Eight research partnerships between Waterloo Engineering professors and industries have been awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Strategic Project Grant funding. Announced March 16, the financial support across campus includes $5.3 million for strategic project grants and $9.6 million through the federal Research Support Fund for 2014-2015.
Electrical and computer engineering professor Amir Khandani, pictured below, is the recipient of over
The other Waterloo Engineering researchers who were awarded NSERC's Strategic Project Grant funding include:
-
William
Wong
(electrical
and
computer
engineering)
partnering
with
MW
Canada
to
create
electronic
fabric,
in
which
UV
lights
are
integrated
directly
into
fabric.
The
electronic
fabric
is
to
be
used
in
water
filtration
systems.
-
Dayan
Ban
(electrical
and
computer
engineering)
partnering
with
TeTechS,
Norcada,
and
COM
DEV
International
to
develop
novel
THz
devices
for
high-speed
optical
wireless
communication
systems.
-
Slim
Boumaiza (electrical
and
computer
Engineering)
partnering
with
Keysight
Technologies
and
Focus
Microwaves
to
create
efficient
bridges
between
flexible
5G
radio
frequency
devices
and
circuit
levels,
as
well
as
circuit
and
system
levels.
-
Zhongwei
Chen
(chemical
engineering)
working
with
Ballard
Power
Systems
Inc.
and
Grafoid
to
aid
the
effort
to
make
proton
exchange
membrane
fuel
cells
a
commercially
viable
technology.
-
Krzysztof
Czarnecki
(electrical
and
computer
engineering)
who
is
creating
a
safety
extensible
automotive
systems
and
software
architecture
(SEASAR)
to
enable
post-manufacturing
vehicle
upgrades
through
smart
apps
and
devices.
-
Guang
Gong
(electrical
and
computer
engineering)
partnering
with
DBJay
Ltd.,
IBM
Canada,
and
IBM
United
States
to
increase
the
security
and
efficiency
of
mobile
cloud
computing
with
new
mechanisms
for
securely
combining
compression
and
encryption.
- Bruce MacVicar (civil and environmental engineering) partnering with Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Parish Geomorphic Ltd., and City of Toronto to assess the response of channel bed sediment and benthic invertebrates to floods in urban creeks under different management scenarios.
NSERC Strategic Project Grants aim to increase research and training in four target areas that could strongly influence Canada's economy, society or environment in the next 10 years: environmental science and technologies, manufacturing, and natural resources and energy, and information and communications technologies (ICT).
As world leaders in ICT research, Waterloo Engineering is uniquely prepared to advance the next wave of global technology: the Internet of Things. With the largest engineering school in Canada, along with the highest concentrations of electrical and computer engineering and computer science researchers in North America, Waterloo has multiple elite research institutes with unique ICT facilities along with significant industry partnerships that optimize the economic impact of research.