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.
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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.
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Electrical and computer engineering professor, Omar Ramahi, advances research in bone fracture diagnosis
Waterloo Engineering researchers have paired inexpensive wireless communication antennas with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how doctors can detect bone fractures.
Led by Dr. Omar Ramahi, an electrical and computer engineering professor, the team has created a new system to detect bone fractures that is fast, accurate and safe.
ECE PhD students, Mingcheng He and Shisheng Hu, win awards at the IEEE 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 (ICC) 2024 in Denver, Colorado in June. ICC is one of two IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences.
Electrical and computer engineering PhD students, Zhixuan Tang, Shisheng Hu, and postdoctoral fellow, Conghao Zhou, win Best Innovative Concept Project at the “Leaders of Tomorrow” IEEE Workshop
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 Workshop “Leaders of Tomorrow” hosted by the IEEE Toronto Section 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.