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  • Capstone Design Team Showcase: Tire Pressure Monitoring and Computer-Assisted Surgery Projects

    Capstone Design Team Showcase: Tire Pressure Monitoring and Computer-Assisted Surgery Projects

    September 13, 2024 Capstone design projects are a major component of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum. Students design a product or service of significance and solve an open-ended problem in their field of study. ECE hosted a project showcase for the summer term on August 8th, 2024. Wirelessly-Powered Tire Pressure Monitoring System…

  • ECE Professor Prashant Nair Recipient of TCCA Award

    ECE Professor Prashant Nair Recipient of TCCA Award

    July 30, 2024 Assistant Professor Prashant Nair, from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award. Professor Nair received this award “In recognition of outstanding contributions to mitigate scaling-related DRAM faults and security vulnerabilities.”…

  • ECE/SCARP Students Create Sustainable-transport Startup Project

    ECE/SCARP Students Create Sustainable-transport Startup Project

    Originally published by the School of Community and Regional Planning July 16, 2024 Many city infrastructures worldwide were long ago transformed to require single-occupancy vehicles if people wanted to get around. People made due and it became a way of life, though this wasn’t accessible for some. For years, planners have theorised that a new…

  • ECE PhD Candidate Pritam Dash Named 2024 CPS Rising Star

    ECE PhD Candidate Pritam Dash Named 2024 CPS Rising Star

    Pritam Dash, 4th year PhD Candidate in UBC’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, supervised by Professor Karthik Pattabiraman, was named a 2024 Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research. On May 29th, 2024, Pritam was invited to participate in the CPS Rising Stars workshop at the University of Virginia (UVA), funded by the National…

  • Undergraduate and Graduate TA Applications

    Undergraduate and Graduate TA Applications

    The deadline for TA applications has been extended and will remain open for Winter 2024/25. Please review undergraduate student requirements and further information and graduate student requirements and further information before applying.

  • Alumni Perspective Story- From Electrical Engineering to the Federal Government of Canada

    Alumni Perspective Story- From Electrical Engineering to the Federal Government of Canada

    Yasaman Best graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC with a biomedical specialization in 2011 and continued her studies to pursue a Master’s in Software Systems. Yasaman currently works as an IT Team Lead for the Federal Government of Canada (Department of National Defence).  Learn more about Yasaman’s experience at ECE, her…