Electrical and computer engineers shape the future through innovation. They develop and improve systems that serve everyday needs of society spanning from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy, to breakthroughs in wireless technology. Our faculty and students do everything from creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, to building real-time embedded systems to advance the design and reliability of commercial products. ECE - the future is what we do.
Research
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a dynamic and innovative hub of cutting-edge advancements in technology and engineering. Faculty members lead pioneering research in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, embedded systems, and renewable energy, addressing real-world challenges and driving technological breakthroughs.
Resources
Events
PhD Defence Notice: Planning and Replanning Near-Optimal Robot Coverage Paths in Partially Unknown Environments
Candidate: Megnath Ramesh
Date: August 5, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Online - contact the candidate for more information.
Supervisors: Dr. Stephen Smith, Dr. Baris Fidan
MASc Seminar Notice: Generative Models for Planning and Decision-Making
Candidate: Akash Karthikeyan
Date: August 6, 2025
Time: 11:30am
Location: Zoom (link: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/4123583238?pwd=ZU1rUXN6dGhLL0NuS2I4d01rbCswQT09)
Supervisor: Dr. Yash Vardhan Pant
All are welcome!
MASc Seminar Notice: Optimizing Post-Quantum TLS on Embedded Clients
Candidate: Ganyu Xu
Date: August 7, 2025
Time: 10:00am
Location: EIT 3145
Supervisor: Dr. Guang Gong
All are welcome!
News
Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Trevor Blaikie, selected winner of the NAMBE 2024 Best Journal Paper Award
Electrical and computer engineering PhD student, Trevor Blaikie, has been selected as the winner of the NAMBE 2024 Best Journal Paper Award. Trevor’s research, supervised by Dr. Zbig Wasilewski, earned top recognition for the paper titled “Optimizing GaAs/AlGaAs growth on GaAs (111)B for enhanced nonlinear efficiency in quantum optical metasurfaces.”
Electrical and computer engineering alumnus, Dr. Ahmed Sayed, receives prestigious Best Thesis Award from Drones
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievement of Dr. Ahmed Sayed, a former PhD student in our department, who has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award from Drones. Drones is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MDPI—a pioneer in scholarly, open-access publishing, supporting academic communities since 1996.
Former Waterloo Engineering Dean named to Order of Canada
Dr. Adel Sedra, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and past Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is among four people with connections to the University of Waterloo included in the list of new honourees.