News & events

 

Dr. Alexandra Branzan-Albu ran the ECE 399 course this year with participation from Ocean Networks Canada. The top designs competed to see who had the best set of designs.  Congratulations to the winners of the design competition.

1st Prize:

Project: Intelliplug

Team Members:  Riley Confrey, Alex Cote, Thomas Mastromonaco, Noah Rondeau, Sam Wheating

2nd Prize:

Project: Light Intensity over Time

Team Members: Zenara Daley, Gurjyot Grewal, Alex Fattouche, Cailan St Martin

3rd Prize:

Project: Detection of Bio-Fouling

Team Members: Chenchen Guo, Yukun Huang, Hamzah Mansour, Jake Runzer, Willy Su Yep

 

Congratulations to Reuven Gordon for receiving one of the Faculty of Engineering's Teaching Awards. Dr. Reuven Gordon has been an exceptional scholar and educator in our faculty since 2002. He is known for his dedication, leadership and effectiveness as a teacher.

Dr. Gordon has worked hard to engage his undergraduate students. An example of this is seen in his work with the ELEC220 Electrical Properties of Materials course, a course that was historically considered a challenging course to teach. His efforts have ensured that the material developed for this course is engaging and involves real world examples. His student evaluations are consistently outstanding and involve highly positive comments.

Dr. Gordon has also brought funding and support for graduate training as a Program Director for the "Materials for Enhanced Energy Technologies" or MEET program. Through collaboration with co-applicants, Dr. Gordon has helped develop a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative course that involves using webinars across different departments from four universities (SFU, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto). The course has been highly praised for the excellence of the instruction and the high relevance of the skills and information for the graduate students' future careers.

Four MTIS (Master of Engineering in Telecommunications and Information Security) teams have been shortlisted for the SWIFT Canada Challenge (A national competition on new cyber security solution for the banking industry).

The teams will fly to and spend one week in Toronto this October (all expenses paid), attend the SIBOS conference (over 8,000 international delegates from the financial sectors), be trained and coached in various workshops, and compete in the final challenge against 6 other top teams from across Canada, vying for the $20,000 grand prize.

On July 13th, Julie Payette is Canada's next Governor General. She is best known as a member of Canada's Astronaut Corps but she is also an accomplished electrical and computer engineer. She earned a Bachelors of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1986 and obtained her Masters of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990.  She has worked on high performance computing and voice recognition for IBM Canada and Bell Northern Research.

Payette holds an honorary degree from the University of Victoria (2002) and received the Engineers Canada Gold Medal - the highest honour from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers - in 2010. 

Sources:

CBC Website, 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/julie-payette-governor-general-1.4202793, 
Accessed July 13, 2017.

CSA Website, http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/biopayette.asp, 
Accessed July 13, 2017.

Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette, Accessed 
July 13, 2017.