Contract Instructor Positions Winter 2012

Contract instructor positions are avaiable at the Department of Electroincs.http://www.doe.carleton.ca/hiring/ContractInstructors.Win2012.pdf

Prof. Winnie Ye wins Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award

Winnie Ye has been selected as one of the inaugural recipients for the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.

This new award, as officially described by Assistant Vice President Carol Miles, is a recognition of Winnie’s outstanding contributions to the teaching community at Carleton, and is evidence of her exemplary work with her students.  As one of three new teaching awards initiated by the Educational Development Centre, the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching is a unique award recognizing new faculty members who bring Energy and enthusiasm to their teaching, highlighting  Carleton's commitment to teaching Excellence and innovation.

DoE Research Group Wins IEEE Best Paper Award

The paper by Behzad Nouri, Michel S. Nakhla, and Ramachandra Achar on “A Novel Algorithm for Optimum Order Estimation of Reduced Macromodel”

Has won the "Best Paper Award" in the 15th IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects. This is a premier international conference focused on High-Speed Design, Electronic Packages/Interconnects and Signal/Power Integrity; held in Naples, Italy, May 20 11. 

Contract Instructor Positions

Contract instructor positions are avaiable at the Department of Electroincs. Please click here from more information

Undergraduate Student Laxman Pradhan won IEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

Laxman Pradhan, an Biomedical Electrical Engineering student has won the IEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award - Region 7.

IEEE is the largest professional organization in the world. The purpose of this award by IEEE is to "recognize annually, in each Region of the IEEE, the student member most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated with student activities. The value of a pattern of dedicated, ongoing service to a Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter is certainly recognized. However, this award is designed to reward a particular event, program or product of IEEE activities."

Laxman is also the chair of Carleton IEEE Student Branch. As quoted by Kanishka Jayawardene, Regional Student Representative for IEEE Region 7 (Canada) in announcing the news: "I am delighted to let you know that Laxman Pradhan from Carleton University, Ottawa has been selected to receive this year's Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award. The judging committee consisted of Om Malik (R7 Director), Denard Lynch (RSAC), and Kanishka Jayawardene (RSR). Laxman was selected from a number of excellent candidates for his the efforts he put into planning, developing, and delivering microcontroller workshops for students at Carleton University. His workshops attracted the attention of high school students as well."

Laxman will receive a plaque and three years of free IEEE membership.

DOE Professor Tad Kwasniewski Obtained 22nd Patents in 6 Years

In March 8, 2011, Electronics Professor Tad Kwasniewski received approved for his new patent,

 US Patent No. 7902888 (with Altera Corporation); Issue date: Mar 8, 2011; Haitao Mei, Shoujun Wang, Bill Bereza, Tad Kwasniewski; Charge pump with reduced current mismatch

With this, Professor Kwasniewski now has 22 US patents issued in the past 6 years alone.

Professor Jacques Albert Wins NSERC NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant

Dr. Jacques Albert has won a NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grants on "Deep UV laser for photoinduced photonic components", and the grant is $137,437.

Congratulations to Prof Ram Achar: Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CAS Society

Professor Ram Achar has been selected as the Distinguished Lecturer under the DLP program of IEEE CAS society for years 2011 & 2012.

Read more here

http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/icss/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=49&Itemid=72/#Ramachandra%20Achar

100th Graduate Student Completing Degree from DOE Professor

Chancellor Professor Dr. Jim Wight has mentored a continuous stream of graduate students pursuing their thesis research in the fields of microwave circuits, phase locked circuits, antenna structures, and signal processing for wireless communications and radar over past 35 years.  On January 24, 2011, Mr. Denis Kutman became Prof. Wight’s 75th MASc student to defend his thesis.  Including the 25 PhD students who have already graduated under Prof. Wight’s supervision, Denis has the honor of becoming number 100!

Denis’ thesis topic was on “Solutions for Radar Pulse Deinterleaving”, and was undertaken in collaboration with the Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa.

Prof. Wight’s students typically undertake their research in conjunction with government research labs (such as the Communications Research Center and the Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa) or industry research labs (such as Ericsson Canada, EMS Satcom, D-TA Systems, and S-5 Systems).  This collaboration provides the students with a “real world” component to their research, and allows the collaborating research teams to undertake “high risk” projects without jeopardizing research schedules and product development.   After finishing degree, these students went on to have successful careers as faculty members in universities, scientists in government research labs, and senior technical staff in industry.

DOE student won ICSICT best student paper award

DOE Ph.D. student Zhanjun Bai (supervised by Prof. Ralph Mason) won an excellent student paper award and $100 bonus at the IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT) held in Shanghai, China from November 1st, 2010 to November 4th, 2010. Zhanjun'swork is the development of a novel 20 kHz frequency resolution Digitally Controlled Oscillator, which is the first DCO implementing capacitor delta tuning and Dynamic Element Matching (DEM) to suppress process variations and mismatches between small capacitor deltas.

Dr. Natalie Nakhla wins the NSERC Doctoral Prize

Dr. Natalie Nakhla has been awarded the prestigious NSERC Doctoral Prize for year 2010, in the recently concluded NSERC awards gala in Toronto . Dr. Nakhla has been selected for this prestigious award by a blue-ribbon panel, for her outstanding contributions to the field of Electronic Design Automation and her doctoral thesis titled, “Waveform Relaxation and Transverse Partitioning Algorithms for Simulation of Massively Coupled Interconnects”.Details of her contributions can be found in the NSERC website: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Doctoral-Doctorat/Profiles-Profils/NatalieNakhla_eng.asp

Dr. Nakhla carried her doctoral studies and research at the Department of Electronics Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Ramachandra Achar, at Carleton University .

About the NSERC Doctoral Prize:  Each year, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards “Doctoral Prizes” to recognize excellence in student research in the natural sciences and engineering. Over the years, these prestigious awards have honoured the achievements of Canada’s most promising scientists and engineers.  Only up to four such awards are given (2 in the natural sciences and 2 in the engineering/computer sciences)  based on a Canada-wide competition. Each recipient receives a framed certificate, a medal, $10,000 cash award and an invitation to an awards gala hosted by NSERC (more information can be found in the link: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/prizes/call_for_nomination_brochure_e.pdf

Remarkable Alumni Win Honourable Mention from NSERC

Carleton alumni Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim have added yet another honour to their growing list of awards. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced Monday that they received an honourable mention and $1,500 as part of the 2010 Innovation Challenge Awards.

Earlier this year, Arsalan and Shamim won the 2010 Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). In 2008, they also won the OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award, making them the only students to have received both awards.

Reference:

http://www2.carleton.ca/newsroom/info-brief/remarkable-alumni-win-honourable-mention-from-nserc/

Electronic PhD Student Ksenia Yadav Won Best Student Oral Presentation Award

Electronic PhD Student Ksenia Yadav has won the best student oral presentation award at the Optical Society of America Congress held in Karlsruhe(Germany) June 2010. The congress was attended by the world's top  researchers in Optics including two Nobel Prize Winners delivering plenary talks

Ksenia developed a novel technology to realize a high-speed electro-optic modulator using glass waveguides instead of crystals.  This work has the potential to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of the internet hardware infrastructure. In today's optical networks, the high speed modulators that allow multi-GHz internet connections are made of expensive crystals that are difficult to integrate with optical fibres. Silica glass would be an ideal material for this purpose -- it is the same material that is used to transmit optical signals in fibres, and it is both inexpensive and abundant in nature.  However, silica glass does not have the nonlinear optical properties required for the high-speed modulation of optical signals.

The novel solution that Ksenia presented for this problem involves the use of precisely-engineered, silica glass nanolayers to enable the creation of an artificial crystal within the glass. This idea has far-reaching scientific impact and important practical applications, the most prominent of which is the realization of a high-speed (multi-GHz), silica-based electro-optic modulator that is simple to fabricate, is very inexpensive and can be seamlessly integrated into existing optical fibre networks.

This work was carried out in the group of Professor Jacques Albert, who heads the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Photonics Components, in collaboration with the Communications Research Centre of Canada.  The recognition that this project received from the international optics community provides a vibrant example of the strength and relevance of the Photonics program at Carleton as well as of our capacity to integrate the latest advances in nanotechnologies towards important applications with a direct impact on everyday life.

DOE Student Peter Popplewell Wins Medal

Electronics student Peter Popplewell is the recipient of the 2010 University Medal for Outstanding Work at the Doctoral Level in the spring convocation of Carleton University held on June 10, 2010.  This prestigious award, the only one in its category in the convocation, is a recognition of his world-class research achievements.

Popplewell's innovative design, featuring integrated antennas on wireless circuits, sets a new milestone in the pursuit of reducing size and power consumption of wireless communication devices.  Under the supervision of Professors John Rogers and Calvin Plett, he developed a wireless transceiver with a size of only a few square mm, and which has low enough power consumption to enable operation using only the energy scavenged from the environment.  Using his work, biomedical sensors can be miniaturized and sensed information can be transmitted without wire and without battery. The technology has exciting potential applications, for example, in radiation therapy where sensors can be placed on cancer patients without causing blockage and deflection of radiation while the sensed information is wirelessly gathered by the radiation equipment to control the dose or location of treatment.

Peter's innovative work has won many awards, both locally such as the Ottawa-Carleton OCRI Researcher of the Year award, and internationally such as the IEEE Solid State Circuit Predoctoral Fellowship.  He has been invited to write a journal paper, a high recognition in the technical field normally given only to a select few. He is also part of a 2-person student team which won the Technology Venture Challenge, Eastern Ontario's most prestigious competition sponsored by the business community to encourage university students to act on their technology business ideas.

Carleton Alumni Wins National Award

Ibrahim Gedeon, who graduated from Carleton University with a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering, and now Chief Technology Officer of Telus, is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Canada Robert H. Tanner Industry Leadership Award for his leadership in advancing academic and industry joint advancement of technology.  The award was presented at the CCECE Awards Banquet in Calgary, Alberta on May 3, 2010.

Ibrahim Gedeon (Senior Member,IEEE) as the CTO, is responsible for technology strategy, service and network architecture, service delivery and operational support systems for TELUS Communications Inc. and TELUS Mobility. He is responsible for the Wireless-Wireline service and network convergence, enterprise applications and network infrastructure strategies and evolution.

Mr. Gedeon began his career in telecommunications engineering and research in 1990 when he joined Bell Northern Research. He moved to Nortel Networks in 1994 as a network design engineer, in 1996 he was named vice president and director of Data Network Engineering at Nortel, and vice president of Internet Brand Management in 1999. He was appointed senior vice president of Wireless Engineering in 2000 and led the global engineering team responsible for operations, sales support, and systems engineering.

Mr. Gedeon has held numerous leadership roles with the IEEE and has received several professional awards and industry recognition. These honours include being named to Global Telecoms Business magazine’s GTB Power 100, a list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the telecoms industry, as well as receipt of IEEE Canada’s Outstanding Engineer Award. Ibrahim is currently the  General Chair for the IEEE ICC 2012 Conference in Ottawa and currently serves on the board or council of other industry associations such as ATIS, Industry Canada’s Communications Research Centre, and CASA Foundation. Ibrahim has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Masters in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University.

Reference:

http://ieee.ca/awards/may10/booklet10.pdf

DoE Graduate Student Ashok Narayanan wins the Best Student Paper Award

DoE graduate student, Ashok Narayanan won the Best Student Paper Award in the just concluded "IEEE Asia‐Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility", held in Bejing, China, for his paper, "Fast EMI Analysis of Massively Coupled Interconnects with Long Delay".

Carleton Alumni Win 2010 OCRI Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Carleton alumni, Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim, won the Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) last evening.

In 2008, they also won the OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award, making them the only students to have won both awards.

Reference:

http://www2.carleton.ca/newsroom/news-releases/carleton-alumni-win-2010-ocri-student-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award/

Professor Achar Elected General Co-Chair of EPEPS 2011-2012

Professor Ram Achar has been elected by the EPEPS TPC (www.epeps.org) to serve as the General Co-Chair for two years; 2010-11 EPEPS at Austin, USA and 2011-12 EPEPS at San Jose USA. EPEPS is the premier IEEE International Conference on advanced and emerging issues in electrical modeling, analysis and design of electronic interconnections, packages and systems. This is a strong recognition for our department in providing quality research and leadership in IEEE as well as in international forums.

DoE Student wins Co-Op Student of the Year

Simon Mack, a second-year electrical engineering student, is the 2009 recipient of the Carleton University Co-op Student of the Year Award.

Read more

http://carletonnow.ca/2010-3/2459.htm

http://www2.carleton.ca/newsroom/news-releases/carleton-selects-co-op-student-of-the-year/

Two Professors Win Awards for Excellence in Research

Two professors from the Department of Electronics are winners of the 2010 Research Achievement Award of Carleton University.   This is a strong recognition of the research excellence in the Department of Electronics, considering that only 10 such awards are given in the entire university,

Professor Ram Achar is awarded the Research Achievement Award for his work on "Advanced Algorithms for Power Integrity Analysis in High-Speed Designs".

Professor Q.J. Zhang is awarded the Research Achievement Award for his work on "Knowledge based Neural Networks for Modeling High-Frequency Electronic Components and Systems".

Congratulations, Ram and QJ.

Kibru Goshu wins Ed Ireland Award for Engineering

Kibru Goshu who is supervised by Professor Ye, won the Ed Ireland's Award for his research work on silicon-based optical sensors.

The Ed Ireland Award for Engineering is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Electronics, to deserving students in the Faculty of Engineering doing research work in the area of silicon-based optical sensors.

Prof. QJ Zhang Wins NSERC Strategic Project Grant

Prof. Q.J. Zhang has been successful in the latest NSERC Strategic Project Grant competition. His proposal, entitled "Knowledge based modeling and optimization technology towards multi-disciplinary design of high-frequency components and communication subsystems" was awarded $128,700 per year for three years.

NSERC funding for DOE Professors

Today NSERC announced major funding for a new Strategic Network in Photovoltaic Innovation.  Profs. S. McGarry and N.G. Tarr will be participants in this Network, carrying out research on hybrid organic/silicon solar cells.

http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsRelease-CommuniqueDePresse_eng.asp?ID=173

Dr. Peng Zhang Joins the Department of Electronics Faculty.

Welcome to our new faculty member, Professor Peng Zhang joined the Department of Electronics as an Assistant Professor in January 2009.   He received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver in 2009. He also holds a Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and obtained the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering both from Shandong University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.   Prior to joining Carleton, he was a System Planning Engineer at BC Transmission Corporation, Vancouver, where he worked on grid integration of renewable energy resources, real-time operation & power system planning. He is the engineer who planned British Columbia’s first wind farm Bear Mountain wind project.  Dr. Peng Zhang will be a key faculty member in our new program on Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering.

Welcome, Peng.

The Department's Microfabrication Facility recieves new Funding

The Ontario government today announced $3.6M in funding for Group IV Semiconductor Ltd., an Ottawa area start-up company dedicated to producing highly efficient environmentally friendly light emitting devices based on silicon (see www.groupivsemi.com).  Part of this funding will be used to enhance the capability of Carleton's Microfabrication Facility, which Group IV uses in its research.  This investment will be of long-term benefit to all researchers using the Microfab.  For more information, see http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/IDF012510.asp

New chip off the silicon block

"The first monolithically-grown chips that combine gallium nitride and CMOS devices on a silicon substrate have been demonstrated by collaborating researchers at the National Research Council of Canada and Carleton University. The team partnered with the world expert in GaN growth on silicon substrates, Fabrice Semond from CNRS-CHREA in France, to integrate AlGaN/GaN HFETs with silicon MOSFETs on a silicon substrate using a technique that can be easily scaled up for mass production."

http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/eletters/4603/new-chip.cfm

Professor Jacques Albert Wins NSERC CRD Grant

Professor Jacques Albert has won an NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grant. The project is titled “Pressure-Temperature sensors for downhole oil and gas application” with industry partner LxDATA. The NSERC award is for a total value of $121,500 over three years starting October 2009.

DOE Student Humayun Kabir Wins Senate Medal

Humayun Kabir, a graduate student of the Department of Electronics, has won a Senate Medal from Carleton University for outstanding academic achievement at the PhD level.  His PhD thesis is "Advanced Neural Network Modeling Techniques for Efficient CAD of Microwave Filters", under the supervision of Prof. Q.J. Zhang and Adjunct Professor Ming Yu (Com Dev Ltd).   Humayun will receive the medal during the Fall-2009 convocation on November 14, 2009.

Dr. Winnie Ye Joins the Department of Electronics Faculty.

Welcome to our new faculty member, Professor Winnie Ye. Dr. Ye joined the Department of Electronics as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.She is an Canada Research Chair in Nano scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-electronics and Sensors.She received her undergraduate degree from Carleton University. She then attended the University of Toronto, receiving an M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her PhD is from Carleton University and the National Research Council Canada (NRC). After receiving her Ph.D. degree, she joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, working on optoelectronic integration. She later worked at Harvard University on innovative nano-fabrication technologies for CMOS image sensors. Her research interests include silicon photonics, optoelectronic biosensors, and solar cells. Dr. Ye brings to our department valuable expertise in the fields of micro- and nano-photonics, in theoretical device physics level and fabrication aspects.

Her office, phone and email information are: 3174 MC, ext. 8395, winnie_ye@carleton.ca. Dr. Ye also has several openings for prospective graduate and undergraduate students (further details can be found on her home page ) and the students are requested to contact her directly.

Exchange Student wins Best Project Award

Francois Gorlier won the best project award of all the graduating Engineering students in the Telecom area at his home institution, the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium.  Francois spent 4 months in Prof. J. Albert's research group this winter, thanks to a Belgian scholarship, to carry out his final year engineering project on the topic of Carbon dioxide gas fiber optic sensor.  He did a splendid job and some of the results he achieved will be presented at the next Optical Fiber Sensors conference in Glasgow, Scotland, October 2009.

National Winners - Carleton's VSM Technologies

Electronics Ph.D. students Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim continue to amaze us with their outstanding accomplishments.

Partnering with two Carleton undergraduate students Sumaira Haque (Arts) and Anum Faizan (Computer Science), they took 1st prize among the 12 national finalist teams at the Enterprize Canada Entrepreneurial Championship held in Februrary 2009 in Vancouver.  Their winning "VSM Technologies" business plan, which is based on a wireless medical patch device, has just earned them $20,000 and other in-kind services.

The team was found to best exemplify the true qualities of an entrepreneur: ambition, resiliency, and vision.  They will get a chance to present their business plan on CBC’s “Dragons Den”.  More information will be available at http://www.enterprizecanada.org .

Please join me in congratulating Muhammad and Atif and their team on their shining success.

Best Student Paper Award - Reza Yousefi

Congratulations to Reza on placing 2nd in the student paper competition at IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 2009, held last week in San Diego.  His paper is entitled "An Energy-Efficient Transceiver Architecture for Short Range Wireless Sensor Applications" and is co-authored by Prof. R. Mason.

Prof. Jacques Albert receives Carleton University Research Achievement Award

Prof. Jacques Albert,  received a 2009 Carleton University Research Achievement Award (RAA) for his work in fiber lasers and photonic sensors. He is one of only ten faculty members across the university  (and three in Engineering and Design) to be recognized this way for outstanding research. The award is valued at $15,000.

Scientific Popularization Contest - Ksenia Yadav

Congratulations to Ksenia on taking 1st place in the Canada-wide 2008 CIPI Scientific Popularization Contest for her paper entitled "Laser Technologies Leave Cancer No Place to Hide". Her article appears in the current (Autumn 2008) issue of Photons Magazine and she received a $1000 cash prize. More details are at http://www.cipi.ulaval.ca/

Entrepreneurial Championship - Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim

Muhammad and Atif, partnering with two Carleton undergraduate students Sumaira Haque and Anum Faizan, captured 1st prize among ten selected teams at the Enterprize Canada Entrepreneurial Championship (Central Region) held last weekend at the University of Guelph. Their winning "VSM Technologies" business plan, which earned them $3000, is based on a wireless medical patch device. The top three teams from each region of Canada (Atlantic, Central, Quebec, Western) will face off at the National Enterprize Canada Championship in Vancouver, February 6-7. Well done guys, and good luck! More information at http://www.enterprizecanada.org

ELEC4906 Special Topics Course: Thermal Management of Electronics. Winter 2009

In the Winter 2009 term this year a Special Topics course, ELEC 4906F, will be Thermal Management of Electronics. This course is being offered jointly with the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. A preliminary course outline can be found here.

Atif Shamim wins EuWiT Best Paper Award

Yesterday Electronics Ph.D. student Atif Shamim won the overall Best Paper Award at the European Wireless Technology Conference (EuWiT 2008), which is a top international conference held during European Microwave Week in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The winning paper "Wireless Interconnect Between On-Chip and LTCC Antennas for System-in-Package Applications" is co-authored by M. Arsalan and Prof. L. Roy. The judges' citation mentions "excellent integration of system design, material sciences and EM/antenna design" and "highly relevant, with large potential for commercialization". The award comes with a several-thousand dollar cash prize and other perks. Once again, well done Atif!

Lei Zhang wins Senate Medal

Congratulations to graduating DOE student Lei Zhang who will receive a Senate Medal for outstanding work at the doctoral level at the upcoming November convocation. Her thesis, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Q.J. Zhang and defended on September 8, is entitled "Neuro-Space Mapping Technique for Microwave Device Modeling and Its Use in Circuit Simulation and Statistical Design".

Prof. Q.J. Zhang Keynote Speaker

Professor Q.J. Zhang continues to be in demand on the international stage. He is an invited keynote speaker in the plenary session of the International Symposium on Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, to be held in Kunming, China, November 2-6, 2008. His presentation will cover "Advances in modeling and optimization techniques for microwave design".

Ryan Griffin wins bronze leaf best paper award

At the 1st Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference (MNRC 2008) held at the Ottawa Crowne Plaza Hotel, October 15 2008. Ryan Griffin won a bronze leaf best paper award for the paper."αRAM: An α Particle Detecting MOS IC for Radon Monitoring" co-authored by H. Le, D. Jack, A. Kochermin and G. Tarr.

IEEE Student Branch Recognized

Congratulations to Carleton's IEEE on having recently won the 2007-2008 George Armitage Outstanding Student Branch award for the most active student branch in Canada. This is one of the proudest accomplishments for the organization, attesting to its vibrance and success in terms of student-run events. The branch has Professor Calvin Plett as its faculty advisor. More details can be found at IEEE Carleton Branch.pdf.

Profs Achar and Nakhla Co-Authors of Best IEEE Transactions Paper

Department of Electronics Professors Michel Nakhla and Ramachandra Achar have won the coveted Best Transactions Paper Award published in IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, for their paper "Stability, Causality and Passivity in Electrical Interconnect Models" by Piero Triverio, Stefano Grivet-Talocia, Michel S. Nakhla, Flavio G. Canavero, and Ramachandra Achar (Vol 30, No 4, November 2007).

This paper was selected from among nearly 100 manuscripts published in 2007. The work, which addresses fundamental issues in modeling and simulation of modern high-frequency, large scale and high-density ICs, was done in collaboration with a leading research group on CAD at Politecnico di Torino (PdT), Italy. As a part of this collaboration, graduate student Piero Triverio conducted two internships at Carleton in 2005 and 2007.

Electronic's Student Jenna Wiens Wins Governor General's Medal

Electrical Engineering student Jenna Wiens has been awarded a Governor General's Medal, Carleton University's most prestigious academic prize. The award is given to the two undergraduate students with the highest overall grade point averages (GPA).

Atif Shamim and Muhammad Arsalan come second in Nicol Launch Pad $50K

Having just won an OCRI award on Thursday evening, Atif and Arslan placed 2nd on Friday (out of 33 finalists from across Ontario) at the "Nicol Launchpad Business Plan" provincial competition in Waterloo, again for their work on a wireless medical patch. They come home with an impressive $15,000 in prize money and a spot in the "Wes Nicol Entrepreneurial Award" national competition to be held on May 5/6.

Atif Shamim and Muhammad Arsalan Win OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award

Congratulations to Atif and Arsalan who this evening won the OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award at the annual OCRI awards gala. This is Carleton's fifth consecutive win in this category. For the first time, the top prize was jointly awarded with another student researcher from Ottawa U.

The OCRI awards honour individuals and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the Ottawa region. The awards celebrate excellence in research, technology, entrepreneurship, partnership development, community leadership, business journalism and student accomplishment.

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NSERC grant for Prof, Zhang and Prof. Nakhla

Professor Qi-Jun Zhang and Professor Michel Nakhla have been awarded a $58k NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grant for "Computation platforms for modeling and optimization of high-frequency/high-speed components and systems in communication networks". This is in addition to their earlier NSERC Strategic Project grant (with co-applicants Prof. Gunupudi and Prof. Achar) of $148k/year for three years.

Students Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim win 2008 Wes Nicol Business Plan Competition

Winning Teams for 4th Year Design Project Competition

March 14, 2008

1st place:

Project: Pulse Oximeter
Speaker for the Presentation, Phong

1. Phong Nguyen
2. Luz Osorio Cuadros

(Supervisor Niall Tait)

2nd Place:

Project: Autonomous Robot
Speakers for the Presentation: Jason, and Adam

1. Adam Klein
2. Jason Mcnicol

(Supervisor: Tom Ray)

3rd Place:

Project: Wireless Secure Fencing Link
Speaker for the Presentation: Wael

(Supervisor: Gauthier)

Runner-up:

Project: Design of an RFID Tag System
Speakers for the Presentation: Nathan, and Leah

1. Nathan Jess
2. Leah Chaudhari
3. Bradley Macculloch
4. Michael Brennick
5. Ali Hussain
6. Mathanaruby Kandasamy
7. Omar Mankal

(Supervisors: Syrett/Roy)


Congratulations to all the winners.

DOE student win's Best Poster Award

At the SPIE Symposium on Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology in Canberra, Australia (Dec 4-7, 2007) the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network (ARCNN) presented Carleton (Electronics) Ph.D. student Kuan Pei Yap with a certificate and small cash prize for being a winner in the best poster category. The poster was entitled "Process Development of Integrated SOI Star Couplers for Waveguide Scattering Loss Measurement" (K.P.Yap, J. Lapointe, B. Lamontagne, A. Delage, S. Janz, B. Syrett).

Doe students win ITAC Strategic Microelectronics Council Industrial Collaboration Award

In Memoriam - D. Walkey

The Department is sad to announce the sudden passing away of Dr. David Walkey, a Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, on August 22, 2007. Dr. Walkey received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1987 and joined Carleton University in 1988, after serving as a Member of Scientific Staff at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa. His research interests were in thermal and electrical modeling of high speed integrated electronic devices.

Professor Walkey had a solid record of teaching, research and graduate student supervision. He taught courses from second year to graduate level, in the areas of device physics and modeling, circuit design and integrated circuit processing. Dr. Walkey published over 50 papers on device modeling and simulation, and was a Senior Member of the IEEE as well as a Professional Engineer. The high regard for his papers led to, among other distinctions, his appointment as the 2005 Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Walkey also supervised 14 graduate students during his career at Carleton.

Professor Walkey has made enormous contributions to the Department of Electronics. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Associate Chair, Graduate Studies; and from 2002 to 2005, he was the Department's Associate Chair, Undergraduate. He was also active in several departmental committees. In all these roles, Dr. Walkey demonstrated an outstanding level of dedication and skill.

He is survived by his son Carl Walkey.

Two DOE professors take on major FED administrative roles...

Profs. Alan Steele and Garry Tarr are in the news again: Steele (2007 TAA recipient) will run the new First Year Office of the Faculty of Engineering and Design, while Tarr (2007 RAA recipient) becomes the Faculty's Associate Dean (Research).

The 1st Year Office is responsible for overseeing and improving the first year undergraduate experience. The Associate Dean (Research) has an increasingly important mandate as the University pursues strategic expansion of its research activity.

These appointments underscore the qualities residing within the Department to assume leadership in key affairs of the Faculty.

Carleton Student Team Wins Prestigious Technology Venture Challenge Competition

A team of Carleton University graduate students have won the 2007 Technology Venture Challenge competition. Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Peter Popplewell and Victor Karam on their innovative research in the field of low power RF transceivers. The Technology Venture Challenge is Ottawa’s premiere competition aimed at encouraging technological innovation and entrepreneurship.

News Articles on the Technology Venture Challenge Award:

CBC

Ottawa Business Journal

National Capital Scan

Natalie Nakhla wins IBM Fellowship Award

Natalie Nakhla, Ph.D. student of DOE, won the IBM Fellowship award of US$24,000 for the year 2006-2007. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship program honors exceptional Ph.D. students, worldwide. Competition for this year's Fellowship awards was extremely intense. IBM received several hundred nominations worldwide and after careful deliberation on all the candidates and their credentials, the winners were announced. Ms. Nakhla worked very closely with the IBM T. J Watson research center, NY, which resulted in 2 IEEE transaction papers and several IEEE international conference papers. Ms Nakhla is also the recipient of the best student paper awards in EPEP-2004 and EPEP-2003 (IEEE Conf. on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging).

Peter Popplewell wins the OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award

Last night Peter Popplewell, student of DOE won the OCRI Student Researcher of the Year Award at the annual OCRI awards gala.

http://www.ocri.ca/email_broadcasts/newsreleases/040407news_e.html

"The recipients of tonight’s awards stand as an example of the talent and strength that are the backbone of Ottawa's knowledge-based community," said Jeffrey Dale, OCRI’s President and CEO. "We continue to see the award applicant pool grow in quality and quantity, enabling us to present an outstanding roster of first-rate businesses and executives that offer outstanding value to the community and demonstrate true dynamism, vision and innovation in their sectors.”

The OCRI awards honour individuals and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the Ottawa region. The awards celebrate excellence in research, technology, entrepreneurship, partnership development, community leadership, business journalism and student accomplishment.

Winners of IEEE competition for the ELEC4706

Ehsan, and Vincent won the IEEE competition for ELEC4706 seen standing below with Professor Mason and Professor Goubran.


The IEEE competition for ELEC4706 projects was held on Wednesday April 4. The goal of the competition was to demonstrate ELEC4706 design projects that familiarize students with different phases of a complex digital design project. During the course their projects, students completed different phases of a real design project from definition to final hardware implementation and prepared a final engineering report. Different phases of the projects included:

• Architectural studies: top-level architecture, external interfaces, design hierarchy and micro-architecture of sub-blocks.
• RTL implementation and behavioral modeling (if required).
• Verification (implementation of verification environment and test benches, writing test cases)
• Synthesis
• Mapping (fitting) to FPGA
• Timing verification
• Implementing in Hardware
• Hardware testing

DOE students win second place in Wes Nicol Business Competition

Prof. Alan Steele wins Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award

Prof. Garry Tarr receives Carleton University Research Achievement Award

Prof. Jacques Albert awarded NSERC Special Research Opportunity Grant

Prof. Jacques Albert, for obtaining a $187,000 NSERC Special Research Opportunity Grant for his breakthrough discovery on "Photosensitivity in phosphate glasses". The work, which will enable compact fiber lasers, was featured as a research highlight in the December issue of Photonics Spectra. See http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2006/December/research/85308.aspx

Doe Christmas Pictures

You can view the pictures here.

Carleton University Student Samina Hashmi Voted One of Canada's Most Powerful Women

"Today at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Carleton Engineering student, Samina Hashmi, was voted one of Canada’s most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network. WXN is Canada's leading organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of executive-minded women in the workplace."

Read the rest here http://www.carleton.ca/duc/newsroom/newsreleases/Nov_21.html

Additional 4th Year course offering in the Winter term: ELEC 4706

D. Paul wins best student paper award

DoE Ph. D. student Douglas Paul won the IBM Best Student Paper Award in the recently concluded IEEE International Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packages (EPEP-2006) for the paper:

1. Paul, M. Nakhla, R. Achar and A. Weisshaar, "A Passive Algorithm for Modeling Frequency-Dependent Parameters of Coupled Interconnects", EPEP-2006, Scottsdale, AZ, pp. 185-188, Oct. 2006.

The award comes with a IBM Thinkpad laptop and a Plaque. The project is a joint research collaboration between the CAE research group at Carleton and Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Carleton's CAE group has won the best student paper award at EPEP five times during the last six years, a unique feat.

EPEP is a premier single track conference focused on the high-speed VLSI design issues, signal integrity, interconnects and electrical packages, attended by leading international academic institutions and industries (such as INTEL, IBM, SUN, Cadence, Ansoft, Georgia Tech, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington at Seattle, North Carolina State University, etc.)

Congratulations to Dharmendra Saraswat

Invited Talk - Prof. R. Achar

Prof. Ram Achar was recently invited to deliver a talk on "Disruptive Technologies in the EDA for the Next Five Years", in the recent IEEE Computer-Aided Network DEsign Committee (CANDE)-2006 Meeting, held in Whistler, BC. CANDE is one of the oldest and premier IEEE meetings and is the parent conference for several premier IEEE conferences, including International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Prof. Achar is also the current chair of the ICCAD technical committee on circuit simulation and interconnects.

Strategic Research Achievement - Prof. QJ Zhang

DOE student wins 2006-2007 IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

Department of Electronics doctoral student Peter Popplewell has just been announced as a winner of the 2006-2007 IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. This is a very prestigious award for which there have been no more than two winners each year in a worldwide competition. Peter will formally receive the award at the plenary session of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Solid-State Circuits to be held in San Francisco next February. To be eligible for this award, applicants must have completed at least one year of graduate study, be in a Ph.D. program in the area of solid-state circuits, and be a member of IEEE. The award is made on the basis of academic record and promise, graduate study program, and need. Since 1983-1984 when this award was first offered, this fellowship has been won three times by Doctoral students from the Department of Electronics at Carleton University. Only one other university in the world has matched or exceeded this record. A list of past recipients can be found at:

http://sscs.org/awards/predoctoral.htm

Prof. Calvin Plett Selected as 2006 IEEE Outstanding Counselor Award Winner

"Calvin Plett, Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, has been awarded the 2006 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor Award. The award aims to recognize the efforts of Branch Counselors whose dedication and efforts exemplify the IEEE's commitment to educational, personal, professional and technical developments of students.

The award is presented annually and carries a monetary prize and personalized certificate. There were seven recipients of the award worldwide."

For more information see: http://www.carleton.ca/duc/newsroom/newsreleases/june_2.html