Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is Waterloo’s largest academic department, with over 2,500 students, 86 full-time faculty members, and more than 50 supportive staff. In addition to offering undergraduate and graduate programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering, ECE provides academic expertise and support to Waterloo’s multidisciplinary mechatronics, nanotechnology, and software engineering programs.
Our research activities cover a wide range of fields, from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy to breakthroughs in wireless technology that will enhance communications across our global society. Our faculty members and students are creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, and building real-time embedded systems that will advance the design and reliability of consumer and industrial products.
News
- May 29, 2017ECE MASc student Ryan Kinnear among first place team winners of the Waterloo Datathon
ECE MASc student, Ryan Kinnear, supervised by Professor Ravi Mazumdar, is among the first place team winners of the Waterloo Datathon held on May 13th.
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- May 18, 2017Professor Alfred Yu awarded $493K from Canadian Institutes of Health Research
ECE's Professor Alfred Yu has been awarded $493K from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for his Project Grant entitled "VAST-MAP: Vascular Stiffness Mapping for Aging Analysis Using High Frame Rate Ultrasound."
CIHR's Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. The program is highly competitive with a success rate of only 16 percent.
Congratulations Alfred!
- May 3, 2017Professor Claudio Canizares receives 2017 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award
Professor Claudio Canizares is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award “for fostering partnerships between industry and power engineering education and for developing innovative online power engineering programs”.
Events
- June 26, 2017Seminar - Dr. Daniel Larraz
Speaker
Dr. Daniel Larraz, University of Iowa
Topic
Compositional Program Analysis Using Max-SMT
- June 28, 2017Official Announcement of the Ciena IRC-NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Network Information Theory of Optical Channels
Ciena and NSERC have established an Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. This research relationship has been key in supporting Ciena’s advancement in increasing the speed in transatlantic internet connections. Professor Amir Khandani's graduate students have been key hires for Ciena over many years.
- June 29, 2017Seminar - Jan Gray
Speaker
Jan Gray, GRAY RESEARCH LLC
Topic
GRVI Phalanx: A Massively Parallel RISC-V FPGA Accelerator Framework
