Dr. Ordonez's research program employs high performance power conversion systems to test and validate new technology. The Alpha Power Laboratory is continuously developing and evolving these high...
Ramon Duarte de Melo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Henrique de Souza Magnago, Federal University of Santa Maria
Science without Borders has brought two Brazilian students to ECE to...
Four students from the Indian Institute of Technology – Jodhpur recently visited ECE to work on UBC’s smart grid. Over the course of their ten-week stay they advanced UBC’s research...
Thunderbird 2013, the boat created by UBC's Sailbot team, won the recent regatta hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, held at the California Maritime Academy. This is the...
Designing and fabricating computer chips takes a lot of time and money. Chip designers alleviate as much of this expense as they can by using modeling tools to ensure the chips that reach the...
One aspect of being a teaching assistant that Parisa Behnamfar really enjoys is the active teaching and learning that happens during lab supervision hours. “Experimental setups usually bring up...
For their outstanding video, the first place prize of one thousand dollars went to:
Isolated Fence Sections and Impact of GPR Mitigation
Group 4: Ivan Gumulia, Keshav Khanna, Daniel Tiang, Sarah...
Philippe Kruchten tests one of the many prototypes on display at the Capstone Celebration
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department reached out to over 40 organizations and industry partners...
As an intern at Qualcomm, Bader Alahmad worked on Indoor Map Technology and Indoor Localization. During his internship, he developed an indoor map solution that can pinpoint the location of assets...
Ainara Garde has recently received a Mitacs Elevate Fellowship supporting her work with Guy Dumont at LionsGate Technologies.
She is specialized in advanced biomedical signal processing, focused on...
Angelica Ruszkowski, a MASc student working with Dr. Tim Salcudean, recieved the Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarship to support her research in ECE’s Robotics and Control lab.
The...
The Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicince research group won awards for two of their projects at this year's Annual Meeting of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA...
ECE’s Sarah Walinga was awarded $2000 from IEEE Power and Energy Society for her achievements in the power engineering field. She was presented the award by department head Dr. Andre Ivanov,...
The Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology in Kyoto, Japan went to ECE's Eddie Hung, Al-Shahna Jamal and Prof. Wilton for their paper titled, "...
Neurio is a sensor made by Energy Aware that tracks the use of power by appliances in the home. The company raised nearly $267,373 through Kickstarter to help bring the sensor to market. This...
Babak Assadsangabi, Xing Chen, Dan Brox and Prof. Kenichi Takahata received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SENSORS Conference for their submission titled, Microfabrication of Capacitive...
Today it takes an average of $5 billion and 10-15 years to develop a drug. One of the primary reasons for the high cost and time spent is the poor predictive accuracy of the front end drug discovery...
Watch the performances from this year's Music Night.
It has been a tradition at ECE to have a music night each year so that students and faculty members can get some time off from research and...
New research finds a way to opportunistically use television and radio channels to transmit cellular signals when systems are pushed beyond capacity.
When a natural disaster strikes and too many...
Welcome from the Department Head
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2013/14 academic year in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department within the Faculty of Applied Science at the...
Yazan Boshmaf and his LERSSE research colleagues received a Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their ...
Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE) led by Prof. Konstantin Beznosov.
Engineers in LERSSE do empirical research to improve the ability and the security of...
As newly elected chair of the HQP Advisory Committee (HQPAC), Nima Taherinejad hopes to increase student engagement in AUTO21 Network activities.
Nima works with the Power Line Communication for...
This summer, five students from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-J) will be joining ECE to collaborate on projects from the Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) initiative.
The five visiting...
Congratulations to the Class of 2013
Cathleen Holtvogt, Undergraduate Student Services, and Shayan Farahbakhsh, newly minted ECE graduate, enjoyed a wet but warm graduation reception today.
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Harshanvit Chhatwal and Trevor Condon, two ECE graduates from the class of 2013, were asked to share some of their insights and experiences as recent graduates.
You can read the stories of...
Congratulations to the winners of the UBC 2013 Student Project Fair! On April 4, 2013, the UBC IEEE held a project fair for students in the ECE. Each year, this event provides a forum for students to...
Little Bo Peep has taken up engineering. Tired of suffering through a search in the wilderness for her sheep, Bo Beep has designed a robot that will home in on her lost livestock. The robot...
During the Three Minute Thesis Competition graduate students explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. Mai Hassan and Parmida Beigi were successful...