Derek Wright, lecturer in ECE, is the winner of this term’s Engineering Society Teaching Award.
$10,000 winner Nurhachi: a virtual energy marketplace for distributed energy (Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award for Capstone Design)
ECE's Professor Werner Dietl is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. Google Faculty Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to support the research of world-class permanent faculty members at top universities around the world. For more information please visit: https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/02/google-research-awards-fall-2015.html
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.
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."
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.”
Baylis, right, the president of Baylis Medical, was the recipient of the Faculty of