Originally built as a way to secure cryptocurrency transactions, blockchain is a digital platform that verifies and records exchanges. Blockchains are global networks that can have millions of users, each adding information/data which is secured through cryptography. This creates an indisputable history of these transactions that cannot be modified by a single user, eliminating opportunities for fraud, and it is this feature that has some heralding blockchain as as a way of increasing cybersecurity.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released its 2019 World University Rankings and once again Waterloo finds itself amongst the best universities in Canada and around the world. Building on momentum, electrical engineering at Waterloo ranked 49th globally, up two spots from last year.
Three University of Waterloo Graduate Students are among top entries for the NSERC Science, Action! Video contest:
Women are important in technology, but it’s not exactly a cake walk being one in the industry. Just ask Ella Hilal, the director of data science at Shopify.
Hilal has been in Waterloo for nearly 15 years, completing her PhD in engineering at the University of Waterloo. She was one of about three women in her class of 40 and dealing with a pregnancy.
Each year, the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) brings together 150 of the most innovative and creative engineering undergraduate students from across the nation to compete against each other in design, consulting, presentation and debate. This year, CEC 2019 was held here at the University of Waterloo – and the Programming competition was coordinated by our own computer engineering student, Thomas Dedinsky. Not only was Dedinsky dedicated to help organize the event, he also created the code that powered the Programming competition.
Dear ECE students, faculty and staff,
We are so very saddened to hear of the passing of one of our own students, Mohammad “Mishkat” Islam, who was in his second year of our undergraduate program. On behalf of the ECE department, we send our heartfelt condolences to Mishkat’s family and loved ones.
For more information, please see the announcement on the UW website.
Sincerely,
Vincent Gaudet (Chair)
Fakhri Karray, ECE Professor and co-Director of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute, will be inducted in Gatineau/Ottawa on 30 March 2019 as an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow for his exceptional contribution to engineering in Canada.
Congratulations Fakhri!
A new distribution system designed by researchers at the University of Waterloo would reduce electricity prices by more than five per cent while also improving service reliability.
The design involves the integration of the two kinds of electric current that power homes, industries and electric vehicles—alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC).
Researchers found efficiencies by designing a system that delivers both kinds of current to customers instead of the AC-only distribution systems now in use throughout the world.
Manufacturers and researchers can now test automated vehicles without a driver on public roads