News

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

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St. Jacob’s based company Deep Realities featured in Waterloo Region Record’s Technology Spotlight with ECE’s Bernie Roehl as the 3-D software developer

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Waterloo engineer who founded web-based grocery delivery service is named one of America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40

Apoorva Mehta, an alumnus of the University of Waterloo’s electrical engineering program, has been named to the annual Forbes Top 40 Under 40 list. The list highlights America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40.

Challenging the status quo

Lan Wei - Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Impact

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.

ECE professor Lin Tan, her PhD student Jinqiu Yang, and collaborators from IBM received the CAS Research Project of the Year Award in 2015. Their project is titled "Prioritizing and Visualizing Security Findings”.

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.”

Frank Baylis, a Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus,  is the new Liberal MP in the western-Montreal Pierrefonds-Dollard riding, winning the seat from NDP incumbent Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe.

Baylis, right, the president of Baylis Medical, was the recipient of the Faculty of

Recent MASc graduate Talal Alharbi and his supervisor Professor Kankar Bhattacharya received a Best Conference Paper Award for their paper, “Optimal Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids”, at the 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) held in October 2015 at London, Ontario, Canada.