Waterloo ECE students take first runner-up in an IEEE hardware design award

A Waterloo Electrical and Computer Engineering team competed at the IEEE symposium on electromagnetic compatibility, signal and power integrity (EMC+SIPI) in Texas, where it was first runner-up for the hardware design award. Earlier this summer the same team had been named one of three finalists in the IEEE EMC+SIPI student hardware design contest.

Adjunct professor George Shaker supervises the team: master’s student Jake Peters, PhD student Amirbahador Mansoori, and undergraduate research assistants Alanna Rudolph and Dhyey Bhatt, all in his Wireless Sensors & Devices Lab.

Their work evaluates power integrity along with radiated and conducted emissions, combining circuit simulation, physical probing and automated measurements. They designed a bimanual robotic scanner with closed-loop vision for near-field interference mapping. ArUco markers give it millimetre-level precision as it locates the sources of radiated emissions across a custom printed circuit board. The students are active in the IEEE EMC Society Student Branch Chapter.