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.
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)
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
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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.”
TORONTO — Josh Donaldson has just launched his 40th home run of the year into the upper deck of the Rogers Centre and 48,000 delirious Blue Jays fans are losing their minds. Everyone, that is, except Stephen Utter.
Zhou Wang wins Emmy for developing technology that assesses video and image quality - affecting millions of viewers everyday
The University of Waterloo will award 24 outstanding female students a total of $288,000 over the next four years as part of a new scholarship supporting ongoing efforts to achieve comprehensive, long-term and sustainable gender equality.
This year’s recipients of the University of Waterloo HeForShe IMPACT Scholarships included Computer Engineering's Jenny Ma. Click here for the full story.