Electrical & Computer

Nafeesa Mahboob, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral canadiate, received the Basil Papadias Student Paper Award for the best student paper at the biannual IEEE PowerTech 2015 Conference held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The paper was co-authored by her two doctoral supervisors Claudio Canizares and Catherine Rosenberg, both electrical and computer engineering professors. The award was presented with a plaque and 1000 euros.

​Two women entering Waterloo Engineering programs are among six campus-wide to receive the first University of Waterloo HeForShe IMPACT Scholarships.

Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Michael Reimer helped to develop the first source of on-demand single time-bin entangle photon pairs with no possibility of producing extra unwanted pairs. Reimer, who is part of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), worked with a team of international researchers to complete the project.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding announced today will support two Waterloo Engineering research initiatives:

A Waterloo Engineering electrical and computer engineering professor has been awarded a federal grant to develop a training program that will help drive innovation in areas as diverse as automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing and healthcare.

Mohamed Kamel has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.