Electrical and Computer Engineering News

Congratulations to Dr. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan who received the 2013 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Award for 'pioneering contributions in biomedical engineering'. 

The Alberta Doctoral Awards for Chinese Students Scholarship Program is a collaborative partnership involving the Chinese Ministry of Education, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and the University of Calgary.   Xiang Li, has been awarded a 2013 Alberta Doctoral Awards for Chinese Students (ADACS) Scholarship consisting of $31,500 per year for 3 years.   Congratulations and continued success. 

The following students are recipients of the 2013 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Masters Scholarships: Militina Gorobets - $26,500 per year for 2 years and Fatima Binte Zia - $26,500 per year for 2 years. Congratulations and continued success. 

The following students are recipients of the 2013 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Doctoral Scholarships: Amin Farshidi - $13,500 (NSERC Top Up) per year for 2 years; Fatemeh Henddijani Fard - $31,500 per year for 2 years; Mohammad Moshipour - $11,500 (NSERC Top Up) per year for 2 years; Mayada Fawzy Younes - $31,500 per year for 2 years; Ahmad Poursaberi - $31,500 per year for 1 year;  Congratulations to all our scholarship recipients and continued success in your education.

Congratulations to Saeed Rezaei Nazifi, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Fadhel M. Ghannouchi wins both AITF and Killam sholarship. Individually the awards were for, AITF $31,500 for one year and Killam $33,000 for two years.

Ramzi Darraji, PhD won the Best Conference paper Award at the IEEE WAMICON 2013 held in Orland, Florida, on April 7-10. His paper, co-authored by Professor Fadhel M. Ghannouchi, is on “High Efficiency Doherty Amplifier Combining Digital Adaptive Power Distribution and Dynamic Phase Alignment”. Ramzi has also received a trophy and recompense from conference sponsor, Cree Inc., to recognize outstanding research contribution presented at the WAMICON 2013.

First place went to Emily Marasco of Electrical Engineering!

Based on student nominations submitted over a six-week period in both the fall and winter semester, and a wide range of criteria previously set out by the SU, the teaching excellence committee conducted about 80 class visits to collect written feedback about professors and teaching assistants. The winners were then decided after the committee analyzed over 1,600 evaluation forms and Norm Bartley won for Engineering. 

Congratulations to the winning student team from Electrical and Computer Department: In Drilling Alignment for an Inertial Measurement Unit By Michael Poscente, Gavin Mercer, Curtis Mak and Michael Sobieraj Academic Mentor: Dr. Martin Mintchev The premise of the project was to eliminate magnetometers from existing MWD systems due to the fact that they can be influenced by almost any metal nearby. In order to do this the team opted to use only inertial measurements in the form of gyroscopes and accelerometers. These sensors aren't perfect themselves however, and that is where In-Drilling Alignment comes in, during 8 minute pauses in drilling the team was able to calibrate the sensors using known motion, and make an error model that could be applied to subsequent drilling until there is another pause.

Engineering grad student and volunteer with the Africa Book Project, Billy Wu, stands proud among Ugandan students who received donated books.

A formal dinner with deep seeded traditions, this annual event is the highlight of the second semester for first and second year. Students are introduced to members of the faculty and industry, served a four star meal, and charged a student price. Awards are given to those professors who helped build a solid foundation for their students’ education. The Rookie of the Year and Sophomore of the Year are selected through student nominations, awarded to the students who best represents engineering spirit and shows outstanding leadership within the engineering community. Outstanding Teaching Excellence Award Winners for 2013 went to three members of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Mahmood Moussavi, Norm Bartley, and Henry Leung  

Congratulations to Diwakar Krishnamurthy who was presented the 2012-2013 Graduation Banquet Professor Excellence Award for Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Engineering Students' Society (ESS).  The award is presented annually to a faculty member or sessional instructor of the Schulich School of Engineering who has demonstrated excellence, enthusiasm, and personality in teaching undergraduate engineering students.  The award was presented on March 23, 2013 at the ESS graduation banquet.

One of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal paper in the months of September and October 2012.

Andres Nygren, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Enginieering, supervised an undergraduate student this past summer with the help of the PURE program. Exploring a brand new science field; learning new software programs; helping to design an innovative machine to tackle an environmental issue; taking an active part in developing an award-winning science project. It’s hard to believe that University of Calgary student Colin Brown managed to pack all of these activities into one summer schedule.

Six faculty members at the Schulich School of Engineering have been recognized as some of Canada's most accomplished engineers, two from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Professors Fadhel M. Ghannouchi and Rangaraj M. Rangayyan. Congratulations to them both on this outstanding honour. 

Chris Bowal and Nigel Gutzmann take all their third-year engineering classes together and now they’re going to share in another experience—an intense eight-month mentoring program to help them become entrepreneurs.

Groundbreaking research on an innovative method for early non-invasive detection of colon cancer published in the leading international journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy  An innovative patent-pending research on swallowable, self-stabilizing capsule endoscope for the early detection of colon cancer performed by Ph.D. Candidate Dobromir Filip,  Professors Martin Mintchev and Orly Yadid-Pecht and collaborator Professor Christopher Andrews from the Faculty of Medicine is scheduled for publication in February 2013. The leading author, Mr. Filip, was video interviewed by the journal and the interview was published on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3d8Pc-UTo&list=PL658355494B017F28&index=124

Together we have closed another successful year and we extend our wishes to you and your family a healthy New Year and continued success in all ventures of your personal and professional life.

Friday, December 14, 2012 marked the Department’s year-end celebration, where everyone came together to reflect on the past year. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student’s group handed out awards to various staff, faculty and student members. Hichem Zakaria Aichour, ECEG President awarded the Professor of the year to Elise Fear and the Supervisor of the year to Fadhel Ghannouchi. Attached is a complete list of awards.

On November 22, the Schulich School of Engineering recognized faculty and staff for their dedication and excellence in the areas of teaching, research, mentoring, and service to the school. The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering received multiple awards: Mr. Norm Bartley won both the ECE Teaching Excellence Award and the SSE Outstanding Teacher Award and Dr. Mohamed Helaoui won the 2012 Early Research Excellence Award