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A University of Waterloo team has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) student competition out of 50 international participating teams. Team Waterloo is the only North American team among the selected six finalists competing for the best design of a wireless energy harvesting system. The final stage of the competition will be held in June at the annual IEEE AP-S meeting in the USA.

UW technology for vehicular communications received a global innovation award

A novel technology for vehicular communications developed by the University of Waterloo’s Broadband Communications Research group (https://uwaterloo.ca/broadband-communications-research-lab/) is recognized as an Innovation Awardee at the TechConnect World Innovation Summit 2016 in Washington, D.C, and listed on the TechConnect Innovation Awards home page

 Lan Wei, professor in electrical and computer engineering, was awarded $125,000 for her research into a versatile multi-physics device and circuit characterization and testing platform. Click here to read the full story.

Waterloo Engineering faculty members Lan Wei and Aiping Yu were two of four researchers campus-wide who received funding from the Canada

Derek Wright, lecturer in ECE, is the winner of this term’s Engineering Society Teaching Award. 

Congratulations to the following 4^th Year Capstone Design Projects for their outstanding achievements:

$10,000 winner Nurhachi: a virtual energy marketplace for distributed energy (Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award for Capstone Design)

Google Research Award:  Fall 2015

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

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.

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."