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Helping robots develop personal touch November 2006: Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Mehrdad Kermani uses CRS F-3 Robots in teaching robotics course. Creating circuits for the human body November 2006: Robert Sobot, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to build a team that will make Western a leader in the field of integrated circuit design. Ryan Kohn's ingenuity changes SE350y forever October 2006: Fourth-year Software Engineering student Ryan Kohn saw an opportunity to improve his third year Software Engineering Design I course (SE350y), and his efforts are still being rewarded today. Ivey and Western Engineering Students Win Hong Kong Case Competition October 2006: A group of Ivey HBA/Engineering students have won this year's Citigroup International Case Competition held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. EK3 Innovation Lab - Grand Opening June 2006: Western officially opened the EK3 Innovation Lab which will be used by 15 graduate and undergraduate engineering students every year, supervised by Prof. Hamada Ghenniwa. Award Winning Report June 2006: Dr. Tarlochan S. Sidhu's Technical Report Protection Issues during System Restoration won the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee Award and the IEEE PES Working Group Award. Distinguished University Professor Award June 2006: Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Dr. Rajni Patel was honoured as a winner of a Distinguished University Professor Award. London Hydro / Western Engineering Collaboration May 2006: London Hydro is collaborating with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario to the tune of $125,000. Charlie Thompson Scientific Achievement Award April 2006: Dr. Sumit Agrawal, Chief Surgical Resident in the Department of Otolaryngology at Western, was awarded the 2006 Charlie Thompson Scientific Achievement Award for his research paper entitled "3-D Endoscopy of the External Auditory Canal: A Step Towards Virtual Reality". Excellence in Research Award April 2006: Dr. Tarlochan S. Sidhu, Hydro One Chair and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the winner of the 2005 Engineering Award for Excellence in Research for the Faculty of Engineering. Excellence in Teaching Award April 2006: Dr. Kenneth A. McIsaac of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been selected as the winner of the 2005 R. Mohan Mathur Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Engineering. CFI funding for Sabarinathan March 2006: The University of Western Ontario recently attracted a total of $1,656,566 for Canada Foundation for Innovations (CFI) funding grants. On March 27, 2006 CFI announced a total of seven projects at Western will receive funding under the CFI's new Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF), including funding for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Dr. Jayshri Sabarinathan. New Concurrent Degree March 2006: The Faculty of Engineering and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are teaming up again. Effective September 1, Western will offer a new concurrent degree program leading to a BESc in Electrical Engineering and an MD from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Two other similar programs already exist in Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering. Four ECE Professors make USC Teaching Honour Roll November 2005: Four professors from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been included in the USC Teaching Honour Roll. This recognition is given to professors that receive an accumulated average of 6.3 or higher (out of 7) on the first 14 questions of the student teaching evaluations of all their courses. This year, the following ECE faculty members have been included in the list: Dr. Hanif Ladak, Dr. Ken McIsaac, Dr. Vijay Parsa, Dr. Rajiv Varma. Dr. McIsaac won two separate awards - one in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and the other for Engineering Science courses. Dr. Ladak also won two separate awards - one in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and one in Medical Biophysics. Dr. Varma has won this award for the fourth time since joining Western in 2001. Award-Winning Paper August 2005: Ms. Xiaoqing Liu a Ph.D. student supervised by J. Samarabandu received an award for best student paper for her paper titled "An Edge-based Text Region Extraction Algorithm for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation" in IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2005) Electrostatics Conference/Helmut Kramer Award Winner Dr. I. I. Inculet, Dr. G. S. P. Castle, and Dr. K. Adamiak of the Applied Electrostatic Research Centre (AERC) attended the European Federation of Chemical Engineering 10th International Conference on Electrostatics in Helsinki/Espoo Finland from June 14-17, 2005.
They presented several papers and Dr. Inculet received the Helmut Kramer Award of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. Award-Winning Paper Title: "A Hybrid Granting Algorithm for QoS Support in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks" Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award May 2005: Mr. Faheem Ahmed, a Ph.D. student supervised by L. Capretz, received a Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award from the UWO Society of Graduate Students, the Graduate Teaching Assistants Union and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Only 16 TAs received this award out of 495 nominations. NRC Energy Ambassadors Winner Matt Thompson, a fourth-year Western Electrical Engineering student, has been selected as the winner of the NRC Energy Ambassadors competition for his paper titled Energy Conservation Competition Dual Source Heating. Undergraduate Teaching Award The Bank of Nova Scotia, UWO Alumni Association and the University Students' Council are pleased to acknowledge the nomination of Dr. Rajiv Varma and Dr. Ken McIsaac for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for the 2004-2005 academic year. Dr. L. Brown Receives Patent Dr. Lyndon Brown recently received a US patent for his Power Supply and Control Equipment for Resistance Welding Machine. LHRI Award Mahdi Tavakoli, a doctoral student supervised by Dr. R. Patel and Dr. M. Moallem received the Sister Mary Doyle Leadership Award at the Lawson Health Research Institute Research Days Awards Banquet held on March 8, 2005. The award honours a trainee of LHRI who has shown exemplary leadership skills as well as passion for his/her research work and the LHRI, providing guidance and mentorship to others at LHRI, and volunteering to benefit LHRI. Teaching Award Dr. Rajiv Varma has been awarded the USC Teaching Honour Roll Award of Excellence 2003 – 2004, the third year in a row he has won since coming to Western. Canada Research Chairs Dr. Rajni Patel, whose innovative research may lead to less invasive and more cost-effective surgery techniques, is one of six Western faculty named to a Canada Research Chair (CRC) by Prime Minister Paul Martin. Object Tracking & Image-Based Control System for the Impaired Dr. Jagath Samarabandu and Dr. Ken McIsaac were recently featured in the Precarn Post for their research on object tracking and image-based control systems for the visually impaired. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Welcomes... Dr. Arash Reyhani-Masoleh as an Assistant Professor in the area of computer engineering. Prior to joining Western Engineering, Dr. Reyhani-Masoleh was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. L. S. Lauchland Engineering Alumni Award Dr. Peter Castle has been selected as the winner of the 2004 L. S. Lauchland Alumni Award. The award presentation ceremony took place at the Homecoming Anniversary Dinner on October 2nd at the Greek Canadian Club. Dr. Jin Jiang Awarded Three Honourary Positions Dr. Jin Jiang has been awarded three honourary positions from three different universities in China International Journal of Emerging Electrical Power Systems The Berkley Electronic Press and Editor-in-chief Dr. T. S. Sidhu, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Western Ontario are pleased to introduce an innovative peer-reviewed electronic journal - International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEEPS). CFI Funds Four Projects With $154,079 in new funding from CFI, Dr. Vijay Parsa will establish a Laboratory for Advanced Digital Signal Processing Research at Western. Undergraduate Awards
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