Two SALA projects awarded SSHRC funds
Two SALA projects awarded SSHRC funds matthew.wattier Fri, 09/13/2024 - 14:35 SALA External This article originally appeared on UBC Research + Innovation. Strategic Priority Areas...
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The applied sciences – architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, nursing, and planning – change society's conception of what is possible as a matter of course. Applied scientists make dreams real, turn ideas into practice. We embody the interface between present and future.
The Faculty of Applied Science comprises a unique constellation of professional disciplines including; Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Nursing and Community & Regional Planning. The core purpose shared across all of our four disciplines is to discover, create and apply knowledge, provide unwavering top-tier education and champion a community of responsible professionals devoted to serving a thriving, sustainable and healthy society. Our work and the professions which our graduates represent span the entire human-centred built environment.
The disciplines within the Faculty of Applied Science are celebrated for the scope, strength and impact of their research activities. Our Faculty claims the spotlight in the global arena for our research in clean energy, communication and digital technologies, health and health technology among many others. We offer disciplinary-specific research based graduate programs as well as a range of professional graduate programs and pride ourselves on our ability to open doors of opportunity to students beyond their time within our Faculty.
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Recent Publications
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Applied Science.
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Design recipe automation for silicon photonics (EECE - MASC)
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Energy distribution of thermal electron emission (EECE - PHD)
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Towards a unified electro-optic circuits co-simulation (EECE - MASC)
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Low-cost scanning electron microscope (EECE - MASC)
Doctoral Citations
A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
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| 2010 | Dr. Sousa demonstrated solutions for artisanal and small-scale gold mines, which have helped in improving gold recovery rates, preventing and mitigating impacts associated with the use of mercury and cyanide. His research was based on a Brazilian case study and shed light on strategies for dissemination of best practices in the sector worldwide. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Mueller developed two novel techniques for improving the timing performance of synchronous circuits. He proposed a simple yet effective implementation of these methods that is applicable to the majority of integrated circuits in production today. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Khorasany studied the linear and nonlinear vibrations of spinning disks. He developed a new computational method to show the large deformations improve the stability characteristics of disks spinning at very high speeds. He also conducted an extensive amount of experiments to validate his numerical results. | Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Sengupta developed a new low power methodology that would reduce the power consumption and hence increase the battery life of future generation chips used in hand held devices such as cell phones, PDAs and laptops. His work would enhance the drive towards "green" system-on-chip design. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Nezampour analyzed and designed wireless communication systems that are robust to non-Gaussian noise and interference. The results of his research pave the way for more reliable wireless devices. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Velasquez' research reveals and quantifies mercury discharges after gold processing. The active participation of artisanal miners has led to the strengthening of their knowledge and awareness about mercury contamination. An important bonus of this research is the recommended set of policy options to mitigate environmental contamination in Southern Ecuador | Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Pourazad developed algorithms for compression of multiview video streams and conversion of standard video streams to three-dimensional format for 3DTV applications. The results of this study facilitate the introduction of 3D-broadcasting system. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Chen designed a new network protocol for the next generation wireless communication system. He also proposed scheduling algorithms and optimization methods to better support the multimedia transportation in wireless communication systems. His work improved the quality of service for mobile multimedia applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Majzoub developed novel techniques to reduce power consumption in state-of-the-art Multiprocesser-System-on-Chip. His work is part of an effort to provide portable and tablet computers a longer battery lifetime when executing advanced video, image and audio processing applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |
| 2010 | Dr. Saab's work focused on compressed sensing - a new signal acquisition technique. He proposed and mathematically analyzed algorithms for the digitization of measurements acquired by this technique and algorithms for subsequently recovering the signal. Dr. Saab showed that the proposed approaches outperform the current state of the art methods | Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) |