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BYU electrical engineers light up ballroom dance team

Professor Aaron Hawkins and a team of electrical engineering students and faculty have created fully-functioning, eye-catching light suits that flash to music.

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Announcing new tech-talk series

Announcing a new tech-talk series to discuss computer engineering topics. The discussions are open to all students (undergrad and grad) and faculty. The topics will focus on a broad range of computer-engineering topics. We want to provide a forum for students and faculty to mingle and to discuss technology, technology trends, etc. This is NOT a graduate research seminar. We want students to be able to learn and discuss technology in a broader way than they typically experience in their courses. We will meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 4 PM.

Andrea Eyring Named Honored Alumna

Andrea Eyring (MSEE 1987, BSEE 1987) was named the Honored Alumna in 2012 by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU. Andrea is the founder of Eyring Systems Incorporated, established in 1996. Eyring Systems Incorporated provides specialized system and software engineering, signal analysis, and consulting services in the areas of digital telecommunications and data communications.

BYU Spinoff is Acquired by Lockheed Martin

Procerus technologies, an Orem Utah based company which has its origins in the BYU Magicc lab was purchased on January 17, 2012 by Lockheed Martin.  In 2002-2003 Reed Christiansen,  Walter Johnson, and Josh Hintze were masters students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Brigham Young University working under the direction of ECE professor Randy Beard and ME professor Tim McLain.

ECEN students use light to beam songs across a room.

Each semester, classes resume the challenge of improving on previous efforts to transmit music across a room with light. This semester, Jana Sardoni, Matt Seamons, and other members of Jana's team built a device that can transmit any song from anyone’s iPod to a receiver and speakers up to 20 feet away. Check out their story.

Taylor Webb receives NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship

Taylor Webb, an MS degree candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship with an annual value of $60,000. His research will be advised by Prof. Karl Warnick in the area of phased array feed antennas for space remote sensing applications.

First Year Experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU

Many of the top students in the high school graduating class of 2011 will choose electrical or computer engineering as a career.  In doing so, they select a discipline that will help shape the future.  Electrical and computer engineers will design the next generation smart phones, faster and more powerful computers, smaller and more functional electronic tablets, and newer, smaller, and faster medical devices. It is an exciting field that offers both intellectual and monetary rewards.

ECEn Interactive Flashmap Makes a Splash

The BYU ECEn Department recently introduced a web tool that that allows students to view information about universities throughout the nation by going to a single source.  Students may use the new interactive map to highlight universities by specialty area, funding level, location, or several other categories. It also gives contact and geographical information on nearly 300 U.S. universities that have programs in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering.

ECEn Project Blasts into Space

Professor Mike Wirthlin and graduate students Patrick Ostler and Nathan Rollins gave "The World is Our Campus" broader meaning Monday when they projected their schoolwork into outer space on the shuttle Endeavor.

The team, led by associate BYU professor Michael Wirthlin, designed the circuit to help make NASA technology more reliable. The circuit resides inside a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA chip is programmed remotely, allowing those on the ground to operate the chip and collect data from the shuttle.

"It is a really unique opportunity for our students to design a circuit that can go up in space," Wirthlin said in a statement released by the university.