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.

STUDENT WORKING AT DESK2,500+ STUDENTS
Feather icon96 FACULTY MEMBERS
$27+ research funding$27M+ RESEARCH FUNDING
GROUP50+ SUPPORT STAFF
GRADUATE11,800+ ALUMNI

Future undergraduates

Our undergraduate program provides students with rigorous foundations in math and physics while exposing them to exciting applications early on in their program.

Future graduates

Our students come from all over the globe to experience our first-rate faculty, education, and research programs. Our graduates are among the most sought after in the world.

 

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News

  1. Nov. 7, 2022Electrical and computer engineering professor, Kerstin Dautenhahn, selected as one of the 35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES) recipients

    Electrical and computer engineering's Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn was selected as one of the 35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES) recipients at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intellige

  2. Oct. 13, 2022Getting off to a great start

    Two first-year electrical and computer engineering students begin their studies backed by $100,000 Loran scholarships

    Originally published in Waterloo News.

    Two new students with impressive leadership potential began their academic careers at the University of Waterloo this fall backed by prestigious national scholarships worth up to $100,000 over four years.

  3. Sep. 30, 2022Electrical and computer engineering professor, Ladan Tahvildari elected for second term as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE)

    Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor Ladan Tahvildari, who was recently elected Chair for a second two-year term of the  IEEE Computer Society TCSE.

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Events

  1. Nov. 11, 2022MASc Seminar Notice: "OppropBERT: An Extensible Graph Neural Network and BERT-style Reinforcement Learning-based Type Inference System" by Piyush Jha

    Candidate: Piyush Jha

    Title: OppropBERT: An Extensible Graph Neural Network and BERT-style Reinforcement Learning-based Type Inference System

    Date: Nov 11, 2022

    Time: 4:00pm

    Location: EIT 3141

  2. Nov. 12, 2022Fusion Conference
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    This year's Conference will be held on November 12th, 2022. Fusion will also be hosting workshops in the brand-new, interactive Fusion Bootcamp on November 7th, 2022. The conference is open to high school, undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students.

  3. Nov. 14, 2022MASc Seminar Notice: "Expressive and Efficient Memory Representation for Bounded Model Checking of C programs" by Xiang Zhou

    Candidate: Xiang Zhou

    Date: Nov 14, 2022

    Time: 10:00am

    Location: EIT 3141

    Supervisor: Arie Gurfinkel

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