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The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

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.

Waterloo students capture top awards at OEC

Waterloo Engineering teams won a number of the top awards at the Ontario Engineering Competition hosted on campus from January 29 to 31. The 37th annual competition attracted about 300 competitors from 16 Ontario universities and colleges as well as judges, sponsors and guests.

Second year Waterloo mechatronics engineering students Colin Cooke, Michael Jonas, Jackson Fishe and Mitchell Catoen took first prize in the Junior Design contest.

Intellijoint Surgical Inc., a medical technology company co-founded by Waterloo Engineering graduates, announced today that it has been given US Food and Drug Administration clearance for the next generation of intellijoint HIP™ - the company's flagship product initially developed as a Capstone Design project. 

University of Waterloo - Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Professor Claudio Canizares has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Canada Electric Power Medal.  Established in 2007, the Electric Power Medal is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for the

Professor Vijay Ganesh of Waterloo's ECE department recently won an IBM Faculty Award for the year 2015 for his work on string solvers and their applications to malware analysis and security. Professor Ganesh, his collaborators, and students also won 3 best paper awards in 2015. Their work on understanding why feature models are easy for SAT solvers landed them a best paper award at the SPLC 2015 conference held in Nashville, Tennessee.

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."

Professor William Wong highlighted in the Waterloo Region Record’s Technology Spotlight for his work in ‘heterogeneous integration’.

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