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Friday, June 23, 2017

Professor Alfred Yu wins the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award

ECE's Professor Alfred Yu has been awarded the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award by the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound. This award is in recognition of Professor Yu's substantial contributions to the advancement of therapeutic ultrasound, and specifically for major research accomplishments in biophysics of sonoporation and wave-cell interactions.

Congratulations Alfred!

Monday, May 29, 2017

ECE MASc student Ryan Kinnear among first place team winners of the Waterloo Datathon

ECE MASc student, Ryan Kinnear, supervised by Professor Ravi Mazumdar, is among the first place team winners of the Waterloo Datathon held on May 13th.

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Professor Alfred Yu awarded $493K from Canadian Institutes of Health Research

ECE's Professor Alfred Yu has been awarded $493K from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for his Project Grant entitled "VAST-MAP: Vascular Stiffness Mapping for Aging Analysis Using High Frame Rate Ultrasound."

CIHR's Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. The program is highly competitive with a success rate of only 16 percent.  

Congratulations Alfred!

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Professor Claudio Canizares receives 2017 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

Professor Claudio Canizares is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award “for fostering partnerships between industry and power engineering education and for developing innovative online power engineering programs”.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Startups share $400K in backing from Spectrum 28 fund

Three companies aiming to do big things in the medical technology, insurance and automotive industries are the first to receive funding through a program for promising startup ventures at the University of Waterloo.

Elucid Labs, Knote and Acerta Systems Analytics will share $400,000 provided through the Spectrum 28 Mentor & Venture Program, a partnership between venture capitalist Lyon Wong and Waterloo Engineering.

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Professor Derek Rayside and his students chosen to compete in General Motors AutoDrive Challenge

Students at the University of Waterloo have been chosen to compete in General Motors AutoDrive Challenge, a three year autonomous vehicle design competition to develop and demonstrate a fully operational driverless vehicle. 

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

ECE Professor Sherman Shen named University Professor

ECE Professor Sherman Shen has been designated "University Professor" by the University of Waterloo's Tenure & Promotion Committee.  Professor Shen is the first in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to be honoured with this distinction.

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Professor Karim Karim featured by CMC Microsystems as success story for reinventing X-ray technology

A novel combination of advanced design tools, low cost materials and commonly used manufacturing technologies and processes is helping University of Waterloo engineering professor Karim S. Karim develop better, safer imaging at a lower cost.

His startup company, KA Imaging, is commercializing a highly sensitive X-ray detector that produces a higher quality image with almost 40 percent less radiation, making the technology safer for both patients and the clinicians that operate it.

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Professor Claudio Canizares to participate as a panelist today at Energy Day 2017 hosted by WISE

The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) is hosting Energy Day 2017 all day today, billed as a meet-up of academic, industry and government experts who have come together to share insights and new ideas for our energy future.

Attendees will meet and mingle with WISE researchers, talented young Waterloo entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders.

For more information, please visit:

https://wise.uwaterloo.ca/energyday2017

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

ECE's Mohammed Nassar, PhD student, receives 2017 Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student (AETS)

The recipients of the 2017 Amit and Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student (AETS) were presented at Monday’s meeting of the University of Waterloo’s senate.

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