ConGESE Master's ProgramThe Consortium for Graduate Education in Software Engineering (ConGESE) provides education specially structured for software professionals in Ontario industries, leading to a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis in Software Engineering. This unique program is offered jointly by six Ontario universities, with strong industrial support.
Each of the universities offers courses in this program. The courses are commonly offered in locations convenient to cooperating industrial sponsors and are designed for the working professional, who might otherwise find it difficult to attend regular, on-campus graduate programs.
This program provides a blend of academic rigour and industrial relevance. Each course is taught by a faculty member with strong credentials in research, real-world experience and teaching in the subject area. For more detailed information about the program, refer to the World Wide Web homepage at http://www.congese.on.ca/
The application procedures and admission criteria for the ConGESE Master's program are the same as for other applicants to the Master's program. The ConGESE program, however, is a part-time program in which the students are typically sponsored by their company. Applicants to this department must be able to take courses in the Waterloo/Toronto area. Applicants must indicate on the application form that they are interested in the ConGESE program.
ConGESE MASc Requirements
For ConGESE students the degree requirements and procedures are the same as for other MASc students, except that the number of courses taken each term is normally one.
In addition to satisfying all other requirements for the MASc degree, a student pursuing a specialization in software engineering must take courses to satisfy the ConGESE requirements which place emphasis on core software engineering material, project management material, software technology material, application engineering material, and related electives.
Centre for Wireless Communication
As an academic research and educational unit attached to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) was established in 1996 with a donation from Ericsson Communications Canada. The mission of the Centre is to develop a world-class telecommunications research facility that will serve as a place for training highly qualified personnel in telecommunications and as a facilitator for enhancing the research activites of its faculty researchers. The objectives are to pursue first rate research, to train highly qualified personnel, and to transfer technology with industry.
The Centre's research program is built on the strength of ongoing research by its faculty researchers and their graduate students. The presence of the CWC will provide an umbrella environment for enhancing telecommunications-related research at the University of Waterloo. The Centre, although still in an evolving state, has now a full complement of faculty researchers to carry out its mission.
The research program of CWC is being driven by a vision of emerging telecommunications technology in wireless and wireline communication networks and systems. The interworking of wireless and wireline networks and systems offers an extended mobile environment that separately would encounter stringent constraints. The support of multimedia services by the extended communications environment presents many challenging problems of a theoretical and practical nature. The CWC currently has fifteen faculty researchers pursuing and guiding graduate students in the wireless and wireline telecommunications-related research. Based on the expertise of the faculty researchers, the research program of CWC is structured along four thrust areas: Communication Networks, Digital Transmission, R.F. Technology and Signal Processing. The nature of the research is both basic and mission-oriented. The research is being carried out using a combination of analytical methods, and software and hardware approaches. In keeping with its mission statement, the CWC is actively seeking industrial interaction and collaboration to provide scholarships and fellowships for graduate students on the one hand, and to incorporate industrial relevance into the students' research programs on the other.
With the presence of the CWC, the academic program in terms of course offering in telecommunications in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the graduate level has expanded considerably. With the research strengths and commitments of its faculty in the four thrust areas,the CWC is in a vintage position to meet the challenges in the training of highly qualified personnel for the telecommunications industry.
A programme for each graduate student (both MASc and PhD) wishing to specialize in the wireless communication area will be individually structured between the student and his/her faculty supervisor. Courses offered in wireless communications programs are comprised of existing graduate courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CWC sponsored new graduate courses and future courses to be designed and structured. Graduate courses that are directly related to this specialization are given below.
Existing Graduate Courses
E&CE 603: Digital Signal Processing
E&CE 604: Stochastic Processes
E&CE 605: Queuing Systems
E&CE 610: Broadband Communication Networks
E&CE 611: Digital Communcations
E&CE 612: Information Theory
E&CE 613: Digital Speech Processing
E&CE 614: Communications Over Fading Dispersive Channels
E&CE 616: Principles of Data Communication
E&CE 617: Data Compression with Applications to Speech and Image Coding
E&CE 671: Microwave and RF Engineering
E&CE 710 (Topics): Special Topics in communications and Information Theory
E&CE 730 (Topics): Special Topics in Solid State Devices
E&CE 750 (Topics): Special Topics in Computer Software
Please contact the Director of the Centre for Wireless Communications (Professor Jon Mark, jmark@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) or the Administrative Assistant for the Centre for Wireless Communications (Jenniffer Werth, jwerth@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) for further information.