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 | Carleton’s Tony Bailetti was presented with the 2011 Ottawa Innovation Community award from the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) on Thursday, May 5. The award recognizes his multiple achievements, which include programs like TIM, Lead to Win, Talent First, and projects like Coral CEA, Open Source Business Resource, Big Blue Button and uncountable others. More... |
Best Paper Awards
Profs. R. Yu, H. Tang, and their student R. Ramamoorthy won the Outstanding Contribution award at IEEE/IFIP Trustcom'10. Prof. G. Wainer and his student M. Moallemi won the Best Paper Award at the Symposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation 2011. Further information here.
Congratulations!
Great TAs
We are pleased to announce the recipients of SCE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award 2010/2011. The recipients are Yaser Eftekhari, Wang Xiang and Sina Tolouei.
Congratulations!
Software Engineering: Best Rated Job in 2011
According to careertrack.com the best rated job in 2011 is Software Engineer. 200 professions across various industries, skill levels, and salaries have been surveyed to calculate the ranking which is determined by taking the work environment, physical demands, outlook, income and stress into account. Computer Systems Analysts ranked at 5th position, and software programmers at 27th position.
Software Engineering and Carleton: Top 5 in Canada
Science Watch has ranked Software Engineering at Carleton as the Top 5 institution in Canada, based on the average citations per paper (source: Science Watch - Citation Index). Further information here
A legend in the local Tech community
| Carleton’s Tony Bailetti will be presented with the 2011 Ottawa Innovation Community award from the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) on Thursday, May 5. The award recognizes his multiple achievements, which include programs like TIM, Lead to Win, Talent First, and projects like Coral CEA, Open Source Business Resource, Big Blue Button and uncountable others. More... |
Outstanding Professional Contribution Award
| Prof. Wainer wins the Outstanding Professional Contribution Award given by SCS for his work in real-time simulation and applications. |  |
Support for Relief in Japan
Carleton is coordinating various efforts to support the recent events in Japan. Check here for further information. For donations, check here.
The Best Software Engineering Department in Canada
A recent research study published in the Computer and Information Science journal shows that Carleton's SCE department is the top-ranked institution in Canada. Profs. Labiche, Briand, Petriu, Woodside are in the list of top-ranked researchers. Read further information about the study here.
Prof. Schramm wins Teaching Award
Prof. Cheryl Schramm is one of the five winners of Carleton's Teaching Achievement Awards. Further information can be found here.
Congratulations!
| The newly inaugurated Canal Building will host students and Faculty from SCE, in particular the new M.A.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering. Further details can be found here. |  |
Best Job? Software Engineer!
CareerCast has published their annual list of Best and Worst jobs. Software Engineering is on top of the list. Read the article at The Wall Street Journal or the Ottawa Citizen article online.
Growth in the High Tech sector
Read the following article published by the IEEE Computer Society about the upcoming trends in the Tech field. According to the firm IDC, there will be an increase in worldwide IT spending, focusing on Cloud computing, Social networking, Mobile Computing and other topics in Systems and Computer Engineering.
Software Engineering? Good career choice!
| According to Businessweek, there is a growing need for Software Engineers, and the trend will continue in the upcoming years. Read the article here . |  |
Unique Mentors
Profs. Kunz and Yanikomeroglu have won the inaugural Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards. These awards were established to recognize up to ten faculty members annually who have made outstanding contributions to the supervision and research mentorship of graduate students. They have been chosen for their demonstrated ability to render exceptional mentoring services and for supporting and fostering transformational effects on the careers of their graduate students. Congratulations!
| Prof. Monique Frize has won the 2010 Ontario Professional Engineers Gold Medal. Presented since 1947, the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards recognize outstanding individuals. The Gold Medal is the profession’s premiere award. It recognizes commitment to public service, technical excellence and outstanding professional leadership. The official announcement can be found here. Read more information here. Many Congratulations! |  |
IEEE Award
Carleton's IEEE Student Branch has obtained the 3rd place (worldwide) in the IEEE MGA Website competition 2010. Check the results here, and visit the Student Branch website here. Congratulations to all!
SCE Alumnus on High Tech Startups
Charles Chi, an SCE graduate, presented his views High Tech Startups during his presentation on "Raising Venture Capital for Technology Start-Ups". Read the Ottawa Citizen article here.
Women in Engineering
Carleton's IEEE Women in Engineering group received the Annual International WIE 2009 Student Branch Affinity Group of the Year award. Read the news release here. You can find information about WIE's website here.
Prof. Goubran participates in National Seniors Day
| Dean Rafik Goubran will present the results of an experiment where talking technology was introduced on a fridge, in order to help Seniors to keep independence. Further information can be found here |  |
Best Video Award
Michael Floyd, a Ph.D student in our department, and Prof. Babak Esfandiari have won the Best Video Award at the 2010 AAAI Video Competition. You can watch the video here
More on Apps course
The summer course on introduction to iPhone programming for beginners has been extremely successful (read The Charlatan story here. The goal of the course is to provide the initial background and motivation for more experimentation on applications development for the iPhone Further information here.
In Memoriam
It is with sadness that we announce that Judy Bowman has lost her battle with cancer. After 14 months of struggle, in her 52nd year, Judy said a final goodbye with her family and close friends at her side. Judy was the loving wife of Jim, a super mom to Deanna and Sam, sister to Monica, and daughter and friend of her mom, Jeanette. Judy will be sadly missed her many friends in her community, loving relatives, and co-workers at Carleton U. Judy worked in both the undergraduate and graduate assistant roles in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering for 5 years before moving to the Graduate Studies and Research Office. She will be missed within her community of friends and colleagues at Carleton University. If friends wish to donate in memoriam, please address this to the Ottawa Hospital Foundation, specifically directed to 5 East Medical Oncology Memorial Fund - #200872. This will support the continuing education of a fantastic group of nurses, doctors, and support staff.
Prof. Adler reports on Testing Tasers
Prof. Andy Adler has authored a new report containing recommendations for testing Tasers and other conducted energy weapons (CEWs) Further information here. Read the article at CBC news here. Listen to the interview at Ottawa Morning here.
Multiple Honours for Prof. Frize
| Prof. Monique Frize is now a Distinguished University Professor at Carleton University. She also was recently awarded a Fellowship from Engineering Canada. Her book "The Bold and the Brave: A history of women in science and engineering" is now in second print. | |
Carleton Professor Ranked as 8th Top “Simulation” Author by Microsoft Academic Search
 | Microsoft Academic Search has ranked Carleton Engineering Professor Gabriel A. Wainer as the 4th top author in simulation in the world over the last 10 years. More... |
Dorina Petriu appointed to the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Prof. Dorina Petriu has been inducted as a new Fellow into the Canadian Academy of Engineering for her numerous contributions to Software Engineering. The ceremony took place in Toronto, in conjunction with the Academy’s 2010 Annual General Meeting. Further information can be found here, and the official release can be read here.
Many congratulations!
University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work
Emil Janulewicz was awarded University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Master’s Level. Emil's research, carried out under the supervision of Prof. Banihashemi, focused on Performance Analysis of Iterative Decoding Algorithms with Memory. Congratulations!
OCRI Award for Software Engineering student
Martin Cayouette, a Software Engineering student, is a winner of the Ottawa Innovation Callenge 2010. His team developed a mobile phone marketing application for Wedding Republic, a local company that provided the problem to solve. Congratulations! |  |
SCE Alumna to be presented with A.D. Dunton Award.
 | Dr. Shona Brown, Senior Vice President (Business Operations) of Google Inc. will be presented with the A. D. Dunton Award recognizing her numerous achievements(further information about the event can be found here). |
Research Grants for SCE Professor
Prof. Banihashemi has received an NSERC-RTI grant ($80,804) for prototyping high-speed coding schemes. He also received an NSERC-CRD Grant ($198,000) to perform research on high-performance coding schemes (in collaboration with SiliconPro Inc.). Many Congratulations!
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Hussein Zubaidy (who recently defended his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Lambadaris) obtained an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship (one of the 280 scholarships awarded for recent graduates in Canada).
Congratulations!
4th Year Project Team makes it to the Finals of TVC!
Emil Mitev, Mark Wakim, Tomas Dej and Felipe Ferreira are finalists in the Technology Venture Challenge. Their project produced an automated solution for the remote control of electronic devices in a home.
Congratulations!
International Awards
- During SpringSim 2010, Prof. G. Wainer has been declared a winner of the the First DEVS Modeling and Simulation award, which recognizes high-impact innovations in modeling and simulation methods, applications, and tools. Also, his Paper “Advanced IDE for Modeling and Simulation of Discrete Event Systems” with M. Bonaventura and R. Castro) was the runner-up Best Paper Award of 350 submissions for the conference.
TA Awards
We are pleased to announce the two recipients of the SCE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for the 2009/2010 academic year. The recipients are Daanish Khan and Kaluarachchige (Chamira) Perera.
Congratulations!
2010 GSA Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching
Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu is one of the winners of the 2010 GSA Honour Award.
Congratulations!
SCE 4th Year Project Poster Fair and Awards Reception
The SCE 4th year poster fair will be held on Friday March 19th from 10:30-1:30. Come on out and see the culmination of 4 years of engineering (5th floor of Minto Centre). Topics range from robotics to biomedical devices to software engineering.
The fair ends with a reception in 5050MC at 1:30pm to announce the winners of the Best Poster awards!
SCE students' software controls new UAV
SCE students participated on the recently Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed on campus (read further information here). This is an interdisciplinary project at both the undergraduate (led by Dr. Jeremy
Laliberté - Mech & Aero) and the graduate levels (led by Dr. Paul Straznicky Mech & Aero). Numerous SCE undergraduate students have participated (including three Software Engineering students in the 2009/2010 academic year). Several SCE faculty supervised graduate students in the project: Dr. Trevor Pearce (Autonomous Operation), Dr. Anthony Whitehead (Obstacle Detection) and Dr. Rafik Goubran (Obstacle Detection).
Congratulations!
Entrepreneurial Awards for Innovative SCE students
Filip Mares (CSE) and Apurva Saini (SE) have obtained the Second Place in the 2010 Carleton University Nicol Entrepreneurial Awards. Their 4th Year project, SynapSync, is a web-based customer relationship management solution for small business that incorporates social media. Further information can be found here.
Congratulations!
Carleton Students win IBM Case Study competition
Various SCE students (both undergraduate and graduate) have participated in the IBM Case Study Competition, and won various awards. Further information can be found here ( see some pictures here, and details about the competition here.
Darlene Hebert wins Carleton Service Excellence Awards
This award is given to staff and faculty providing Service Excellence to students, faculty, staff and the community. Darlene won awards in the Individual category, and as part of a team in the Process Improvement category. Further information here. Congratulations Darlene!
Exceptional Contributions
Prof. David Coll is now a a Fellow of Engineers Canada (FEC) "in honour of exceptional contributions to the engineering profession in Canada". Engineers Canada (formerly the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers) is the Canadian organization coordinating all the provincial professional engineering bodies.
Congratulations!
Carleton IEEE Student Branch wins Award
Carleton's IEEE Student Branch has won second place in the international IEEE Student Web Site Contest. Congratulations to all in the student branch for doing such a great job! (access the student branch webpage here).
Research Grant for Prof. Majumdar
Prof. Majumdar has been awarded a new collaborative research grant by OCE and Cistel, for researching on Middleware for Sensor-Based Bridge Infrastructure Management. The grant, shared with Profs. D. Lau and B. Nandy, is providing $343,000 for the next three years.
Carleton's Smart Room Project
Read about the TAFETA project, lead by Dean Goubran here. The technology developed will help seniors to stay independent.
New book by Prof. Frize
Prof. Monique Frize has written a new book, "The Bold and the Brave", about the history of Women in Science and Engineering. Read the article (which also shows covers the work of some of our students) here. You can find information about Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering (CU-WISE) here .
Yet Another Prestigious Award for Prof. Falconer
 | Prof. David Falconer has been awarded IEEE Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications. Further information about the award can be found here. |
Outstanding Students
SCE students obtained various University Medals:
- Rhys Goldstein (supervised by Prof. Wainer) obtained the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work - Master's Level.
- Sidney Givigi (supervised by Prof. Schwartz) obtained the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Doctoral level).
- Alan Davoust (supervised by Prof. Esfandiari)obtained the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Masters level)
Further information here.
Congratulations!
hSITE Strategic Research Network
 | Dean Rafik Goubran, together with Prof. Dorina Petriu, Prof. Peter Liu and Dr. Frank Knoefel will lead a special project to investigate how sensors and computer software can enhance the health care of Canadians. Six other universities are involved as well as several clinical and industry partners. Further information can be found here. |
Coral CEA - Amazing Innovation
| The Ontario Government announced today it will provide up to $9.3 million to Coral CEA (lead by Prof. Bailetti) to help companies develop and market Communications Enabled Applications. The project totals $44 million of funding to create the next wave of innovation in communications and information technology. Further information can be found here. Read the Ottawa Citizen's news here and the watch the TV news release here. |  |
Best Paper Award
Prof. Richard Yu, Dr. Helen Tang (DRDC-Ottawa) and their MASc. student Fei Wang won the best paper award at IEEE/IFIP Trustcom'09 - The 2009 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trusted Computing and Communications, Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009.
Congratulations!
Carleton's IEEE Student branch wins award
Carleton's Engineering Society has obtained the 1st place in the IEEE Canada Student Branch Web-design contest and will be competing worldwide soon. Further information in the IEEE website.
Close to $1 million raised for Lead to Win startups
Prof. Bailetti's Lead to Win program raises close to $1 million. Read all news clippings here. Read the news at the Ottawa Citizen here.
BRILLIANT SCE STUDENTS
Matthew Bisson and Patrick Lalonde (SCE Students, Software Engineering) have been chosen by IBM for their prestigious internship program. They have been chosen between 563 applicants to participate in IBM's Extreme Blue program. Further information can be found here. Congratulations!
Lead to Win
Prof. Bailetti's Lead to Win program is driving innovation agenda in the Ottawa region helping retain technology talent in the region and help the economy grow. Read all news clippings here. News release here. See the media coverage in Global News
Research Grant for Profs. Adler and Chan
Profs. A. Adler and A. Chan obtained a 3 year CHRP grant. The project aims to improve the stability and accuracy of Electrical Impedance Tomography over prolonged periods of time (hours to days), in the continuous monitoring of mechanically ventilated patients of any age.
Congratulations!
Senate Medal for Ilia G. Polouchine
SCE student Ilia G. Polouchine (supervised by Profs. Liu and Lung) has obtained the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Doctoral level). Further information here. Congratulations!
Carleton team’s video game creation
Prof. Whitehead and his students have created a new way put an end to Wii “cheats” who relax when they’re supposed to be virtually exercising. Further information here. Read the Ottawa Citizen article here. You can see a video here.
Lead to Win
The Lead to Win program combining classroom training and mentorship, along with the added use of facilities from business incubators. Further information can be found here.
DND/NSERC Grant
Profs. Yu (PI), Lung and Lambadaris awarded ana DND/NSERC Grant for the project "Secure cooperative wireless communications in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)". The team has been awarded $990,000 over five years to work closely with Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) and Eion Inc. to study advances in security and quality of service (QoS) of future mobile wireless networks.
NSERC CRD Grant
Profs. Dansereau and Prof. Joslin (together with and Prof. Chan at Queen's University) were awarded an NSERC CRD Grant. The team will collaborate with its industrial partner Nortel on Perceptual Scalable Video Coding with Network Managed Content Adaptation in Video Streaming and Conferencing, for a combined value of $196,200 over three years.
Prof. Falconer to receive Honorary Doctorate
Prof. David Falconer will be receiving an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Edinburgh on June 30. This award is given based on his contributions in the areas of adaptive signal processing for wired and wireless modems and next-generation broadband wireless communications systems. The Edinburgh ceremony will be on a live webcast at www.ed.ac.uk, 6 AM EDT, June 30 2009. Further information can be found here. You can read the News Release here.
Ranked 5th in Canada for Research Impact
We have been ranked 5th in Canada for impact in research by the ISI Citation Index (Research Area: Computer Science and Engineering). The ranking considers the number of indexed publications and their citations between 2003-7. Carleton is ranked 3rd in Canada according to the number of indexed publications in the same period. Further information can be found here.
New book by Prof. Wainer
Prof. Gabriel Wainer has published a new book on Discrete-Event Modeling and Simulation, describing the results of his team's research in the area. Further information can be found here.
Senate Medal for Abes Dabir
SCE student Abes Dabir (supervised by Prof. Matrawy) has obtained the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Masters level). Further information here. Congratulations!
New book by Prof. Chinneck
Prof. John Chinneck edited a new book on Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure. This is the companion volume to the Eleventh INFORMS Computing Society Conference (ICS 2009), and includes 24 high-quality refereed research papers. Further information can be found here.
New Business Ecosystem launched
Peter Carbone, Chair of the Board of Coral CEA, and Tony Bailetti, Director of the Ontario Talent First Network announced the launch of a new business ecosystem designed to assist companies to commercialize communications enabled applications (CEA). These applications marry the network capabilities and intelligence found in today's networks with the rich world of IT applications to create entirely new user experiences. The Coral CEA ecosystem is anchored around a non-profit organization with five founding members: IBM, Nortel, Carleton University, Eclipse Foundation and The IT Association of Canada. Further information can be found here.
SCE TA Excellence Award
We congratulate Mr. Alan Davoust and Ms. Daphne Townsend, as a recipient of SCE TA Excellence Award for 2008/2009 academic year. We appreciate their professional work and continued dedication as a TA in our department. Our thanks go as well to all the TAs for their contributions to the success of our courses.
Technology job program relaunched
Prof. Bailetti has relaunched the Lead to Win program (www.leadtowin.ca). The first training session is scheduled for May 19-21 and June 23-25. The program is addressed to talented individuals who are able and willing to create technology-based businesses. Further information here (read a press release here).
Video and Movie Night on April 23rd
On Thursday, April 23rd, we will be presenting a video recorded during the SCE Poster Fair and Open House, presenting the results of our 4th year project and research labs. After the video presentation, a social event (including a movie show) is scheduled. This will be a nice celebration for the end-of-term, and a nice way to say 'good luck' to our graduands. Everyone in the Department is invited. (Bell Theatre, MC2000, Minto Building. Show begins at 7 PM).
Cell BE Programming Workshop
Come to the 2nd Annual Cell BE programming Workshop at Carleton!. The program (sponsored by MITACS, IBM and Carleton) includes Keynotes, Invited sessions by Indusry partners, Hands-on tutorials and a Poster Session. Further information can be found here.
Indira Gandhi Award
Raheleh Niati (co-supervised by Profs. Banihashemi and Kunz) has won the Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship, an annual award given to a (preferably International) graduate student. Raheleh is working on Network Coding and Media Access Scheduling in Wireless Networks. Her goal is to improve the transfer rate, decrease delay and conserve energy consumption in wireless networks. Congratulations!
Prof. Adrian Chan receives TAA
Prof. Adrian Chan has been selected as one of the receipients of Carleton University's Teaching Achievement Awards. Congratulations!
Hello? It’s the future calling
Read the interview to Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu in The Globe and Mail.
Recent achievements of 4th year undergraduate and graduate students
On Friday March 20th, the SCE Open House showed the recent advances of our undergrad students (in the 4th-year project Poster Fair) and our Research (in our Research Labs Poster Fair. Further information here . See a Video here!.
Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu receives RAA
Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu has been selected as one of the receipients of Carleton University's Research Achievement Awards. Congratulations! Further information can be found here.
Ranked 5th in Canada for Research Impact
Carleton has been ranked 5th in Canada for the impact in research in Computer Science and Engineering. The ranking considers the number of indexed publications and the citations between 2003-7. Carleton is ranked 3rd in Canada according to the number of indexed publications in the same period. Further information can be found here.
Prof. Yu team awarded NSERC Strategic Grant
Prof. Richard Yu is one of the team members for the project "Enabling technologies for secure and reliable wireless body area sensor networks" (led by Prof. V. Leung, UBC). The team has been award a NSERC Strategic grant valued at $615,100 over three years to study advances in very-low-power wireless communications, including the development of ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) and ultra low power Bluetooth communications. Further information can be found here .
IEEE Canada Fessenden Award 2009 goes to Professor Falconer
Prof. David Falconer is the winner of the most prestigious IEEE Canada Fessenden Award 2009. This award is given to "outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for their
important contributions to the field of telecommunications engineering".
CFI Grant for SCE Faculty
Profs. Yu, Matrawy and Lung have been awarded $150K from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to build the Advanced Lab for Heterogeneous Communication Networks. The heterogeneous equipment includes a variety of networks ranging from sensors, RFID, wireline, mobile ad hoc and telemedicine networks that all work together. Further information can be found here.
Recognition Award for Prof. Falconer
Prof. Dave Falconer is one of the two winners of the 2008 IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications Recognition Award. This award, given every year by the IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications (TWC),
recognizes researchers with outstanding achievements and contributions in the area of wireless and mobile communications theory, systems, and networks. The award will be presented during the TWC meeting that will be held in Dresden, Germany, in June 2009.
Top 50 Inventions of 2008
Jeff Gilchrist was involved on the discovery of the largest prime number, which has been ranked as #29 on Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions of 2008. Further information can be found here. The Time Magazine list can be found here.
Senate Medal
SCE student Akram Bin Sediq (supervised by Prof. H. Yanikomeroglu) obtained the Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Master's Level). Further information can be found here.
Award in Student Competition
Mehran Talebinejad (co-supervised by Prof. A. Chan) received a third place in the student paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Montreal PQ, 2008.
Students win FPGA Award
Dragan Trifkovic and Daanish Khan were finalists in the 2008 IEEE Innovate Canada FPGA Programming Competition for their work "Heart rate estimator using phonocardiogram (PCG) signals for automated unobtrusive heart rate estimation". On the same contest, Trevor Burton and Geoffrey Green tied for third prize (CarletonDSP, Carleton university/Hardware implementation of a wavelet‐based image compression algorithm).
Early Career Award
Prof. Adrian Chan obtained the Early Career Achievement Award given by the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society. Further information here .
SCE student and Faculty win award
Graduate student Michael Floyd and his thesis supervisor Prof. Babak Esfandiari have won the Best Educational Video Award at the AAAI08 conference. You can watch the video here
SCE student helps discover the largest known prime number
Jeff Gilchrist, a Carleton University doctoral student, is part of an international team that has discovered the largest known prime number which contains 12.9 million digits. Find further information here
Open Source Tool Developed by Carleton University Interns Wins LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award
Ingres CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) won this year’s LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award in the Best Application Development Tool category LinuxWorld is one of the most comprehensive marketplaces for open source products and services in the world. Further information can be found here
SCE Students win awards in Innovation competition
Carleton students obtain awards in multidisciplinary FPGA competition. Further information can be found here. .
Prof. Banihashemi wins DAS award
| Prof. Amir Banihashemi is awarded one of NSERC's one hundred 2008 Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS). The DAS Program provides substantial and timely resources to a small group of outstanding researchers who have a well-established research program, and who show strong potential to become international leaders in their respective area of research. Each supplement is valued at $120,000 over three years, and provides recipients with additional resources to compete with the best in the world. |  |
Prof. Falconer wins the Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research 2008
| Prof. David Falconer has been awarded the Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research for 2008. Further information about the award (which was presented at the 24th Biennial Symposium on Communications at Queen's University on June 24) can be found here. |
Capital Educator's Award
Prof. Chan has won a Capital Educator's Award. You can find further information here.
SCE team finalist at the Services Computing Contest
A team at SCE and UNB (co-supervised by Prof. Wainer) has been selected finalist at the IEEE Services Computing Contest. The service integrates prediction of forest fires, weather data and Google Maps (a demo can be found here and a fully featured version here.
SCE Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards
We are pleased to inform you the recipients of the first SCE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for 2007/2008 academic year. The list of recipients can be found here.
NSERC and OGS Scholarships
Numerous students in our department have been awarded NSERC and OGS scholarships.
See the list here. Congratulations to all of them!
Remote Monitoring Endeavours
See Prof. Chan's quote on his presentation on Adverse Response Monitoring on the CBC website.
Electronic Sports
Read a news clipping about Prof. Whitehead on his research on Electronic sports here .
Outstanding TA Award
Mr. Trevor Burton (a Ph.D student at SCE) won the first annual Outstanding TA Award given by the EDC.
Further information here.
Profs. Adler and Green receive Achievement Awards
Prof. Andy Adler has received a Research Achievement Award, and Prof. James Green is the recipient of a Teaching Achievement Award. Further details here.
New book by Prof. Chinneck
"Feasibility and Infeasibility in Optimization: Algorithms and Computational Methods" is a new book by Prof. J. W. Chinneck ( further information here ).
CFI grant for Prof. Green
Prof. James Green (together with Prof. Michel Dumontier) have been awarded $114K from CFI's Leader's Opportunity Fund to create a high performance biomedical computing facility based on IMB's heterogeneous multi-core Cell BE processor. Although originally designed for the multimedia demands of the Sony PlayStation 3, here the Cell BE will be used to characterize proteins through real-time analysis of mass spectrometry data.
A News Release can be found here.
University Awards for SCE Students
SCE students won the University's top two medals in the Fall 2007 Convocation Medals as well as Engineering's top medal.
- The University's most prestigious Governor General's Medal was awarded to John Boyer (cosupervisors: Prof. D. Falconer and H. Yanikomeroglu). He was also awarded the University Medal - Doctoral.
- Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement - Doctoral awarded to Hamid Saeedi (supervisor: Prof. A. Banihashemi).
- Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement . Shauna Mullally (supervisor: Prof. Monique Frize)
For information on Fall 2007 Convocation Medals; please check HERE.
New scholarships for our Students
Students Mustafa Fanaswala, Jennifer Pryor and Hui Zhou obtained OGSST Scholarships. Muhammad Asif has won the "J. James Mackie Endowment for Graduate Scholarships in Human-Technology Interaction". Shafagh Jafer obtained a Precarn Scholarship.
McGraw-Hill scholarship award
Luke Russell, a Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student received a McGraw-Hill scholarship award. Information about the award can be found here.
Prof. Matrawy awarded research funding through OCE and Alcatel-Lucent
Professor Ashraf Matrawy has been awarded research funding through an OCE (Ontario Centers of Excellence) competition to investigate "Stealthy Worm Attacks". The funding is provided by the OCE and the Research and Innovation department of Alcatel-Lucent Canada. The amount of funding is $80,000 in addition to in-kind contributions. This funding is supporting a one-year project led by Professor Matrawy to investigate stealthy worms and characterizing their behavior.
Prof. Adler wins Dr. Michael Smith Promising Scientist Award
Prof. Adler, has been awarded the 2007 Dr. Michael Smith Promising Scientist Award as part of the 14th Annual OCRI Life Sciences Achievement Awards for his contribution to biomedical engineering and his groundbreaking work in Electrical Impedance Tomography. Read the News Release here .
Spring Simulation Conference in Ottawa
The Spring Simulation Conference will be held in Ottawa during April 2008. The submission deadline is fast approaching. A number of SCE faculties are involved in its organization.
Best Paper Award for Camille Gomez-Laberge
Camille Gomez-Laberge (supervised by Prof. Adler) won the best paper award at ICEBI'07 - 13th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance . Congratulations!
Prof. Huang was in the news, Ottawa Citizen, Sat. Aug 18th.
Read the full article.
The Department welcomes two new faculty members
Dr. Michael Weiss has joined us (July 1st) from the School of Computer Science largely in support of the TIM program. Dr. Doug King has joined us (August 1st) also largely in support of the TIM program.
Carleton University ranked 15 in international ranking of software engineering institutions
An article recently published in the Communication of the ACM (vol. 50, No. 6) is ranking Carleton University at the 15th position of the world software engineering institutions (3rd Canadian institution). See the article.
Narendra Mehta receives Hidden Hero award
Congratulations to this year's Employee Recognition Award recipient Narendra Mehta, who receives the Hidden Hero award.
Tony Bailetti receives Breakthrough Leadership award
Congratulations to this year's Employee Recognition Award recipient Tony Bailetti, who receives the Breakthrough Leadership award.
J. Gilchrist wins best paper award
J. Gilchrist won the best paper award at the IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications Conference for his work on "Parallel Lossless Data Compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform". J. Gilchrist is supervised by A. Cuhadar.
OGSST results - congratulations
Congratulations to Shafagh Jafer, Emil Janulewicz, Jason Rhinelander, Idana Veledar, and Karen Widish who will be receiving an OGSST scholarship.
Changes to the Software Engineering Program
See the details on the Undergraduate Academic Support page.
Rafik Goubran officially appointed Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Design
Carleton University President and Vice-Chancellor pro tempore Dr. Samy Mahmoud announced the appointment of Dr. Rafik A. Goubran, P.Eng. to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design.
NSSERC, OGS and Carleton University Endowment Award Winners
It is our great pleasure to annouce the NSSERC, OGS and Carleton University Endowment Awards winners.
Aroosh R. Elahi Finalists-student entrepreneur of the year
Aroosh R. Elahi founded Sombra Labs Inc. in partnership with Prof. Ioannis Lambadaris. Carleton news release
Qi (Jacky) Liu, OCRI Finalists-student researcher of the year
Qi (Jacky) Liu is a first-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Gabriel Wainer. Carleton news release
SCE students at second place in Ontario Engineering Competition
Three SCE students, namely Rohit Gupta, Nilam Kaushik, and Chandan Mohapatra, co-supervised by Professors Lambadaris and Lung got the secont place in the 2007 Ontario Engineering Competition.
Information Session on Graduate Studies and NSERC/OGS Awards
The department is holding an Information Session on Graduate Studies and NSERC/OGS awards on March 29th from 12 (noon) to 1:15pm in 508AA (Architecture Building). See the flyer.
March 1 is Engineers Without Borders day
The Carleton chapter of Engineers Without Borders is participating in a massive outreach campaign.
Adrian Chan and Peter Liu local celebrities...
Adrian Chan and Peter Liu appear in a Carleton's ad in OC Transpo buses, as part of the "What do you want to change" campaign.
Prof. Banihashemi invited by Intel
Prof. Banihashemi was invited by the Research Council at Intel Corporation to visit Intel's campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, in October 2006. This is the largest Intel Campus worldwide and the purpose of this trip was for Prof. Banihashemi to present the leading edge research of his group on Efficient Implementation of Communications Algorithms to Intel's reseachers and engineers. This resulted in awarding a grant of $53,000 US to Prof. Banihashemi.
Peter Liu received Carleton's Research Achievement Award 2006-2007
Professor Lionel Briand wins prestigious international award
Dr. Lionel Briand, Professor of Systems and Computer Engineering, spent his sabbatical working at the Simula Research Laboratories in Oslo, Norway.
He has recently been presented with the 2006 Simula Research Award. The accolade is presented annually to honour excellent contributions to research undertaken at Simula that lead to new insight within the field of information technology. This is the first time the award has been presented to a visiting researcher. Dr. Briand attributes the win to his advanced work with ABB and Telenor on software dependability and testing.
Two faculty members in Research Works (Nov. issue)
This November issue of Research Works spotlights two SCE members, namely Andy Adler and Yuu Ono.
Murray Woodside named an IEEE Fellow
Prof. Murray Woodside has recently been named an IEEE Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors of the IEEE upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to one or more of these fields. Prof. Woodside is recognized for contributions to real-time software systems performance engineering. Additional details (see "Charles Woodside").
Peter Liu received a prestigious Carty Research Fellowship Award
Prof. Peter Liu has received a prestigious Carty Research Fellowship Award. These fellowships were recently established at Carleton to provide seed funding to support innovative research initiatives and scholarly activities by faculty members who are within the first five years of their appointment at Carleton. Additional details.
Peter Liu awarded by the Ontario Government
Prof. Peter Liu has been awarded an Early Researcher Award (ERA) from the Ontario Government to assist with his leading edge research project, Surgical Training Systems with High-Fidelity Haptic Feedback. Additional details.
Carleton ranked #2 for publications in "Engineering and Technology"
A special report, by one of Canada's leading consulting firms, shows that Carleton is the number 2 ranked (comprehensive) Canadian university for publications in "Engineering and Technology" (after U of Waterloo).
Information Session on Graduate Studies
The department is holding an Information Session on Graduate Studies on November 16th from 5:30pm to 7pm in 3380ME. See the flyer.
Vesal Badee's abstract top ten finalists
Vesal Badee's abstract has been selected as one of the top ten finalists for an abstract award in the Bioengineering category for the 16th World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, Ottawa ON, 2006.
Brookfield High School teacher visited research lab
Assistant Professor Adrian Chan welcomed Brookfield High School teacher Rina Sen during 2 weeks in the framework of Teachers' Science and Technology Outreach Program, a pilot project. Story.
Dorina Petriu, Invited Lecturer
Dorina has given a lecture on performance analysis of UML designs at the Summer School on Model-Driven Development applied to Distributed, Real-time and Embedded Systems. The summer school took place at Aber Wrach, Brittany, France at the beginning of September, 2006.
Nortel Networks Scholarships
It is our great pleasure to announce the Nortel Networks Scholarship winners for the 2006-2007 academic year: Bin Yang (PhD), Michael Floyd (MASc), Hua Xiao (PhD), Fadi El-Hassan (PhD).
OGSST Scholarship winners
It is our great pleasure to announce the OGSST Scholarship winners for the 2006-2007 academic year: Imran Ahmad (PhD), Furuzan Atay (PhD), Michael Bowman (MASc), Hongyan Chen (MASc), Bo Feng (MASc), Kamal Harb (PhD), Qi Liu (PhD).
Department’s New Research Chair Takes Heart in Biomedical Research
Dr. Adler, a new faculty member of the Systems and Computer Engineering department, has just been chosen as the Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Carleton University.
Ontario to fund Carleton's Talent First program
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced a $1.1 milliom to fund Carleton's Talent First program, a new initiative led by Carleton faculty and students associated with the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program.
University Spirit Recognition Award for Adrian Chan
Adrian Chan was awarded the University Spirit Recognition Award 2006 from Carleton University. This award recognizes and honours employees who most demonstrate University Spirit by fostering a sense of belonging in the University community, or by supporting and promoting Carleton University. Congratulations Adrian!
Workshop on Software and Performance - Deadline approaching
The ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2007) will be held in Buenos Aires in February 2007. The submission deadline is appoaching. A number of SCE faculties are involved in its organization.
Lionel Briand and the "the Future of Software Engineering"
Lionel Briand will co-chair the Future of Software Engineering track at the 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, the flagship conference in software engineering.
Kayvan Mosharaf received a senate medal
Kayvan Mosharaf received a senate medal for his doctoral thesis/research on "Resource Management and Service Differentiation in WDM Networks". Kayvan's work was co-supervised by I. Lambadaris and J. Talim.
Monique Frize and the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists
Monique Frize presided over a meeting of INWES Board of Directors (International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists) in Lille (France) May 21-23 with representatives from UNESCO--Paris; OECD, World Federation of Engineering Organizations; Engineers without borders international; European Union, and others...
Monique Frize received an Honourary Degree (Doctor of Humanities) from Mount St-Vincent University in Halifax.
Changes of position
Starting on June 1st, Prof. Samy Mahmoud is the University Acting Provost. Dr. Rafik Goubran as Acting Dean of Engineering and Design for the period of Dr. Mahmoud's appointment as Acting Provost. Starting on July 1st, Prof. Victor C. Aitken is the chair of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.
Adrian Chan appeared in Wired News
SCE professors offer tutorial at ICC 2006
Two tutorials offered by two SCE professors in ICC 2006 in Istanbul Turkey:
(1) Roshdy H. M. Hafez (Carleton) & Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa): WiFi and WiMax: Theory and Practice
(2) Halim Yanikomeroglu: Infrastructure-Based Multihop, Relay and Mesh Wireless Networks
Nabil Yazdani: Honourable mention for students paper competition
Nabil Yazdani received an honourable mention for the students paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference in Vancouver.
Scholarship for Chen Hongyan and Mike Bowman
Chen Hongyan (M.A.Sc.) and Michael Bowman (M.A.Sc.), supervised by Yvan Labiche and Lionel Briand, have received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) for 2006-2007.
Scholarship for Hamid Saeedi and Yuri Boiko
Hamid Saeedi (Ph.D.) and Yuri Boiko (M.A.Sc.), supervised by Amir Banihashemi, have received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for 2006-2007.
Dorina Petriu receives seed funding
Dr. Dorina Petriu is one of four Carleton researchers who have received seed funding from the French Government to further their research collaboration with French colleagues. Dr. Petriu is working with Dr. Sébastien Gérard from the Laboratoire Logiciels pour la Sûreté des Procédés, CEA, Saclay on integrating performance evaluation techniques in Model Driven Development methods based on UML.
2005-06 Endowment Awards competition NSERC CGS D scholarship for Ilia Polushin Lionel Briand, invited speaker Lionel Briand, invited speaker CITO/Eion Research Project Reception of Communications Engineering Students Information Session on Graduate Studies IBM Faculty Award for John Chinneck John Chinneck, invited seminar speaker Amir Banihashemi received Carleton's Research Achievement Award 2006 Ahmad Rami Abu-El-Quran won poster competition The department is welcoming a new faculty member, Prof. Yuu Ono The department welcomes Coleen Kornelsen Murray Woodside awarded Pioneer of Computing in Canada Qi (Jacky) Liu and Rami Madhoun awarded Precarn Scholars Monique Frize elected President of INWES CITO/IBM-Rational research grant CITO/Alcatel research grant The department welcomes Jerry Buburuz Awards for the Carleton Shad Valley team The department is welcoming a new faculty member, Prof. James R. Green Summer 2006 Employment opportunities for undergraduate students registered in the natural sciences or engineering programs Dorina Petriu has been elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada Pirouz Zarrinkhat received the Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement Saied Hemati received the Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement Hua Xiao received OGS for 2005-2006 Gabriel Wainer received Carleton's Research Achievement Award 2005-2006 Trevor Pearce received Carleton's Teaching Achievement Award 2005-2006 David Knox received a NSERC PGS D, starting in Jan 2005 Saied Hemati received the NSERC PDF in 2005 The Future of Software Engineering Yasser L. Morgan, PhD received a NSERC award Furqan Haq received a best student paper award Lionel Briand has been ranked 5th scholar in the world Research Achievement Awards 2004-2005 Victor Aitken received Carleton's Teaching Achievement Award 2004-2005 Award for Professor Adrian Chan $ 5.54 million in recent donations and more to come Alcatel selects Carleton University as first Canadian research partner CITO awards for faculty members Award for Professor Lionel Briand Award for Professor Peter Liu Award for Professor Adrian Chan
It is our pleasure to report that our Department had great success during Carleton University's 2005-06 Endowment Awards competition. The 12 winners are listed here.
Ilia Polushin, Ph.D. Student, is supervised by Peter X. Liu and Chung-horng Lung. The scholarship is $35,000/year for up to three years.
Lionel was invited to be the keynote speaker at the following two events.
- IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2006
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2007
Lionel was an invited speaker at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (March 6, 2006) and presented a tutorial on software quality.
Project Name: QoS Optimization Using Adaptive Intelligence Techniques in Satellite Systems
Value of award: $800,000 (awarded over a period of two years)
Industrial Partner: Eion Inc.
Principal Investigator: Changcheng Huang
Co-Investigators: K. Ponnambalam (U. of Waterloo),W. Almuhtadi (Algonquin)
Communications Engineering Students of all years are invited to a reception on Monday, March 27, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in UC 231. free pizza and pop.
The department is holding a 1 hour Information Session on Graduate Studies on March 2nd at 6pm in 4276ME.
The IBM Faculty Award is a gift in recognition of achievement and not a contract for services.
John was invited at the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Canada (on Feb 13/06) and at Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Israel (on Jan 10/06).
Ahmad Rami Abu-El-Quran, who is co-supervised by Rafik Goubran and Adrian Chan won the Student Poster Competition at OCE Discovery 2006. His poster was entitled "Audio Classification Using Microphone Arrays".
Dr. Yuu Ono will be joining the faculty in July 2006. Visit his web page.
Coleen Kornelsen joins our office administration staff.
Murray was awarded Pioneer of Computing in Canada at CASCON 2006. See the story here.
Qi (Jacky) Liu and Rami Madhoun became Precarn Scholars 2006, to do work on modeling and simulation applications under the supervision of professor Gabriel Wainer in the Advanced Real-time Simulation lab.
Monique Frize has been re-elected (2005-2008) as President of INWES (INternational Network of Women Engineers and Scientists) which represents over 200,000 women in these fields in more than 40 countries. She was a founding member and first interim president 2002-2005.
Project Name: Analysis of UML models: Design framework and applications
Value of award: $265,000 (awarded over a period of two years)
Principal Investigator: Lionel Briand
Co-Investigator: Y. Labiche
Project Name: Web Services/XML Extranet Service
Value of award: $517,400 (awarded over a period of two years)
Industrial Partner: Alcatel
Principal Investigator: S. Majumdar
Co-Investigators: S.P Dandamudi (SCS) and C.H. Lung
Jerry Buburuz joins our technical support team as "Computer Network Administrator".
The Carleton Shad Valley team received a third place award in the RBC Business Plan competition, two second place awards in the Telus Marketing and NSERC Prototype competitions, and for the second year in a row received the RBC Best Overall Entrepreneurship Cup. See the complete story here.
James Green received his B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1998, and his M.Sc.(Eng.) degree from Queen’s University in 2000 for research in the areas of genomics and proteomics. He pursued a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Michael Korenberg which he received in 2005. Dr. Green joined the department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University as an Assistant Professor in Sept 2005.
If you would like to gain research experience in an academic setting, NSERC USRA awards can provide you with financial support. These awards are meant to stimulate your interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering and also to encourage you to undertake graduate studies. For more information, visit the Office of research Services web page on the topic.
See 2005 EIC awards here.
Prof. Briand will organize the Future of Software Engineering event at the next IEEE ICSE conference (the largest in the field). This is very prestigious as it consists in getting the top people in various areas of software research to present their views on the future of the field.
Yasser L. Morgan, PhD April 2005 was nominated as one of the two Carleton applicants for the 2005 NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards.
Furqan Haq (4th year undergraduate project) and Thomas Kunz, "Simulation vs. emulation: Evaluating mobile ad hoc network routing protocols", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (IWWAN 2005), London, England, May 2005. Winner of a Best Student Paper Award, see this link.
Lionel Briand has been ranked 5th scholar in the world (his 2nd consecutive year) by the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier) in the area of software systems engineering. This is based on all publications over the last 4 years in a selected number of top research journals.
Rafik Goubran and Thomas Kunz received Carleton's Research Achievement Award 2004-2005.
Professor Adrian Chan awarded the Dr. Michael Smith Promising Scientist Award by the Ottawa Life Sciences Council. See detais here.
Complete list here.
See the complete story here.
CITO and industry award over one million dollar to Faculty members. See the news here.
Professor Lionel Briand was awarded a Canada Research Chair!
Professor Peter Liu was awarded Carleton University's newest Canada Research Chair in Interactive Network Computing and teleoperation!
Professor Adrian Chan was awarded a CFI grant to establish a "Biomedical Engineering Sensors and Signals Laboratory".
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