Andrew Morton, PEng

Andrew Morton, PEng
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Location: E5 4118
Phone: 519-888-4567 x31222
Status: Active

Biography

Dr. Andrew Morton is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He teaches students in the Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering programs, focusing on digital hardware and real-time systems.
Dr. Morton's interests include computer architecture, embedded systems design, real-time scheduling, and applied optimization.

Research Interests

  • computer architecture, embedded systems, real-time systems, applied optimization

Education

  • 2005, Doctorate Computer Engineering, Waterloo, Canada
  • 1996, Master of Science Computer Science, Guelph, Canada
  • 1993, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Guelph, Canada

Teaching*

  • CS 493 - Team Project 1
    • Taught in 2019
  • CS 494 - Team Project 2
    • Taught in 2019, 2020
  • ECE 222 - Digital Computers
    • Taught in 2023, 2024
  • ECE 252 - Systems Programming and Concurrency
    • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2022
  • ECE 320 - Computer Architecture
    • Taught in 2024
  • ECE 423 - Embedded Computer Systems
    • Taught in 2024
  • MTE 241 - Introduction to Computer Structures & Real-Time Systems
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • MTE 481 - Mechatronics Engineering Design Project
    • Taught in 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Christian Fobel, and Gary Gr'ewal, and Andrew Morton,, Hardware Accelerated FPGA Placement, Microelectronics Journal, 1667, 2009
  • G. Gr'ewal, and S. Coros, and D. Banerji, and A. Morton,, Assigning Data to Dual Memory Banks in DSPs with a Genetic Algorithm using a Repair Heuristic, Journal of Applied Intelligence, 53, 2007
  • Andrew Morton, and Wayne M. Loucks, A Hardware/Software Kernel for System on Chip Designs, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 869, 2004

Graduate studies

  • Not currently accepting applications for graduate students