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.
ECE professor En-Hui Yang was selected by the North American School of Information Theory to give the 2014 Padovani lecture at the 2014 IEEE North American School on Information Theory in Toronto, held from June 18-21. He was presented with a certificate for this honour at the awards luncheon at the recent
ECE professor Andrew Kennings was part of a team that placed first in the ISPD 2014 Detailed Routing-Driven Placement Contest held as part of the International Symposium of Physical Design. The contest was sponsored by Mentor Graphics Corporation.
ECE professor Raafat Mansour has been awarded the 2014 Ontario Professional Engineers Engineering Medal for Research and Development.
The Engineering Medal honours those association members who have contributed substantially to advancing the engineering profession, and recognizes excellence in the practice of engineering.
A state-of-the-art lab designed for research programs ranging from photonics to quantum computing to nanoelectronics, headed by ECE professor Zbig Wasilewski, opened its doors on June 4. Please read the full article on the Engineering website.
