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
PhD Seminar Notice: Broadband driver design for optical high-speed data centre interconnecting systems
Candidate: Ray Cui
Date: November 5, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: E5 5047
Supervisor: Long, John
PhD Seminar Notice: Perceptual Relationship and Representation Learning for 3D Understanding and Quality Enhancement
Candidate: Xiaoyu Xu
Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 9:30 AM
Location: EIT 3142
Supervisor: Wang, Zhou
PhD Defence Notice: The Role of Time in Cryptography: Play, Fast Forward and Speed-up
Candidate: Ahmed Zawia
Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.
Supervisor: Hasan, Anwar
News
PhD student, Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari, wins Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Social Robotics
Congratulations to PhD student Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari. Sanoubari won a Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2024) in Odense, Denmark in October for her work "What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children's Design Ideas.”
No more needles! Tracking blood sugar on your wrist
Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it.
University of Waterloo engineers have achieved that technological feat that will help diabetics to monitor their glucose levels and other people faced with other chronic health problems.
Former electrical and computer engineering PhD students win Best Paper Award at ACM MOBIHOC 2024
Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) alumni, Samira Ghanbarian and Arpan Mukhopadhyay, along with ECE professor, Dr. Ravi Mazumdar, and Dr. Fabrice Guillemin, project leader at Orange Labs, won a Best Paper Award at ACM MOBIHOC 2024 last week.