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Open Source Software Radio Development Tools
Download the software and join the OSSIE community. OSSIE is Virginia Tech's open source software defined radio (SDR) development effort. The download provides a software communications architecture for education and research. More about OSSIE
Podcasts from Distinguished Professors
Charles Bostian, Alumni Distinguished Professor: "Forty Years of Radio Research - From Glowing Bottles to Machines That Think"
Length: 26:28 (30.2 MB)
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Fred Lee, University Distinguished Professor: "Power Electronics, Energy and Environment"
Length: 27:50 (30.2 MB)
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ECE student strikes it big with iPhone app
Senior computer engineering student Paul Pilone's iHomework application for the Apple iPhone is now used by over 22,000 people worldwide. Pilone has made over $15,000. Read more in the Collegiate Times, which profiled Pilone and his work.
ECE technology to help smart grid grow smarter
An ECE team led by Arun Phadke is working with Dominion Virginia Power to push power grid monitoring from “X-ray quality to MRI-quality.” The $1.5 million project, funded by the DoE, involves synchrophasor technology first built at Virginia Tech (PDF file).
ECE alumni elected officers of Power and Energy Society
Noel N. Schulz (BSEE 1988, MSEE 1990) was elected president-elect of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, and Miroslav M. Begovic (Ph.D. EE 1989) was elected treasurer. The Virginia Tech alumni will begin their terms January 1, 2010.
National Instruments CEO delivers Bradley Lecture
National Instruments CEO and co-inventor of LabVIEW James Truchard delivered the Bradley Distinguished lecture on Nov. 6. He discussed Graphical Systems Design: Innovative Technologies for Engineers and Scientists.
7th graders visit ECE in preparation for First LEGO League
MagLev technology developed in ECE's labs attracted a team of middle school LEGO League researchers to visit Virginia Tech last week. The theme for their competition is alternative transportation.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Algorithms and Low Cost Architectures for Trace Buffer-Based Silicon Debug
2:00 PM 330 Durham
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Sandesh Prabhakar Details.
Contact: hsiao@vt.edu
Friday, December 4, 2009
Camera Pose Corrections for Robust Stereo Imagery
9:00 AM Unmanned Systems Lab (Plantation Road)
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Nathaniel Short Details.
Contact: abbott@vt.edu
Non-Negative Least Square Adjustment of C-Factors to Estimate Substation Peak Load
1:30 PM 320 Whittemore
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Hari Priya Moda Details.
Contact: dew@vt.edu
Deadbeat Current Control of a Switched Reluctance Motor
2:00 PM 460 Durham
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Benjamin Rudolph Details.
Contact: kramu@vt.edu
Power Systems Analysis in the Power-Angle Domain
3:00 PM 302 Whittemore Hall
Ph.D. Defense for Andrew J. Arana Details.
Contact: jreelope@vt.edu
Propagation of Electromechanical Disturbances across Large Interconnected Power Systems and Extraction of Associated Modal Content from Measurement Data
4:00 PM 457 Whittemore Hall
Ph.D. exam for Jason Bank (EE), 457 Whittemore at 4 pm
Contact: gradadmin@vt.edu
Monday, December 7, 2009
Coarse Classifier Implementation Using a Hybrid FPGA/DSP/GPP SDR Platform
9:00 AM 654 Whittemore
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Sujit Nair Details.
Contact: bostian@vt.edu
Frequency Monitoring Network (FNET) Algorithm Improvements and Application Development
10:00 AM 457 Whittemore Hall
Ph.D. exam for Tao Xia. 457 Whittemore at 10 am.
Contact: gradadmin@vt.edu