This five-year project aims to develop performance-guaranteed learning and control for real-world energy systems, with applications to power grid voltage control and building HVAC control. Full Story
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Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story
Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are both highly sensitive and durable. This work could lead to a new generation of photonic devices that are not only precise and powerful but also much easier and cheaper to produce at scale. Full Story
The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at its annual Ring Ceremony on Friday, June 13. Six students were selected from the nearly 1,500 students receiving bachelor’s degrees from the Jacobs School of Engineering to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department. Full Story
Graduate student Heng Qiao received the Best Student Paper Award (first place) at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2017. The paper is titled:
Heng Qiao, Piya Pal, "Unified Analysis of Co-Array Interpolation for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation", Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017.
Passive electromagnetic devices such as transmission lines, filters and antennas are essential parts of a wireless system. They often dominate the system’s efficiency, bandwidth and noise performance. Traditional passives often operate in a time-invariant manner as they are built with materials and structures that have time independent properties. They are subject to many well-known fundamental limits such as the reciprocity of transmission line, limit of quality factors of passive filters and limit of efficiency bandwidth product in electrically small antennas.
Monash Vision Group is developing a vision prosthesis based on implanting stimulating tiles into the visual cortex, area V1. Each tile has 43 stimulating electrodes that are designed to stimulate Layer 4 of V1 using bi-phasic current pulses. The tiles wirelessly receive coded messages from an external transmitter, which itself receives data from a vision processor. The vision processor extracts important scenic features from a small camera mounted in the headgear, using several algorithms designed for common everyday tasks, such as navigation and social/business interactions.
Ivana Mikic is a manager of imaging software development at BIOVIA, a brand of Dassault Systemes. She is also a co-founder of Image Informatics, a San Diego-based company whose software was recently acquired by BIOVIA. Ivana's primary expertise is in computer vision and she has been
working for the last fifteen years on solving computer vision problems in life sciences and medicine. Ivana got her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and her MS in Biomedical Engineering from Ohio State University.
This talk provides a discussion of one of the central design challenges associated with next-generation “5G”
wireless systems - that of effectively converging 3GPP-based mobile networks with the global Internet.
Although the trend towards “flat” IP-based architectures for cellular networks is well under way with LTE,
significant architectural evolution will be needed to achieve the goal of supporting the needs of mobile
devices and applications as “first-class” services on the Internet. Several emerging mobility service scenarios
Come show support and have fun with the students of ECE115 in an open house where they show off the culminations of their hard work for the entire quarter: a fleet of personalized, interactive pinball machines. All pinball machines will be available for play throughout the event, and light refreshments will be available. At least 10 systems will be available to play.
Course Abstract: This design-focused course pairs students into groups of two, and teaches them how to prototype a mechatronic solution as quickly as possible. Students gain hands-on skills and experience with design, fabrication, integration, and characterization of practical electronic and mechanical hardware systems. Students learn to materialize their ideas in the shortest possible time and make design decisions that will result in a cost-effective, robust, and well-designed mechatronic system.
Instructor: Prof. Michael Yip (ECE), yip@ucsd.edu TAs: Dmitrii Votintcev (ECE), Brian Wilcox (ECE)
It’s happening on Wednesday, April 12th. ECE Day is an opportunity to celebrate, create, network, eat, and learn.
Don’t worry about missing out since there will be different activities happening throughout the day that have been worked around the ECE classes.
During the day, you can network with alumni, create your own musical keyboard, witness fun hands-on ECE project demos, explore the new ECE classes and depths, eat free food from food trucks, and connect with other fellow students!
To participate in one of our Musical Keyboard Workshops, please RSVP below.
Please RSVP for the Evening Portion of ECE Day, where you can network exclusively with ECE Alumni and listen to the Keynote Speaker:https://goo.gl/forms/
ECE DAY Agenda:
Alumni Panel
Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Qualcomm Room, EBU 1
Description: Come talk to UCSD ECE Alumni and listen to their experiences after graduation.
Startup vs. Corporation Panel
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Qualcomm Room, EBU 1
Description: Curious to the pros and cons of working in a start-up or corporation? Come hear the perspectives of engineers who have chosen these paths.
ECE Depth Posters Showcase
Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of Jacob Building
Description: Unsure of which depth to choose? We will have informational posters as well as a representative for each depth to help you better understand and decide which you want to pursue.
Hands-On Project Showcase
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 PM
Location: Lobby of Jacob Building
Description: Curious about which hands-on classes you should take? Come and listen to the students' experiences in ECE 5 (Making, Breaking & Hacking Stuff); ECE 16 (Rapid Hardware & Software Design for Interfacing with the World); ECE 115 (Rapid Prototyping); ECE 180/188 (The Art of Product Engineering); ECE 196 (Engineering Hands- On Group Project-in-a-Box).
Keynote
Time: 5:30 to 8 PM
Location: ATK
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect our physical world with billions of sensors and actuators, transforming the way we live and work, as well as creating enormous business markets. Security and privacy are seen as the most critical challenges to IoT growth in the future.
WiFi is ubiquitous nowadays and is playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. Traditionally, WiFi networks are mainly used for data communication. In recent years, WiFi signals have been exploited for many exciting new applications including wireless health, elderly/patient monitoring, indoor navigation, gesture recognition, etc. One key component for the success of these applications is accurate tracking of movements.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department traces its roots back to the establishment of the Applied Electrophysics department in 1965, under its founding chair Henry Booker. Through a succession of department realignments emerged today’s ECE in 1987, when the then-combined Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department was split into two departments. Since then, ECE has earned a world-class reputation for producing top-notch engineers for industry and academia.
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