The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that Zahra Dehghani Tafti, an incoming PhD student, has been selected as the sole Faculty of Engineering recipient of the Maks Wulkan Graduate Scholarship for Fall 2025.
Each year, the University of ݮƵ’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Capstone Design program turns the bold ideas of its final-year students into innovations that shape the future. This highly anticipated event is more than just an academic milestone—it's a launchpad for cutting-edge technology, where creativity meets real-world problem-solving. From next-generation hardware to AI-powered solutions, Capstone projects push the boundaries of what’s possible, showcasing the ingenuity, technical skill, and entrepreneurial spirit that define ݮƵ engineers.
Congratulations to the authors of a collaborative research paper, including electrical and computer engineering adjunct associate professor Dr. George Shaker, for receiving a Best Paper Award (second place) in the General Paper Category at the prestigious .
The paper, titled “Radar-Based In-Home Monitoring System for Supporting Aging and Wellness,” presents innovative advancements in the use of radar technology to enable in-home health monitoring, addressing critical challenges faced by aging populations.
On November 28th, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of ݮƵ unveiled the future of software engineering with its second Project Showcase for the graduate course Engineering Self-Adaptive Software Systems (ESASS). Led by Dr. Ladan Tahvildari, this innovative course, with support from IBM, integrates cutting-edge industry technologies with research-driven, hands-on learning to tackle real-world challenges in software adaptability.
Congratulations to PhD student Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari. Sanoubari won a Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2024) in Odense, Denmark in October for her work "What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children's Design Ideas.”
Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it.
University of ݮƵ engineers have achieved that technological feat that will help diabetics to monitor their glucose levels and other people faced with other chronic health problems.
Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Omid Bagheri for winning a Best Student Paper Award (third place) for his work entitled “Radar Antennas Employing a Modified Dielectric GRIN Luneburg Lens” at the 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO).
Last week electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Anshul Goyal, and his supervisor, electrical and computer engineering professor, Kankar Bhattacharya, won the Best Poster Award in the Power Engineering Track for a poster Goyal presented for their accepted paper entitled “Impact of Multi-Colored Hydrogen System Participation in Electricity Markets,” at the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2024 (CCECE).
Nicolas Quintana (BASc ‘24, electrical and computer engineering), crossed the stage at convocation this year cheered on by his family of University of ݮƵ alumni and ex-faculty.
In this Q&A, Quintana shares highlights from his student experience, and how his family’s close ties to each other and to ݮƵ helped set him up for success.
Today, fifty-four new Fellows were elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering - two of those new Fellows are University of ݮƵ electrical and computer engineering professors – professors Ladan Tahvildari and Alfred Yu.
The Academy's President, Dr. Soheil Asgarpour commented: “Over the past 37 years, Fellows of the Academy have provided engineering leadership in the fields of education, infrastructure, innovation, energy, transportation, and many more. New Fellows have been selected for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world and for their service as role models in their fields and to their communities.”