs Syndrome

Capstone Project: Smartphone-Based Electromyography System for Screening Restless Leg Syndrome in Children Clients: Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu, Pediatrician and Clinical Associate Professor and Mr. Graham McAllister, Clincial Research Trainee, Sunny Hill Health Center for Children, BC Children’s Hospital Student Team: Brittaney Geisler, Tyler MacDonald, Caleb Ng, Tina Saad Professor: Cristian Grecu Imagine you couldn’t resist twitching, rubbing or flexing […]

Extending the Reach of UBC’s Laptop Orchestra

Extending the Reach of UBC’s Laptop Orchestra

Capstone Project: Remote Image Manipulation Client: Bob Pritchard and Keith Hamel, UBC Laptop Orchestra Student Team: Adam Berg, David Hu, Mike Jensen, Justin Siu Professor: Sid Fels Have you ever gone to an electronic music performance to watch a musician’s transfixed, blue-lit face, hunched over a laptop, one or two knob twiddles the only signs […]

Repairing Canada’s Aging Bridges

Repairing Canada’s Aging Bridges

Capstone Project: Automated Bridge Image Analysis Using Drone Quadcopter Technology Client: Gamal Mustapha, VP Program Management, SMT Research Ltd. Student Team: Shawn Yuan, Micah Leuba, Michael Li, Gregory Lee, Nico Simon Professor: Paul Lusina Maintaining public infrastructure is essential and unfortunately, costly. Canada invests billions of dollars a year to repair, upgrade and expand its highways, water […]

Getting Power to the Internet of Things

Getting Power to the Internet of Things

Capstone Project: Power over Ethernet Controller   Clients: Professor Edmond Cretu, UBCNathan Wiens, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc. Student Team: Yaodong (Tom) Yu, Ruibing Zhao, Yuqian (Peter) Zhang, Yuan Liu, Zhen (William) Hong Professor: Paul Lusina Normally, electronics come with lots of wires. Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology delivers both power and data communication over a single Ethernet […]

Adding a Sixth Sense: Air Quality

Adding a Sixth Sense: Air Quality

Capstone Project: Eco-tracking GIS software   Client: Kevin Hart, CEO, Tzoa Wearables Student Team: Erin Bush, Abraham Chan, Chun Kiet Leong, Rex Yeung Professor: Terry Lee TZOA is a wearable environment tracker able to measure a number of variables affecting the quality of our surroundings such as, air pollution, UV, humidity and many more. Soon to be launched by a […]

Accelerating Rapid Damage Assessment

Accelerating Rapid Damage Assessment

Capstone Project: Real-time Building Damage Assessment   Clients: Steven Bibby, Senior Manager, Security and Emergency Services, BC Housing Mike Andrews, Emergency Planning Officer, North Shore Emergency Management Office Student Team: Natasha Kumar, Sittipol (Phil) Tribunyatkul, Kit Meng, Chen (Steve) Zeng Professor: Michael Winch Emergency response has to be fast without sacrificing quality. “Rapid Damage Assessment” records any damage […]

nwHacks

nwHacks

On day two of nwHacks the energy is high, even though most of the teams haven’t gotten much sleep. They are half way through a 36 hour hackathon and their ideas are starting to bring prototypes to life. Here is a small sample of the teams at nwHacks. The Veloci Penguins (pictured above) are using game dynamics […]

Michelson and Gedeon receive Leadership Award for their work on IEEE VTC

Michelson and Gedeon receive Leadership Award for their work on IEEE VTC

IEEE’s Vehicular Technology Conference brings together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology.  In 2014, Professor Michelson and Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon worked together to Co-Chair the conference held in Vancouver. The industry outreach program was especially effective and brought in over one hundred […]

Two of ECE’s outstanding scholars contribute to UBC’s Faces of Research

Two of ECE’s outstanding scholars contribute to UBC’s Faces of Research

Standing (l-r): Toni Schmader, Jeremy Seamans, Christian Schoof, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Srikantha Phani, Yvonne Lamers, Gabriela Cohen Freue, Carles Vilarino-Guell, Christina Laffin, Abel Rosado 
Seated (l-r): Jiaying Zhao, Carla Nappi, Susanne Clee, Martin Ordonez, Kiley Hamlin 
Canada Research Chairs The federal Canada Research Chair (CRC) program is specifically designed to “attract and retain some of […]

As mobile meets cloud

As mobile meets cloud

We are in the midst of the emergence of two revolutionary technologies; cloud computing and smart mobile devices.  As these two technologies co-evolve they are driving the development of a new computing paradigm. Cloud computing centres, accessible through the Internet, produce shared pools of resources (e.g., software, storage, virtual machines) that can be run with […]