Alumni News - Electrical & Computer Engineering

If you have some alumni news you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you! Please send your news to Jessica MacInnis, ECE's External Relations Manager, at jessica.macinnis@utoronto.ca.

Photo of Peter Munk (ElecE 5T2) was a Canadian business leader whose philanthropic contributions to education, medicine and public life are unparalleled. He passed away at the age of 90.

In Memoriam: Peter Munk (1927-2018)

March 29, 2018

Professor Jason Anderson holds an FPGA board with the LegUp team behind him. Left to right, Zhi Li (CompE 1T3), Omar Ragheb (CompE MEng 1T8), Professor Jason Anderson (ECE), Dr. Jongsok Choi (CompE MASc 1T2, PhD 1T6), Dr. Andrew Canis (CompE PhD 1T5), and Ruolong Lian (CompE 1T3, MASc 1T6) are making it easier for software developers to leverage servers based on FPGAs. (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

ECE spin-off LegUp Computing secures seed funding from Intel Capital

February 22, 2018

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0, at right) presents the Meritorious Service Cross to Professor Tom Chau (IBBME), Pierre Duez (EngSci 0T0, MASc IndE 0T3), Andrea Lamont, and Eric Wan (CompE 1T0, ECE MASc 1T3) on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, during a ceremony at Rideau Hall. (Credit: MCpl Vincent Carbonneau, Rideau Hall, OSGG)

Professor Tom Chau, U of T Engineering alumni awarded Governor General Meritorious Service Decoration

December 12, 2017

U of T Engineering alumnus Tony Lacavera (CompE 9T7) addresses aspiring entrepreneurs as part of startup accelerator The Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s speaker series, Nov. 23, 2017. (Credit: Tristan Cannon-Sherlock)

‘We need to celebrate our successes’: Tony Lacavera tells The Hatchery how Canadian entrepreneurs can win

November 24, 2017

Rose and Chau honoured by Engineering Alumni Network

November 10, 2017

Gimmy Chu stands on stage in front of a TEDX projection

Beyond the bulb and into the abyss: ECE alumnus Gimmy Chu talks light and legacy at TEDxToronto

November 2, 2017

Professor Vivienne Sze (ElecE 0T4) holds the Emmy her team won at the Engineering Emmy Awards (Photo: Minhua Zhou)

ECE alumna on Emmy Award winning team for work on video compression

October 31, 2017

From start-up to success: Alumni talk entrepreneurship at BizSkule event in Palo Alto

October 13, 2017

Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0) will succeed David Johnston as the next Governor General of Canada. The U of T Engineering alumna has been to space twice, and is also an accomplished athlete, singer and pianist. (Image courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency)

Julie Payette, astronaut and ECE alumna, named next Governor General

July 13, 2017

ECE Alumna Catherine Lacavera to receive honorary degree

June 12, 2017