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.
Computer Engineering graduate, Ivan Yuen, is a co-founder of the popular Wattpad app. Please read the full story on the Engineering website.
Val Chibisov, an electrical and computer engineering student, has been selected as one of just five Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Product Fellows out of 2500 applicants for the program from 200 universities across the U.S and Canada. Please see the full article on the Faculty of Engineering news site.
An ECE team has advanced to the prototyping phase of the Valeo Innovation Challenge. Please see the full article.
ECE professor Simarjeet Saini's research has been profiled in an article in the Waterloo Region Record.
Local Girl Guide units visited the University of Waterloo and became engineers for a day. Please read the full story.
