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EECS Senior Design Teams Highlighted by the Industry Advisory Board

The following projects were recognized as the top 3 out of 74 EECS senior design projects presented at the Annual Design Review 2026. *** 3D Mapping and Modeling Drone System Students: Haoling Wang, Ryan Zhang, Shang-pin Chen, Xin Gao Advisor:

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Several wins the Senior Project Awards!

Congratulations to the following senior design teams who won awards at this year’s Winter Design Review. Peter Burke advised 4 of the top 6 teams! Dean’s Choice Awards – PhotonFlight: Fiber Optic Drone Students: Nate Johnson, Nick Brega, Mervin Nguyen,

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Sniffing out danger

UC Irvine’s electronic nose may transform fields like public safety and environmental protection In the heart of UC Irvine’s engineering complex, scientists are working on a device that appeals to the senses: an electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics,

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EuRAD2024 Keynote speech by Peter Burke, UC Irvine “Applications of Microwaves from Nano to Macro: Nano-radar to Drone Long Range”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDYMK5JOoqc

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Students Build and Fly Guinness-Record Drone

https://engineering.uci.edu/news/2024/11/students-build-and-fly-guinness-record-drone Nov. 21, 2024 – UCI Professor Peter Burke set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance to control a drone. Now, the electrical engineering professor is teaching a class where students get to build and fly that exact drone model. His record-breaking drone was

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Sangjun Noh Awarded as the 2nd Place of the Hardware and Systems track at the 2024 GEECS Annual Technology Showcase

Sangjun Noh, PhD student of Burkelab, awarded as the 2nd place of the Hardware and System track at the 2024 GEECS Annual Technology Showcase

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Professor Burke to offer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles hands on course in Fall 2024: “Drones”

EECS Special Topics Course Fall 2024 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Drones Professor & Class Schedule Peter Burke e-mail: pburke@uci.edu Lecture M/W 1-2:30 or equivalent Lab: business hours TA: TBD Textbook: Professor will provide online learning materials Enrollment/prerequisites: Enrollment is open

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IEEE Fellow Prof. Peter Burke to Deliver Keynote at EuRAD2024

 https://twitter.com/eumweek/status/1777939574758531436?t=166cyy9jVt6A-KBRqnlgbg&s=19  European Microwave Week (EuMW)  @eumweek Prof. Peter Burke, IEEE Fellow from UC, is our 1st Plenary Keynote speaker at #EuRAD2024!  He’ll unveil groundbreaking microwave & radar advancements, from nano-innovations in cell studies to macro applications like enhancing drone communications.

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UC Irvine-led team of researchers uncovers battery-like functions of mitochondria

https://news.uci.edu/2023/11/27/uc-irvine-led-team-of-researchers-uncovers-battery-like-functions-of-mitochondria/   First-of-their-kind findings made possible by new generation of powerful microscopes “When we first started studying isolated mitochondria, we knew they behaved like a battery based on some work from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology and UCLA, but

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UAVS@UCI flights operational again

After a long hiatus, UAVS@UCI is active again on Saturday afternoons at the ARC, with full university and FAA approval. Contact Professor Burke via email for details if you want to join us on Saturdays! Club website: https://campusgroups.uci.edu/uavs/home/  

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