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
Seminar and Demonstration: The 4-source PNA-X Pro is transforming RF measurement and characterization
Title: The 4-source PNA-X Pro is transforming RF measurement and characterization
Date: February 27, 2026
Time: 10:30am to 12:00pm
Room: EIT 3142
Presenter: Aidin Taeb, Keysight Technologies
PhD Seminar Notice: LPB-Gen: Systematic Large Log-Parsing Benchmarks Generation
Candidate: Hetong Dai
Date: February 27, 2026
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: EIT 3145
Supervisor: Shang, Weiyi
All are welcome!
News
Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Trevor Blaikie, selected winner of the NAMBE 2024 Best Journal Paper Award
Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Trevor Blaikie, has been selected as the winner of the NAMBE 2024 Best Journal Paper Award. Trevor’s research, supervised by Dr. Zbig Wasilewski, earned top recognition for the paper titled “Optimizing GaAs/AlGaAs growth on GaAs (111)B for enhanced nonlinear efficiency in quantum optical metasurfaces.”
Electrical and computer engineering alumnus, Dr. Ahmed Sayed, receives prestigious Best Thesis Award from Drones
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Dr. Ahmed Sayed, a former PhD student in our department, who has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award from Drones. Drones is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MDPI—a pioneer in scholarly, open-access publishing, supporting academic communities since 1996.
Electrical and computer engineering graduate students earn international recognition for radar research
Congratulations to Zhenan Liu, a MASc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, whose ground-breaking research has earned international recognition. Liu’s paper, “Real-Time 4D Radar Perception for Robust Human Detection in Harsh Enclosed Environments,” has received Honorable Mention in the prestigious 2025 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Student Paper Competition.