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Educators Learn about Best Practices for Teaching Cybersecurity Content
With a goal of improving teaching methods for K-12 educators to deliver cybersecurity content, K – 12 educators from Kansas and around the country gathered at Eaton Hall in July for the 3rd annual GenCyber summer camp. ...
EECS Selected for NSA “Lablet” to Improve Security for Internet of Things with ‘Big-Thinking’ Research
EECS is leading a multidisciplinary effort at KU that will tackle the fundamental science underpinning the security of the Internet of Things (IoT), through a prestigious designation from the National Security Agency. ...
Jayhackers Compete in Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition
The EECS Information Security Club cyber defense team competed in the Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition in April 2018. The team was comprised of three club members in computer science from the Lawrence campus and three members from information technology from the Edwards campus. The team had six weeks...
University Daily Kansan Highlights EECS Alum, Google Software Engineer Evan Nichols
Evan Nichols graduated with a computer science degree in 2017. While at KU, he was an undergraduate Self Fellow and participated in the KU Energy Club. He is now a software engineer for Google in New York City. Evan’s experience in EECS and his work at Google were recently highlighted...
Professor Shannon Blunt appointed to IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society Board of Governors
Professor Shannon Blunt was recently appointed to the Broad of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society (AESS). AESS is a professional society dealing with total integrated electronic systems and the enabling technologies that contributes to large-scale system design, including radar systems. Professor Blunt has made major contributions to...
EECS Students Use Analog Discovery 2 to Explore Circuit Concepts
In fall 2017, the EECS department purchased 40 Digilent Analog Discovery 2 units. EECS students have used these devices to explore circuit concepts. These units interface to a computer via USB and operate at 100 MSPS, providing a two-channel USB digital oscilloscope; two-channel arbitrary function generator; 16-channel digital logic analyzer;...
EECS Student Wins Best Teamwork at Princeton Hackathon
EECS senior Shaina Krumme and her team of Tina Haibodi (Queen’s University), Chris Maltais (Queen’s University), and Sai S (University of Waterloo), successfully participated in Princeton University’s biannual hackathon, HackPrinceton, in spring 2018. ...
EECS Senior Helps Lead Conference to Encourage Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
Computer Science senior Ashley Hutton helped organize a one-day conference designed to encourage middle school girls to attend college eager to major in science, technology, engineering and math. More than 70 mother-daughter duos attended the ‘Make it Happen’ conference in February 2018. The conference was the brainchild of Hutton and...
KU EECS Student Participates in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Pathways Program
EECS student Luke Dercher worked last year on embedded development for scientific satellite missions in the Pathways program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dercher is a computer science major and a non-traditional student. He is 31 years old and a five-year veteran of the US Navy. Getting to work...
JayHackers Place 3rd in Regional Cyber Defense Competition
KU’s Information Security Club, the JayHackers, participated virtually in the At-Large Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (ALCCDC). Two KU EECS teams, one from the Lawrence (CS) Campus and one Edwards (BSIT) Campus, spent a weekend in late March protecting a virtual environment from professional hackers, known as the red team. During...
Underclassman Achievement Awards Presented by the KU Gamma Iota Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu
For the sixth year, Eta Kappa Nu presented the Underclassman Achievement Awards as a way of honoring the achievements of the department’s most promising sophomore level students. In EECS, the 200 level courses are considered ‘make or break courses.’ They are arguably the hardest undergraduate courses EECS offers, and understanding...
Computing the possibilities
LAWRENCE — Sandy Rech was recently participating in a biology lab when it became clear she had a big advantage over her fellow students: She knew how to use the computer software that tracked the results of class experiments — and her classmates did not. ...
KU EECS to offer RF Systems Engineering Certificate
LAWRENCE — The Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department at the University of Kansas has received approval to offer a certificate in RF Systems Engineering — a move that will strengthen the university’s ongoing partnership with Garmin International’s American headquarters in Olathe. ...
Students from Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Attend EECS Information Technology Workshop at the KU Edwards Campus
About 80 students from the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools attended the Information Technology Workshop at the KU Edwards Campus on Oct. 24. BSIT faculty ran the event that covered web-design, cyber security and system-administration, along with college and career planning sessions geared toward the IT industry. Hossein Saiedian, director...
New EECS Research Effort Will Advance Long-Range Test-Flight Communications Using Narrower Bandwidth
In 2015, the National Spectrum Consortium auctioned off portions of the electromagnetic spectrum once used by government agencies to mobile-phone companies. As a result, entities like the Department of Defense and Test Resource Management Center have searched out new technologies to transmit the vast data streams involved in testing airborne...
EECS Researchers Address Problems in Computer-Simulation Technology
The computer simulations used to design, optimize, test or control a vast range of objects and products in our daily lives are underpinned by finite element methods. Finite element simulations use a mesh of geometric shapes — triangles, tetrahedra, quadrilaterals or hexahedra, for instance. These shapes can be combined to...
Jayhackers take 2nd and 3rd at CANSec Conference Cyber Defense Competition
A group of six students from the BSIT program and 12 students from the CS program traveled in late October to the University of Missouri Science and Technology (S&T) in Rolla, Missouri in to participate in a Cyber Defense Competition. Ten teams from KU, Kansas State University, University of Memphis,...
Workshop to address how to combat misinformation, fake news
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas professors will present an all-day event next week that will examine the consequences of misinformation in democratic societies and how to detect, address and combat the creation and dissemination of fake news. ...
EECS Student Shaina Krumme Won Runner-Up Prize at the Annual MIT Hackathon for Best Use of Firebase
The team of Shaina Krumme (University of Kansas), Nihar Mauskar (UCSD), and Ajay Ramesh (Berkeley) successfully participated in the 2017 HackMIT, the annual MIT hackathon. Their project -SeQR Scanner and Generator- won runner-up for the prize sponsored by Google (Best Use of Firebase). Only approximately 9% of all participants won...
EECS students continue to receive Garmin Excellence Scholarships
In 2014 Dr. Min Kao, of Garmin International, Inc., made a $1 million gift through the Kao Family Foundation to support programs and scholarships at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. Half of the gift was used to create the Min H. Kao Engineering Design Studios, and the other...
EECS Faculty to study Kansans' inequality of broadband access and cybersecurity issues
The dimensions of broadband access reflect similar patterns of social inequality, and those who often rely on public libraries for internet access are often at risk of cybersecurity concerns and have less privacy, making them vulnerable to online scams and identity theft, for example. ...
EECS Ph.D. Student Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2017 International Telemetering Conference
A paper written by EECS Ph.D. student Sumant Pathak received the “Best Graduate Student Paper” award at the 2017 International Telemetering Conference (ITC), which was held in October in Las Vegas. In order to be considered for a student award at ITC, a paper must be authored solely by students,...
Smithhisler Selected for 2017 School of Engineering Staff Award
Leslee Smithhisler, undergraduate assistant in the EECS administrative office, was selected for the School of Engineering Staff Award by engineering dean Michael Branicky and associate deans for her significant contributions to EECS undergraduate programs. Smithhisler joined the EECS department in 2015. She was recognized for being student-centric and friendly, for...
Two EECS Students Win Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates Award
Computer science major Rebekah Manweiler and computer engineering major Erick Oduniyi received a year-long Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates award through Computing Research Association. Their project is titled "Modeling Language Learning Using Child Directed Speech." This award helps promote undergraduate women and minority students in computer science by offering...
EECS Hosts Second Annual GenCyber Summer Camp
Thirty K-12 educators from around the country participated in the second annual GenCyber summer camp, held July 31 to August 4 at Eaton Hall. The goal of the camp, which is funded through a grant from the National Security Agency, is to teach the fundamental concepts and key aspects of...
EECS Establishes Power Systems Laboratory
The EECS department’s growing capability in renewable energies and smart grid is significantly boosted by acquiring a smart grid emulator test bench system from Lucas-Nülle, complete with solar and wind generation emulation capabilities. The shift from fossil fuel power generation to renewable energy continues to gain momentum. Today, technology has...
Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Student Paper Receives First Place at 2017 IEEE Radar Conference
EECS Ph.D. student Patrick McCormick received 1st place in the student paper contest at the 2017 IEEE Radar Conference in Seattle. This is the premier conference devoted to advancing radar technology. His paper was selected from 124 student papers submitted from around the world. Five submissions were selected as finalists...
KU’s Hosts Inaugural Hackathon
KU’s inaugural hackathon, took place February 17-19, 2017 at the engineering complex. A hackathon can be thought of as an invention marathon, where students “hack” together an idea from inception to reality. The event allowed the EECS community to come together for a weekend and do what engineers love to...
EECS Students win Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Competition Awards
Andres S. Hernandez received an all campus Undergraduate Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Honor Society) Research Award for Best Oral Presentation for his honors undergraduate research project "Position Determination Using Ultrasonic Signals." Andres’ project mentor is Professor Chris Allen. His project used ultrasonic signals for the detection and position determination of...
EECS Cyber Security Activities Highlighted in Kansas Alumni Magazine
EECS faculty and students are involved in a variety of cyber security activities. The March 2017 Kansas Alumni Magazine contains a cover story titled “Domain Defenders: Students look beyond the classroom to study the art of cyber war.” This lengthy piece discusses KU EECS participation in cyber defense competitions,...