Richardus (Dick) van Heeswijk, ECE Professor Emeritus, has passed at the age of 92. Professor van Heeswijk joined the department in 1961 specializing in the area of high voltage. He will be remembered for the enthusiasm and passion he brought to the classroom.
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Karly Smith, 3A biomedical engineering studen at UW and student of ECE adjunct professor George Shaker, has qualified to the Top 75 in Canada for NSERC's Science, Action! competition.
The video explores the possibilities of mm-wave radars, which can be directly applied for use in healthcare, smart homes, and autonomous vehicles.
Good luck, Karly and Prof. Shaker!
ECE's Denny Lee (adjunct professor), Ahmet Camlica (PhD student), Karim S. Karim (professor), and Vieworks' Hyunsuk Jang (R&D Engineer), received an Honorable Mention Poster Award at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting for their poster titled "A novel radiation detector with proportional charge gain."
While humans may be able to drive in all kinds of weather, and at night, the sensors that will enable a central-processing unit to do the same – safely – do not yet exist. Krzysztof Czarnecki, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, envisions the timeline being eight to 10 years before all-weather autonomous driving is a viable option.
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ECE Professors Guang Gong and Zhou Wang have both been designated with the title of ‘University Research Chair.’ The University owes much of its reputation and stature to the quality of its professors and their scholarly accomplishments. Designation of this title recognizes a professor’s exceptional achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. A University Research Chair may be held for up to seven years, with the possibility of a re-nomination.
Congratulations!
ECE students and , ECE professors Vijay Ganesh, Krzysztof Czarnecki and Computer Science's Professor Pascal Poupart's paper entitled "An Empirical Study of Branching Heuristics through the Lens of Global Learning Rate
A little bit of history should be made this fall on Colby Drive, an otherwise unremarkable loop of pavement in an industrial area of Waterloo.
After more than a year of painstaking work, it’s where researchers at the University of Waterloo expect to become the first university-based team to test an autonomous car – cleverly nicknamed Autonomoose by students - on any public road in Canada.
Recent research by ECE PhD students Nahid Juma and Jonathan Shahen, Professor Mahesh Tripunitara, and an external collaborator, establishes that work that received a prestigious award from the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US, is deficient at its foundations.
The 2017 recipients of the Waterloo Engineering Faculty and Staff awards for outstanding contributions to education and research will be celebrated by Engineering Dean Pearl Sullivan and colleagues at a dinner to be held in January.
ECE will be well-represented!
The Outstanding Staff Performance Award technical category winner is Fernando Rivero Hernandez in recognition of his professionalism, excellent work ethic and commitment to providing outstanding technical support to Engineering faculty, staff and students.