Have you ever stood in a checkout line at a store with 10 other people, waiting for one cashier to serve you? Now imagine how much faster it would be if there were 10 cashiers available. Similarly,...
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Article by Lou Corpuz-Bosshart, UBC Media Relations
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could...
ECE PhD student, Guanpeng Li, and his advisor, Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman, received the Best Paper Award Runner Up at the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN...
Congratulations to Dr. Julia Rubin and ECE grad students, Lina Qiu and Yingying Wang, for receiving the Distinguish Paper Award at the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing an...
When Amir Abdi speaks about teaching and being an instructor, one thing is clear: he loves it. Amir’s passion and dedication to teaching has not gone unrecognized. He was the recipient of...
Francisco “Pancho” Paz, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, recently received a Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recognizing his...
Shekoofeh Azizi, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, postdoctoral fellow, Sharareh Bayat, along with Ajay Rajaram were recipients of the runner up prize for the...
Developing 5G caching for the Canadian landscape
In the near future, we will need more bandwidth, more cell towers, and more base-stations to support the huge increase in the demand for...
Every year in May, the IEEE Student Branch - UBC Chapter organizes a field trip overseas to visit exciting engineering schools, research institutions and companies. Over the years the club has taken...
Nithya Narayanamurthy received an award for her paper describing a unique way of reducing computing errors at the European Dependable Computing Conference this week. Narayanamurthy developed her...
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...
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...
Capstone team designs gestural interface for surgeons
Client: St. Paul’s Hospital, Department of Radiology, Darra Murphy, Radiologist
Faculty Supervisor: Philippe Kruchten
Capstone Team...
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...
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...
Capstone team works with the Disabled Sailing Association to control the Martin 16 with bio-signals for a hands-free sail
“Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal...
Capstone students work with Wearable Therapeutics Inc. to incorporate wireless controls in the Snug Vest
We all know from experience how important a hug can be. There is mounting evidence from...
UBC students take on challenges from Vancouver companies
On April 7th, please join electrical and computer engineering students in celebrating the culmination of a year of hard work and creativity....
Brian Mukeswe, a 3rd-year electrical engineering student at the University of British Columbia, is one of 10 finalists in the Sunnybrook Research Prize Competition. Brian will present his...
Keheliya Gallaba, a graduate student working in ECE’s Software Analysis and Testing (SALT) Lab, has just brought home a Best Paper Award from the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical...
Soheil Hor and Prof. Mehdi Moradi, recently proposed a fundamentally new paradigm for handling the missing data problem in machine learning based on the concept of random forest classifiers. Their...
Medical care for children with chronic conditions, particularly for those with neurodevelopmental conditions, can be very complex. There are significant advantages to incorporating digital tools into...
What courses would you have taken if you were registering 100 years ago?
In 1915, UBC's Applied Science course schedules were quite a bit different than they are today. For a quick break from...
Wireless communication technologies are changing rapidly. As the potential for wireless applications expands to smart buildings, video streaming and everything in between, there...
Holus 3D Holographic display over 400% funded in first few days of campaign
H+Technology is the brainchild of three UBC Alumni, Dhruv Adhia, Vincent Yang and Yamin Lin, who met while completing...
Over the last two years, Christoph Sielmann has been one of the Teaching Assistants supporting ECE's capstones, a set of courses for 4th year undergraduates to work on projects proposed...
AT the heart of the ECE capstones are real, open-ended, engineering problems brought to us by clients. The best way to get a sense of the scope and diversity of the projects our students...
Capstone Project: 3D Surgical Markings Using Intraoperative Navigation
Client: Dr. Rob Stead, Research Physicist, Novadaq Technologies Inc.
Student team: Prab Grewal, Sarah...
Capstone Project: Smartphone-Based Electromyography System for Screening Restless Leg Syndrome in Children
Clients: Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu, Pediatrician and Clinical Associate...
