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ECE professor Mohamed Kamel has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.

Established in 1969, the McNaughton Gold Medal is IEEE Canada's highest honour and is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for their exemplary contributions to the engineering profession.

Raafat Mansour, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was honoured with an engineering medal for research and development by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers at its annual awards gala held November 22.

Salam Gabran, a post-doctoral fellow with the Centre for Integrated RF Engineering, has been chosen to participate in the Ontario Brain Institute's Entrepreneurs program.

"A Dynamic Markov Game for Decision Making in Self-Protecting Software" by Mahsa Emami-Taba (PhD Student), Mehdi Amoui (Postdoctoral Fellow), and Professor Ladan Tahvildari from the STAR Lab of the ECE Department was honoured with the "Technology Showcase Best Exhibit award" at CASCON 2014, the 24th International Conference hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research, IBM Canada Software Laboratory. Complicated and dynamic application-layer attacks are a major threat to software systems these days.

ECE professors Lin Tan and Wojciech Golab have had their research featured in the Waterloo Region Record's 2014 Technology Spotlight (see pages 46 and 47).

Three Electrical and Computer Engineering students have returned from France with a prize of 10,000 euros, thanks to an invention that helps vehicles communicate with each other to enhance passenger safety. Please read the full story.

ECE professor Adel Sedra was awarded the title of distinguished professor emeritus at convocation on October 25. Please see the full story.

Several ECE department members were among the recipients of this year’s Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards were announced October 24 by Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering. Please see the full story.

Electrical engineering graduate students Alireza Parsafar, Abdallah El-Falou and Chris Scott were honoured with the 2014 CAD Teledyne DALSA Componentware award at the CMC Texpo conference held in Quebec.

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ECE professor Dana Kulic was part of a team which designed 10 dresses in a new collection at the recent Paris Fashion Week.  Please read the full story.