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Some Nunavut communities could cut their fossil fuel use by up to half with renewable energy that wouldn't cost any more than the aging diesel generators they now use, a new study has concluded.

"The technical challenges have been for the most part addressed," said Claudio Canizares, one of the authors of the report that was conducted by six Inuit, academic and environmental groups and funded by the World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Vice-President, Academic & Provost Ian Orchard has announced the winners of the 2015 Outstanding Performance Award.

Effective May 1, 2005, in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement, the University established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

The 2015 winners from Electrical and Computer Engineering are:

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.