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  • ECE students Matthan Mokhtar and Jason O'Reilly compete in Mohawk College's first annual Apps for Health Conference. More info here.
  • Dr. Wong and several members of ECE are honoured at the annual Engineering Applause and Accolades. View the entire list of award recipients here. More info on the night here.
  • Dr. Deen was presented with the 2011 IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Award on May 9 at the 24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering held in Niagara Falls. More here.
  • ECE students take it home!
    • ECE undergrad, Nathan Cox wins the Dr. Ray Johnson Athletic Award.
    • ECE Master's student, Mike Irvine is named McMaster Team MVP for Men's fencing.
    • Way to go! More info here.
  • ECE welcomes it's newest faculty members Dr. Ali Emadi, and Dr. Franco Perez-Pinal. More here.
  • ECES Industry Night and Paintball pics are posted on ECE's flickr page. Make sure you check them out!
  • Dr. Jamal Deen is the recipient of the 2011 Electronics and Photonics Division (EPD) Award from the Electrochemical Society. Congrats! More info here.
  • The Faculty of Engineering hosts the annual Applause and Accolades. More info here.
  • Kipling Group Photo is available here.
  • Dr. Mohamed Bakr has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) valued at $120K over three years.
    • The NSERC DAS Program provides significant funding to a small number of outstanding researchers who have a well-established research program, and who show strong potential to become international leaders in their area of research.
    • Congratulations to Mohamed for this recognition of his outstanding research work in ECE!
  • More congrats are in order for Dynamic Demand Controller, as they take 3rd place in the Eco-Entrepreneurship Challenge. Way to go Nathan, Varun, Deepak, Piyush and Aekam!
  • Congrats to all of ECE's undergrads for hosting another successful POSTER DAY! For all media coverage, including video clips and pictures, please click here. Top prizes were awarded to the following groups:
    • Semi-Autonomous Navigation System of Smart Wheelchairs
    • Projecting into the Future
    • Dynamic Demand Controller
  • Kipling Breakfast photos are now up, check them out here!
  • Jim Reilly has been featured in IEEE Spectrum for his research on depression and schizophrenia. More info here.
  • Check out ECE at the Engingeering 1 Information Fair! View the photostream here.
  • Head of Nokia Worldwide, and ECE graduate Stephen Elop to speak at McMaster. More info here.
  • Webinar hosted by Dr. Doyle: Transforming the Freshman “Cornerstone” Design Course Through Modeling and Simulation. To attend this event, please register here.
  • Poster Day is back and bigger than ever this year! Get all the details here. Energy Minister headlines workshop on Ontario’s electricity future. More info here.
  • Dr. Ho Fai (Henry) Ko is the 2010 winner of the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) outstanding PhD dissertation award. More info here. Way to go Henry!
  • Max Wong receives Engineering Research Achievement Award. Congrats from all of ECE!
  • ECE grad student Munir El-Desouki has been featured as one of CMC's success stories. More info here.
  • IEEE Hamilton: February Events
  • ECES Meet the Profs Night pictures are now up here!
  • IEEE Hamilton presents Tech Talk, Job Hunting Using Social Media. More info and to register, click here.
  • ECE wins the Faculty of Engineering Photo Competition! Check out the winning photo here! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ECE!
  • Elec & Comp Info Night
    • March 9, 5:30 in ITB AB102

  • Biomed Info Night

    • March 1, 5:30 in ITB AB102
  • Michael Pley, an ECE Electrical & Management grad, was appointed CEO of COM DEV yesterday. More details here.
  • Natalia Nikolova and Xiaolin Wu have been elevated to IEEE Fellows. Congrats from all your friends in ECE! More info here and here.
  • ECE grad student, Waleed Shinwari, was presented with the Dean's Award for Excellence in Communicating Graduate Research. Congrats from all your friends in ECE! More info here.
  • Level 1 Information Fair - February 17, 2011 in ETB from 11:30 am - 3:30 pm
  • Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Student Exchange Program - The program offers Summer Research Scholarships to Ontario graduate and undergraduate students in science, engineering, and health science disciplines. Interested? Click here for more info.
  • Shahin Sirouspour and grad students Pawel Malysz and Ramin Mafi demo robots at Ontario Science Center. More info here.
  • Shiva Kumar named Senior Member of Optical Society. More info here.
  • Adam Kinsman is the recipient of the 2010 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence awarded by CMC Microsystems. Congrats from all your friends in ECE, Adam! More info here.
  • The McMaster Students Union (MSU) handed out its annual teaching awards September 23 at a ceremony honouring faculty for their outstanding commitment to teaching. Congrats go to ECE's Dr. Nicolici! More info here.
  • NVIDIA Establishes First CUDA Teaching Centre in Canada in ECE! Click the NVIDIA banner on the left or here for more details.
  • Congrats go to ECE's Jun Chen on receiving an Early Research Award on the fundamental limits of multisource multicast communication.
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  • Former ECE grad, Stephen Elop has been appointed President and CEO of Nokia. More info here.
  • ECE's Jim Reilly, Hubert de Bruin, and Ahmad Khodayari-Rostamabad, as well as Dr. Hasey, have applied machine learning to EEG patterns and successfully predicted how patients with schizophrenia would respond to clozapine therapy. More info here.
  • ECE's post doc, Peter Bevan is spotlighted in the Hamilton Spectator for receiving funding through the Government of Canada's new Elevate program with MITACS Inc. Also receiving funding were ECE's Peter Basl and Li Liu. More info here.
  • Congrats go to Team "Robot Unicorn Attack" after the 2010 International Autonomous Robot Competition at U. of Windsor for placing 1st in the Drag Race and 3rd in the Circuit Race. The team representing McMaster was Mike Irvine, Bryan House, Dan Kish, Emily Bot and Danny Vacar.
  • ECE is delighted to announce that Dr. Mike Noseworthy has been appointed as a co-director of the School of Biomedical Engineering. More information here. Congrats from all your friends in ECE!
  • ECE is delighted to have been selected by NVIDIA as one of the inaugural CUDA Teaching Centers, based on our demonstrated commitment to advancing the state of parallel systems education using CUDA C/C++ for GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) programming.
  • IEEE Recognizes ECE's Dr. Raymond Findlay as the recipient of the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award. More details here.
  • Congrats go to ECE grad student Richard Fanson, and team for winning the OCE Discovery 10 - Young Entrepreneurs Start-Up Pitch Awards. Watch him and his team receive the award here. Way to go Richard!
  • ECE's Dr. Simon Haykin receives Honourary Doctorate at Convocation. More here.
  • The Contactless ECG project from this year's 4OI6 class has just been awarded the MTT Gold Prize in the Alive Video Competition! This award is given to undergraduate students who can feature the best wireless design. Congratulations to this group on yet another achievement! View the video here. More info here.
  • Congrats go to Dr. Nicolici for receiving an MSU Teaching Award! More info here.
  • It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Arthur Gladwin. Dr. Gladwin was a long time faculty member of ECE. He served as the first Department Chair in the early sixties and retired in 1975. More here.
  • ECE welcomes Dr. Ali Emadi to the department! Dr. Emadi is a Top U.S. auto hybrid researcher, as well as Canada Excellence Research Chair in Hybrid Powertrain. For more details on Dr. Emadi, and his work see below:
  • Simon Haykin to receive honorary degree, more here.
  • McMaster and Austria are connected by a Hertbeat thanks to ECE exchange students Reinhard Peer and Christoph Larndorfer. Read the full article here.
  • 4OI6/4BI6 Poster Day projects here! Great job to all final year students and good luck in your futures!
  • Yaser Jafar, Charles Wah, Khaled Chebaro, and Lucas Dobrowolski have placed THIRD out of 36 in the North America Altera Innovate Design Contest with their 3D Camera System. Congrats from all of ECE!
  • Are you a highschool student interested in ECE? Be sure to drop by ECE's May@Mac on May 8 to see what the buzz is all about!
  • Did you miss Kipling breakfast?! If so, you missed this!
  • Congrats go to Tim Davidson on his CRC Renewal in Communication Systems. More info here.
  • Congratulations go to the Elec Eng 4OI6 group of Yaser Jafar, Charles Wah, Khaled Chebaro, and Lucas Dobrowolski on becoming one of the top 5 finalists in the North America Altera Innovate Design Contest. The project uses the Altera DE2 board to convert images from two different cameras into one 3D image. Good luck from all of ECE!
  • ECE Undergrad and Cyclist, Joseph Veloce has just returned from the World Championships in Copenhagen where his team placed 11th in the team sprint. Congrats!
  • Guess who's the newest Computer Engineer! BARBIE--find out more here.
  • The ECES Industry Night was a tremendous success! Great job ECES! Pictures here.
  • ECE Undergrad, Joseph Veloce will be representing Canada in the Cycling World Cup in Cali, Columbia from December 10 - 12. From all your friends in ECE, GOOD LUCK!
  • Dr. Max Wong receives the presigious Humboldt International Research Award. More here.
  • Congrats go out to Amanda Anton and Morgan Cunningham, two ECE undergrads on the McMaster Solar Car team! The team placed 22nd out of 32 teams. More info here.
  • Want to see what final-year undergrads work so hard on all year? Come check out the 4OI6/4BI6 Poster Day on April 6th, 2010. More info here.
  • ECES Bowling Competition pictures can be found here.
  • Congrats to Awkward Silence and Fire's Team! Both teams participated in the IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition 3.0!
  • ECES Clothing Sale! More information available here.
  • Drop by the department's office on October 30, 2009 in your scariest costume and participate in ECE's 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest! See the Facebook Group for more details.
  • Good luck goes out to Amanda Anton and Morgan Cunningham, two ECE undergrads on the McMaster Solar Car team! The team competes in Australia Oct. 7 - Nov 4th. More info here.
  • Congrats go out to our ECE grad students, Munir Eldesouki, Mohammed Swillam, and Alireza Shoa, who all won GSA Awards. More info here.
  • Congrats go to Dr. Kiruba, who has had his Canada Research Chair in Informaton Fusion renewed! More details here.
  • Information for Level 2 students here.
  • Recent ECE grad Seralathan Kamalanathan has created a website that provides explanations for many vexing queries. Here for more details.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Tim Davidson who has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. The research award is worth $120,000 over 3 years. Well done Tim!
  • ECE is proud to announce the following people have been nominated for GSA Awards:
    • Dr. Shirani
    • Munir Eldesouki
    • Alireza Shoa
    • Mohammed Swillam
  • Miss the Level 2 Orientation? Check out the PowerPoint presentation here.
  • Dr. Jamal Deen was presented with a technology achievement award by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce at its annual awards gala. More info here.
  • ECE '07 grad Mohammed Khalaf stars in the new Arabic reality TV show, "Stars of Science."
  • ECE has officially launched its YouTube Channel. Check it out, leave comments, post video responses and so much more!
  • See what the graduating class worked so hard on this year! View some sample projects as well as the EE 4OI6 Photo Gallery here.
  • Shahin Sirouspour has been awarded the 2008 President's Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Congrats from all your friends in ECE!
  • Computer Engineering Grad, Syed Jafri, creates a popular iPhone game. From all of your friends in ECE, GREAT job! Click here for more details.
  • Congratulations go to Cheryl Gies for being awarded with the Graduate Students Association Award for Contributions by Non-Academic Staff, as well as Terry Greenlay Manager - Facilities, Electrical & Computer Engineering, who won the President's Award. Way to go from all your friends in ECE!
  • Interested in seeing what our graduating Biomeds do? Come to the EE 4BI6 Final Presentations on April 7th. For a complete schedule, please click here.
  • VitaSound Audio, which manufactures hearing aid devices using technology licensed from McMaster, has been named one of three winners of the second annual Innovations@Work Awards. Some of these devices are based on neurocompensator-based hearing aid advancements developed by McMaster research teams led by Associate Member Sue Becker, professor of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour, along with Simon Haykin and Ian Bruce. More details here.
  • ECES 2009 T-shirt design is selected and the winner is Piyush Patel. You can place your order with your class (ECES) representatives.
  • Former ECE graduate and current President of Microsoft's Business Division, Stephen Elop, will be receiving an honourary degree at this Spring's Convocation. Congrats from all your friends in ECE Steve!
  • Jamal Deen, professor of electrical and computer engineering at McMaster, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).  He is the first engineering professor at McMaster to receive this recognition.
  • The winner of the ECE Halloween Costume Contest is Pimpin' Paul; congrats!
  • ECE mourns the loss of Hamida Najak, Undergrad Administrative Assistant. Our thoughts are with her and her family.
  • Drs. Natalia Nikolova and Alexandru Patriciu receive ORF Funding for Health Research.
  • Ahmed A. Farid wins Best Paper award in the "Young Researcher" Category.
  • ECE mourns the loss of Dr. Colin K. Campbell, professor emeritus and former Chair of our ECE department.
  • Dr. Deen receives Royal Society of Canada medal.
  • Ian Bruce has been named Biomedical Coordinator
  • Dr. David Capson appointed Chair of ECE Department
  • Dr. Tim Davidson appointed Acting Director of the School of Computational Engineering & Science
  • Dr. Natalia Nikolova named Canada Research Chair
  • ECE faculty and staff win multiple GSA awards
  • Dr Xiaolin Wu receives best paper award
  • Dr. Simon Haykin awarded the R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal
  • Dr. Dumitrescu wins NSERC University Faculty Award
  • Dr. Wong elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Dr. Capson named winner of McMaster Lifetime Teaching Achievement Award, 2007