ECE Students & Faculty Participate in VIP Showcase

Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) are a way for students to earn academic credits for working alongside faculty on ambitious multi-semester research and community projects. The College of Innovation and Design recently sponsored an event to showcase current VIP and Maker Lab projects. Two teams including ECE students and faculty participated.

The VIP Plasma team (pictured above) is led by ECE professor Jim Browning and Chemistry professor Ken Cornell. The team's focus is on the applications of plasma as a sterilization technique. Research is aimed at developing cold atmospheric pressure plasma to kill and remove bacteria and biofilms from wounds, food, and food processing equipment.

Transdisciplinary Plasma Team at 2019 VIP Showcase
from the left - Rachael Neckels, Ken Cornell, Madison Sullivan, Brett Nelson, Adam Croteau, Amanda White

The VIP Audio Signal Processing team (Dr. Jenny Smith, Justin Stadlbauer, German Barcenas, and Evan Kurokawa) analyzed audio signals with Python toolkits. The team collected single-note audio samples from various guitars for all string/fret combinations and audio chord samples for common major, minor, and dominant 7th chords. These audio files were analyzed to generate frequency-content templates for each string/fret combination and then samples were compared to determine the most probable fretting pattern.

ECE Seminar October 7: Printed Electronics for Air Force Applications

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar hosted on Zoom. This week's seminar features Dr. Emily Heckman, a Senior Research Engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory. October 7 @ 10:30 am https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92994002201 ABSTRACT | This talk will provide an overview of the field of printed electronics and ongoing research efforts in this area at the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate. Printed electronics is a subset of additive manufacturing that uses technologies such as inkjet and aerosol jet printing and various other direct-write tools to additively print electronic devices on flexible, conformal and traditional substrate platforms. The AFRL Sensors Directorate is currently exploring this technology for application areas such as RF circuits and antennas, optoelectronic devices, sensors, and rapid prototyping. Challenges such as post-processing, repeat...

Electrical Engineering Research Team Develops New Transistor

The American Chemical Society (ACS) launched its new journal Applied Electronic Materials this year. One of Boise State’s own research teams landed a spot in the very first issue thanks to their novel work on a new type of transistor. “The new transistor opens up an exciting avenue of research,” says Dr. Kris Campbell, an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The featured work describes an optically-gated transistor developed in the Non-Volatile Memory research lab at Boise State University. Campbell’s research team includes undergraduate electrical engineering students Randall Bassine and Jeremy Astle and electrical and computer engineering doctoral student Faisal Kabir. Their unique work has led to a patent for Boise State University and has already been licensed by a company hoping to use the technology in their products. In this work, Dr. Campbell and her team demonstrate that a device comprised of alternating layers of sputtered amorphous c...

Dr. Maria Mitkova Honored by International Association for Advanced Materials

Maria Mitkova, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University recently attended the 25th assembly of the Silver Jubilee Advanced Materials Congress held in Stockholm, Sweden. Mitkova was honored at the event, receiving the International Association for Advanced Materials (IAAM) medal. Dr. Maria Mitkova (left) Receives IAAM Medal Ea ch year IAAM recognizes high-impact research and innovations which promote the advancement of materials. Recognized by the IAAM for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials, Mitkova says she is proud to have received the award. “I have great opportunities to develop my research in a college known for its innovation, inclusion, and integrity,” Mitkova says, “where I am surrounded by a wonderful team of faculty and students.” Dr. Mitkova’s current research interests are in the area of chalcogenide glasses and thin film microstructures. Learn more about ongoing work onl...

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