Wednesday, March 2, 2016
ECE researchers receive over $1.8 million to partner with industry
Three electrical and computer engineering researchers are receiving more than $1.8 million to partner with Canadian-based companies and government organizations on strategic research projects.
The funding for Strategic Partnership Grants announced March 1 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) brings expertise from academia and industry together to collaborate on research that will lead to innovation and commercialization.
The University of Waterloo was awarded a total of $3.9 million in funding announced in Toronto by Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science.
The ECE researchers who will receive support through Strategic Partnership Grants are:
- Slim Boumaiza with BlackBerry Ltd. and Skyworks Solutions Inc: Digitally-assisted analog/RF circuits for enhancing the performance of 5G millimeter-wave massive MIMO transceivers ($581,844).
- Karim S. Karim with Teledyne DALSA: High resolution, hard X-ray digital imagers for destructive testing applications ($597,000).
- John Long with Sidense Corp. and Skyworks Solutions Inc: 2D material thin-film transistors and components for RF/mixed-signal applications ($633,613).
Read the full story at Waterloo News.