Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
News & Events
- The McMaster Marauders football team won the Vanier Cup for the first time on Nov 25, 2011! Final score: 41-38 in overtime! Elec & BioMed student Jacob Hopper was a member of the winning team. Congratulations Jacob!
- Dr. Jamal Deen, Canada Research Chair in Information Technology, and professor in ECE, recently received the 2011 IEEE Canada R.A.Fessenden Medal for his pioneering contributions in electronics and optoelectronics for communication. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Congratulations!
- Dr. Xiaolin Wu's recent advance in information display technology, called Temporal Psychovisual Modulation, has been reported in the MIT Technology Review, a premium media outlet for major innovations. The story is available on their website here. Congratulations Xiaolin!
- Dr. Tim Davidson has received a 2011 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for a paper co-authored with Nikos Sidiropoulos and former Chair of the ECE dept, Tom Luo. The paper appeared in the June 2006 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Congratulations Tim!
- ECE welcomes Kelly Lyth as the new Undergrad Admin Assistant. For any undergrad inquiries please send emails here. Welcome!
- Alexa Huang has accepted a new position within the MBA Academic Services Office. For any and all undergraduate inquiries, please send all emails here.
- Dr. Steve Hranilovic has been named Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of Optical wireless communications. Way to go!
- Dr. Perez-Pinal has contributed a chapter to Electric Vehicles: The Benefits & Barriers. You can view the chapter here.
- ECE's newest addition, Dr. Ali Emadi makes news in IEEE's "The Institute". Article here.
- UG Welcome Back BBQ - Come join your friends in ECE as we begin another school year! Sept. 14th. More info here.
- Engineering YouTube Contest: Enter to win a trip to Ottawa to meet the leaders of the Canadian consulting engineering industry! More info here.
- Graduate Student Day:
- ECE students Christine Gabardo and Kevin Watson won 2nd place for the Design Project Competition at the 10th International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE), at Ryerson University. Way to go!
Announcements
- The Level One Information Fair is being held Thursday Feb 16, from 11:30 to 3:30 in the ETB. Level One Engineering students are encouraged to come to this event to see the selection of programs available to them.
- ECE SocietyIndustry Night! Get information from several various company reps & see what opportunities await you! Monday Feb 6, from 6:30pm-10pm in the CIBC Hall (3rd floor of MUSC).
- 2011-12 Term 2 Midterm Schedule is now available!
- Elec Eng 4BF3 Tutorial T01 - room change to ETB-224 effective Tues January 24.
- UG Research Awards - NSERC USRA (summer 2012) application deadline is Feb 3, 2012. For details click here.
- UG Lab Access Cards have now been activated with the labs you are eligible for. If you don't have one, get yours from the DocuCentre, JHE 216A - there is a $10 (cash) refundable deposit.
- Elec Eng 4BF3 room change - MOVED to ETB-228
- COMP ENG 4TN4 - lecture time and room changes: Mo, Th 9:30; Tu 10:30 - all now in HH-102.
- Room change - Comp Eng 2S14 is now in ITB-137.
- Room change - Elec Eng 3CL4 is now in ITB-AB102.
- Final Exam Timetable
- 2011/12 Term 1 Midterm Schedule
- 3EJ4 C01 has moved from JHE/376 to TSH/B128. The change is effective Monday, September 19th.
- 2DP4 T01 has been moved to Wed 09:30 in CNH/104
- 2CI5 T01 has moved to JHE/376
- 3EJ4 T01 has moved to JHE/376
- 3FK4 T01 has moved to HH/109
- EE 4PL4 instructor email: ziemann@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca.
- EE/ENR TECH 4PM3:
- Instructor: Dr. Chi Tang, ETB/214
- E-Mail: tangck@mcmaster.ca
- Enrollment will be increasing. There is a waiting list and it is first-come, first-serve. Email Shirley.
- This class is for ELEC students ONLY and counts towards you Faculty of Engineering Technical Elective. No substitutions.
- STATS and CHEM solution for level 3 biomeds:
- Please drop ELEC ENG 3BB3 from term 2, this class will NOT BE OFFERED IN TERM 2.
- Please add ELEC ENG 3BB3 to term 1
- Please enroll yourself in STATS 3Y03 in term 2
- Make sure you apply and verify all changes
- Please drop ELEC ENG 3BB3 from term 2, this class will NOT BE OFFERED IN TERM 2.
Connect with ECE
If you are an undergrad and have questions, check the Current Undergrads page, the UG Advising page, or the FAQ's page for all of your answers.