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The leap from engineer to entrepreneur was a logical one for (BASc 2009,Electrical; MMSc 2014, Management of Technology), owner of , an online custom bridal party outfitting business. “Entrepreneurs, like engineers, are all about solving problems,” says Tsoi. “Every day I wake up and think about each business problem with an analytical mind, just like the engineer I am. It’s the same approach.”

X-ray technology is at the beginning of a digital revolution that will transform the Canadian health-care system by detecting diseases such as cancer and heart disease faster and more accurately than traditional X-ray machines, allowing patients to begin treatment sooner.

Some Nunavut communities could cut their fossil fuel use by up tohalf with renewable energy that wouldn't cost any more than theaging diesel generators they now use, a new study has concluded.

"The technical challenges have been for the most partaddressed," said Claudio Canizares, one of the authors of the report that was conductedby six Inuit, academic and environmentalgroups andfunded by the World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Vice-President, Academic & Provost Ian Orchard has announced the winners of the 2015 Outstanding Performance Award.

Effective May 1, 2005, in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement, the University established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

The 2015 winners from Electrical and Computer Engineering are:

A University of ݮƵ team has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) student competition out of 50 international participating teams. Team ݮƵ is the only North American team among the selected six finalists competing for the best design of a wireless energy harvesting system. The final stage of the competition will be held in June at the annual IEEE AP-S meeting in the USA.

UW technology for vehicular communications received a global innovation award

A novel technology for vehicular communications developed by the University of ݮƵ’s Broadband Communications Research group (/broadband-communications-research-lab/) is recognized as an Innovation Awardee at the TechConnect World Innovation Summit 2016 in Washington, D.C, and listed on the TechConnect Innovation Awards home page

A UW student team formed by Electrical Engineering and Systems Design Engineering undergraduate and graduate students Wei Zhang, Edrick Wong, Brady Kieffer and Qinghua Shen, supervised by Professor Sherman Shen, participated in the IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2016 Global Competition which held its final competition on March 20, 2016 in Shanghai, China, during the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Our team "UݮƵEngineer" is in the Top 10 list based on classification accuracy. Congratulations for your excellent results!