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.
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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
MASc Seminar Notice: On the Calculation of Mutual Information for Channels with Gauss-Markov Noise
Candidate: Kasra Fallah
Time: 1:00pm
Date: July 19, 2024
Location: EIT 3145
Supervisor: Ravi Mazumdar
All are welcome!
MASc Seminar Notice: Local Navigation for Autonomous Maneuvering of Marine Vessels in Broken Ice Fields
Candidate: Rodrigue De Schaetzen
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Online - contact the candidate for details.
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Smith
All are welcome!
MASc Seminar Notice: Design and Density Control of a Swarm of Bimodal Particles
Candidate: Justine Shaw
Date: July 31, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Location: in-person EIT 3145 and online
Supervisor: Professor Gennaro Notomista
All are welcome!
News
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.
Electrical and computer engineering PhD students, Mingcheng He and Shisheng Hu, win awards at IEEE’s 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 2024 in Denver, Colorado in June.
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 Toronto Workshop “Leaders of Tomorrow” for their work “Reconfiguration-Cost-Efficient Virtual Network Embedding in Satellite Networks.”