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Electrical & Computer Engineering News - April 2019

A student in a white polo shirt flies a tethered drone outside Old Main at Engineering Design Day

$36,250 in Prizes Awarded at UA’s Engineering Design Day 2019

Top team helps lost hikers find their way home with cellphone app and solar-powered beacons.
Prabhat Baniya and Kathleen Melde

Pushing the Envelope of Chip-to-Chip Communication

ECE professor and grad student get tiny chips to do big jobs using reconfigurable antennas.
Doug Hockstad, Jennifer Barton and Dr. Robert C. Robbins

I-Squared Awards Ceremony Honors Campus Inventors

Engineers recognized by Tech Launch Arizona for creating devices to make the world a better place.
Five students standing by a 3D printer

Students Demonstrate Firefighting, Grasshopper-Catching and Bruise-Measuring Tech at Design Day

On April 29, 616 senior engineering students will display projects they’ve developed over the course of a year. There are inventions to fight fires, reduce cyclist fatalities and combat child abuse, as well as more than 100 other projects to make...
Three smiling people in Disney uniforms in front of the Toy Story Mania! attraction.

Electrical Engineer Makes Disney Magic

Engineering undergrad builds communication and teamwork skills in the Disney College Program.
team of students

Engineering a Device to Fight Child Abuse

All-woman team of senior engineering students creates bruise age measurement device for use in child abuse and domestic violence cases.