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Friday, October 28, 2016 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Utilizing Thermal Storage to Enable High Penetration of Renewables in Canada

IEEE Kitchener - Waterloo Section

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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Presents a Seminar on:
Utilizing Thermal Storage to Enable High Penetration of Renewables in Canada

Dr. Steven Wong
T&D Renewable Integration Specialist
CanmetENERGY – Natural Resources Canada

Invited by:
Professor Kankar Bhattacharya

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Professor Ladan Tahvildari elected Member-at-large for the IEEE Technical Council of Software Engineering

ECE's Professor Ladan Tahvildari has been elected a Member-at-large for the IEEE Technical Council of Software Engineering (TCSE).  The IEEE Computer Society is the world’s largest professional organization devoted to computer science and the Technical Council of Software Engineering (TCSE) is the voice of software engineering within the IEEE and the Computer Society.

Congratulations!

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Waterloo-led experiment achieves the strongest coupling between light and matter

Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen. The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit was so large that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable until now.

Read the full story.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

PhD student Mohamed El Badawe wins 2016 CBIE Libyan Student Excellence Award

ECE's Mohamed El Badawe, PhD candidate supervised by Professor Omar Ramahi, has won a 2016 Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Libyan Student Excellence Award.  When he was awarded his scholarship through the Libyan-North American Scholarship Program, Mohamed decided focus his research on enabling communities to better utilize their resources and develop a renewable energy source to replace Libya’s dependence on fossil fuels. Read the full story.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Master's student Yunzhe Li wins 2016 Teledyne DALSA, Inc. Componentware/CAD Award

ECE master's student Yunzhe Li has been awarded the 2016 Teledyne DALSA, Inc. Componentware/CAD Award.  Li is supervised by Professors Karim Karim and Peter Levine.  The award was presented in Montreal yesterday at the 2016 CMC Microsystems Texpo (Innovation 360).

Congratulations!

 

Monday, October 17, 2016

PhD student Mahsa Emami-Taba and Professor Ladan Tahvildari win IBM's 2016 Best Student Paper Award

ECE's Mahsa Emami-Taba, PhD student, and her supervisor, Professor Ladan Tahvildari, win IBM's 2016 Best Student Paper Award for their work "A Bayesian Game Decision-Making Model for Uncertain Adversary Types".  The paper will be presented on November 2 at CASCON 2016 - the 26th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Congratulations!

Monday, October 17, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

STATE-OF-THE-ART MANY-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION

IEEE Distinguished Lecture

STATE-OF-THE-ART MANY-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION

Speaker:  Gary G. Yen, Regents Professor, FIEEE, FIET

Oklahoma State University, School of Elecrical and Computer Engineering, USA

Place:  University of Waterloo, EIT 3142

*Refreshments will be provided

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Stop and Talk with President Feridun Hamdullahpur

Come to "Stop and Talk", a chance to chat with President Feridun Hamdullahpur in the Great Hall of the Student Life Centre (SLC). There's no agenda or formal remarks, just a chance to connect and talk about how your term is going and anything else that's on your mind. 

Monday, September 26, 2016

Professor Alfred Yu receives the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award

ECE professor, Alfred Yu, has been awarded the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award for his exceptional contributions to ultrasound flow imaging and key discoveries in therapeutic ultrasound biophysics.  This award recognizes the achievements of a researcher in the area of ultrasonics and its applications, and is specific to those researchers in the early stages of their career.

Congratulations Alfred!