Faculty

A University of Waterloo team has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) student competition out of 50 international participating teams. Team Waterloo is the only North American team among the selected six finalists competing for the best design of a wireless energy harvesting system. The final stage of the competition will be held in June at the annual IEEE AP-S meeting in the USA.

UW technology for vehicular communications received a global innovation award

A novel technology for vehicular communications developed by the University of Waterloo’s Broadband Communications Research group (https://uwaterloo.ca/broadband-communications-research-lab/) is recognized as an Innovation Awardee at the TechConnect World Innovation Summit 2016 in Washington, D.C, and listed on the TechConnect Innovation Awards home page

 Lan Wei, professor in electrical and computer engineering, was awarded $125,000 for her research into a versatile multi-physics device and circuit characterization and testing platform. Click here to read the full story.

Waterloo Engineering faculty members Lan Wei and Aiping Yu were two of four researchers campus-wide who received funding from the Canada

Derek Wright, lecturer in ECE, is the winner of this term’s Engineering Society Teaching Award. 

Congratulations to the following 4^th Year Capstone Design Projects for their outstanding achievements:

$10,000 winner Nurhachi: a virtual energy marketplace for distributed energy (Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award for Capstone Design)