Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Waterloo
Electrical and computer engineers shape the future through innovation. They develop and improve systems that serve everyday needs of society spanning from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy, to breakthroughs in wireless technology. Our faculty and students do everything from creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, to building real-time embedded systems to advance the design and reliability of commercial products. ECE - the future is what we do.
Research
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a dynamic and innovative hub of cutting-edge advancements in technology and engineering. Faculty members lead pioneering research in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, embedded systems, and renewable energy, addressing real-world challenges and driving technological breakthroughs.
Resources
Events
Ph.D. Seminar Notice: Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Systems
Candidate: Ruiqi Li
Title: Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Systems
Date: July 2, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: EIT 3145
Supervisor(s): Smith, Stephen L. - Simpson-Porco, John (Adjunct)
All are welcome !
News
Electrical and computer engineering PhD students, Mingcheng He and Shisheng Hu, win awards at IEEE’s ComSoc Four Minute Thesis (4MT)
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD students, Mingcheng He and Shisheng Hu. Both students, under the supervision of Professor Sherman Shen, have won prizes at the IEEE ComSoc Four Minute Thesis (4MT) competition held at the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 in Denver, Colorado in June.
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD students, Zhixuan Tang, Shisheng Hu, and postdoctoral fellow, Conghao Zhou. Together, under the supervision of Professor Sherman Shen, they have won the Best Innovative Concept Project at the IEEE Toronto Workshop “Leaders of Tomorrow” for their work “Reconfiguration-Cost-Efficient Virtual Network Embedding in Satellite Networks.”
Electrical and computer engineering professors, Bradley Hauer and Chris Wilson, awarded NSERC Quantum Alliance grant
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professors Bradley Hauer and Christopher Wilson, who have been awarded $2.7M through the NSERC Alliance – Quantum grant for their project Next-generation technology to access new regimes of quantum sensing.