Faculty

Graduate nanofabrication research yields commercial opportunity

Characterizing nanostructures using atomic force microscopy (AFM) presented a commercial opportunity

for University of Waterloo graduate student Babak Shokouhi. He and his team developed a novel process

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering sadly reports that retired Professor Mohamed Kamel died December 4. "He will be sorely missed by his current and former students, colleagues at the University and from around the world and by the research community at large. The passing of Dr. Kamel is a major loss to all those who have known him and to the scientific community at large."

Challenging the status quo

Lan Wei - Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Impact

ECE Professor Liang-Liang Xie has been named newly elevated IEEE Fellow for his contributions to fundamental limits of feedback control systems and wireless networks.

Earlier this week, GM Canada announced $1 million in funding to support the Educating the Engineer of the Future campaign. This support will fund a Research Chair in advanced materials while also sponsoring Waterloo Engineering’s Capstone Design projects involving software development, which is key to GM Canada’s work on “the connected car.”

Frank Baylis, a Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus,  is the new Liberal MP in the western-Montreal Pierrefonds-Dollard riding, winning the seat from NDP incumbent Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe.

Baylis, right, the president of Baylis Medical, was the recipient of the Faculty of

A research paper published in the Journal of Renewable Energy by PhD student Omar Hafez and Professor Kankar Bhattacharya was selected for one of the 2015 Renewable Energy Top Paper awards by Elsevier Publications.  The award is based on the number of Web of Science citations received until 2014.