The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) graduate program at the University of Waterloo attracts outstanding Canadian and international applicants, with an enrollment of more than 350 graduate students. The ECE department offers an outstanding research environment in two recently completed new buildings with world-class research laboratories.
Graduate research has been benefiting from close connections with many high-technology companies in the Waterloo area and from the very generous intellectual property policy of the University of Waterloo, which vests the rights with the inventor.
The ECE graduate program covers very comprehensive research areas:
- communications and networks
- computer engineering, software engineering
- VLSI and circuits
- information security
- photonics
- MEMS
- power systems
- control and mechatronics
- signal and image processing
- quantum computing
- nanotechnology engineering
- intelligent systems, etc.
The ECE Department prides itself on providing a friendly and stimulating environment that allows its graduate students to excel in their development as a researcher. We encourage interactions among the graduate students, their supervisors, and other faculty members. In the department, the graduate student is not merely a number or a name, but is an integral part of a team that is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Our graduate students also have an opportunity to interact with our undergraduate students, who are among the best in Canada and have significant industry experience due to our unique co-op education program. Our commitment to quality, fairness and professionalism means that all students are given the respect that they deserve in order to enrich their postgraduate training and achieve their full potential.