ECE student Neil Sarkar has received a medal for excellence in research leading to innovative developments in microsystems and related technologies. Please see the full article.
ECE professor Mohamed Kamel has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Please read the full article.
Waterloo Engineering is the third feeder undergraduate school for software engineers hired in Silicon Valley, according to newly-released information from Riviera Partners, a San Francisco-based placement firm. The first two schools are UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Waterloo Engineering is reuniting with the Canadian Graduate Engineering Consortium for the second national tour in October. Please read the full article.
Four Engineering teams with great business plans and strong pitches swept the July Velocity Fund Finals. Please read the full article.
ECE professor Otman Basir is a nominee in the Globe and Mail newspaper's Innovators At Work competition. They have a video profile showcasing his nomination.
ECE PhD student Mohammed AlShareef received the 'Best Student Paper Award' at the 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2014) held in Victoria, Canada from July 13-16. The paper was titled "Electrically Small Particles for Harvesting and Channeling Infrared Energy" and was co-written with his supervisor, Professor Omar Ramahi.
ECE professors Vijay Ganesh and Sebastian Fishmeister and ECE MASc student Zach Newsham have received the 'best student paper' award at the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2014) conference held in Vienna from July 14-17. The paper was titled "Impact of Community Structure on SAT Solver Perf
Two Waterloo Software Engineering (SE) graduates were part of the team who helped to fix HealthCare.gov, the web site used to get uninsured Americans signed up for Obamacare. Please read the full article on the Software Engineering website.
ECE professor Hany Aziz has received a Discovery Accelerator Supplement from NSERC to support research deemed to be novel or potentially transformative. Please read the full news release.