Student Ingenuity Abuzz on Design and Innovation Day 2024
Originally published in UBC Engineering News From addressing environmental challenges to enhancing human well-being, the 240 capstone projects on display at the 2024 Design and Innovation Day showcase were a testament to the ingenuity and commitment of UBC’s aspiring engineers. The diverse array of projects represented the culmination of months of dedicated effort and creative […]
Victor Sira Wins 2024 ECE/UBC Three Minute Thesis People’s Choice Award
Congratulations to Victor Sira, MASc student in Electrical Engineering and supervised by Dr. Sudip Shekhar, who received the ECE and UBC 3MT’s People’s Choice Award for the best presentation on “Robust Clock Generation for Microchips”. Learn more about Victor’s research, participation in 3MT, and advice for future contenders! Can you explain your research topic/thesis? My […]
ECE/ECEGSA Research Day
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ECEGSA (ECE Graduate Student Association) hosted a Research Day on January 24th, 2024! The event was a graduate student-led effort organized by ECEGSA to showcase the research of ECE graduate students through poster sessions and lightning talks. The Research Day created an opportunity for students to show […]
Two UBC Engineering students awarded 2024 Cansbridge Fellowship
Originally published in UBC Engineering News University of British Columbia engineering students Lily Watt and Matthew Chow are among this year’s recipients of the Cansbridge Fellowship. They are two of 15 fellows who will be joining a week-long conference in New York, a summer internship in Asia enabled by a $10,000 scholarship, and a lifelong professional network. Watt, a third-year engineering […]
ECE Student Perspective Story – From Computer Architecture to Future Industry Plans!
Lufei Liu is a 4th year PhD student in computer architecture, advised by Professor Tor Aamodt. Lufei completed her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at UBC in 2020, where she then directly started her PhD program. Lufei’s research primarily focuses on GPU (graphics processing unit) hardware architecture, specifically with computer graphics and hardware acceleration of […]
2023 Three Minute Thesis ECE Participants
Get ready for ECE’s Three Minute Competition Heat, happening Wednesday, March 8 at 12pm in room MCLD 3038! RSVP your spot as an audience member here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PZqyeHX3PFl7T0 To get an idea of the presentations, take a look at some of the topics for this year’s heat!
ECE Alumni Perspective- From Electrical, to Software, to Microsoft!
Yasaman Gharib graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC in November 2012, with a Bachelors Degree in the Electrical area. After working in her field for a year, she decided to switch to become a software developer. Currently she works as a software engineer at Microsoft and is working on a […]
Rui Xi – Alumni Perspectives
Rui Xi is a current PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC. He has previously earned a B.Eng in Software Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University, as well as an MASc in ECE at UBC. Much of his Master’s research focused on the security of blockchain applications and finding ways apps […]
ECE Research Team Receives Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME 2022!
We are excited to announce that Prof. Julia Rubin and ECE undergraduate students Evelien Boerstra and John Ahn have received a Distinguished Paper Award for their paper titled “Stronger Together: On Combining Relationships in Architectural Recovery Approaches” at this year’s prestigious ICSME Conference (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution). The paper focuses on the […]
Student Perspectives – Zitao Chen, Public Scholars Initiative
“Being a public scholar means the opportunity to broaden my PhD experience and to engage in research that would contribute to the public good. This includes building closer connections with the community such as sharing my research with the general audience, bridging the divide between academia and industry, and seeking avenues to transfer academic progress […]