Foundations for the Future: Second Annual Biomedical Engineering Workshop
ICICS and UBC’s Biomedical Engineering Program co-hosted the second annual Biomedical Engineering Workshop on November 17, 2011, entitled “Foundations for the Future”. Researchers, health care professionals, industry personnel, and students participating in this full-day workshop explored the latest advances in biomedical engineering, under the following themes: Micro and Nano-Structures and Devices for Sensing, Energy Storage […]
ICICS Robotics Researchers Get First PR2 Robot in Canada
ICICS robotics researchers in the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CARIS) and Laboratory for Computational Intelligence (LCI) are developing systems to help elderly people and those with disabilities in their daily activities, both at home and at work. They have recently taken delivery of a PR2 mobile robot system, which will greatly accelerate […]
Rabab Ward Receives Career Achievement Award
Electrical Engineering Professor Rabab Ward was ICICS Director from 1996-2007. Rabab has received many distinguished awards over the years, and recently was honoured with the 2011 Career Achievement Award from the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC (CUFA BC). This award is given annually to a faculty member at BC’s doctoral universities (UBC, SFU, […]
ICICS/ECE/IEEE Workshop
On Friday, March 11, 2011 ICICS co-hosted a workshop featuring Wireless Networks; Multimedia; Social Networking; and Communications for Smart Grid. For workshop details, please see workshop website.