CMC Microsystems profiles Sudip Shekhar
As a dedicated chip designer, Dr. Sudip Shekhar had se ttled into one of this sector’s most appealing locales. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs, Intel’s research division in Hillsboro, Oregon, among the few places in the industry where a manufacturer still conducts basic design research. He felt privileged to have the resources […]
Congratulations and BRAVO!
Missed the ceremony? You can still watch your favourite, newly minted, graduate cross the stage. All UBC graduation ceremonies are broadcast live online and archived. The live webcast will be available 15 minutes prior to the start of each ceremony. Graduation Webcast
Heat Trap: A New Way to Generate Electricity Using Nanotechnology?
If one end of a piece of metal is kept over fire, you probably don’t want to hold the other end in your hand. This is because conductors of electricity also conduct heat. Yet, here, Dr. Alireza Nojeh reports on an unusual and counter-intuitive phenomenon called Heat Trap, whereby heat stays confined to a region […]
Robotic Helicopters from the Electrical Engineering Design Studio
Each response to this design challenge is unique. Students in the Electrical Design Studio are designing, fabricating and testing a drone prototype that can lift, rotate 180°and land. In their third year, ECE students work on an engineering design that integrates all of the engineering skills they have learned to that point in their degree. […]
ECE Professor Recognized for Conference Leadership
Professor David Michelson recently received a conference leadership award from Tourism Vancouver in recognition of the great success of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & URSI North American Radio Science Meeting that was held in in Vancouver last summer. Prof. Michelson served as both a General Co-Chair and the Finance Chair of the event. After […]
Wireless and hands-free controls for medical imaging software
Capstone team designs gestural interface for surgeons Client: St. Paul’s Hospital, Department of Radiology, Darra Murphy, Radiologist Faculty Supervisor: Philippe Kruchten Capstone Team: Kang Shiang Yap(Ryan), Kevin Xu Erqing (Kevin), Tiangang Yang (Luke) and Young Jin Lee (Jin) Video Demostration Once a physician starts a surgical procedure they can’t touch any piece of equipment that isn’t […]
Power Line Communications is in its second edition
Did you know ECE’s own Lutz Lampe co-edited the first book to cover the core principles and the state-of-the-art in power line communications? The first edition, published in 2010, became the main point of reference for researchers and people working in the field. This field is rapidly evolving. The second edition of Power Line Communications […]
The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores
Recent paper generates lively discussions on reddit and Hacker News Back in 2000 processor scheduling was thought to be a solved problem in operating systems. The multicore era demanded new optimizations, which eventually made schedulers complex and prone to bugs. In a paper prepared for EuroSys16, Prof. Sasha Fedorova, and her colleagues investigate bugs in […]
Smart and Secure Buildings
Internet of Things Anomaly Detection for Software Defined Networks Client: Optigo Networks Inc., Dan Ronald, VP Product Management Faculty Supervisor: Paul Lusina Capstone Team: Andrew Archer, Xu Chen, Al-Shahna Jamal, Anthony Kao, Ezra Savard Carefully controlling when, and how much energy buildings use can save huge amounts of money. In the US, businesses spend about $100 billion […]
Talking to the Nest
Capstone team creates interface to help the Nest become one of the most sustainable buildings in North America Client: Campus + Community Planning, AMS Sustainability, Akshiv Bansal, Sustainability Projects Coordinator Faculty Supervisor: Paul Lusina Capstone Team: Micheal Griffin, Euan Chow, Anna Gudimova, Yuxin Xu (Eugene) and Meng-Yeng Lee (Dan) UBC’s Alma Mater Society is excited […]