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• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• McConnell Engineering Building, Room 602
• 3480 University Street
• Montreal QC H3A 0E9
• Canada
• Telephone: 514-398-7344 or 514-398-1406
• Email: grad.ece [at] mcgill.ca
• Website: mcgill.ca/ece

The Department offers programs of graduate studies leading to a degree of Master of Science (thesis), Master of Engineering (project/non-thesis), or Doctor of Philosophy.

The research interests and facilities of the Department are very extensive, involving more than 50 faculty members and 350 postgraduate students. The major activities are divided into the following groups:

• Bioelectrical Engineering;
• Telecommunications and Signal Processing;
• Systems and Control;
• Integrated Circuits and Systems;
• Nano-Electronic Devices and Materials;
• Photonic Systems;
• Computational Electromagnetics;
• Power Engineering;
• Intelligent Systems; and
• Software Engineering.

The Department is equipped with state-of-the-art experimental laboratories and there are numerous multidisciplinary research projects, so students are provided with an ideal environment to develop new technologies, discover novel phenomena, and design revolutionary devices.

Research Facilities

The Department has extensive laboratory facilities for all its main research areas. In addition, Â鶹AV often collaborates with other institutions for teaching and research.

• The Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) is an interdisciplinary research group focused on intelligent systems. Its laboratories include research in the domains of robotics, systems and control, computer vision, medical imaging, computer graphics, and machine learning.
• Telecommunications laboratories focus their work on signal processing, broadband communications, and networking; these laboratories form part of the (STARaCOM), a Â鶹AV Research Centre devoted to fostering innovation in the area of communications systems and technologies via advanced research and training of highly qualified personnel.
• The (iML) supports research in FPGAs, MEMS, micro- and nano-systems, VLSI architectures for digital communications and signal processing, mixed signal, RF, and microwave integrated circuits and components, simulation of integrated circuits and microsystems, integrated antennas, design for testability, reconfigurable computing, high-speed circuits, and packaging.
• Antenna and microwave research, and optical fibre and integrated optics research are carried out in a fully equipped facility.
• The Group includes experimental laboratories with high-speed test and measurement equipment and optoelectronics; tunable, high power, and pulsed lasers; extensive optics and optomechanics supporting research in telecommunications for advance probing stations; signal processing, nonlinear optics, RF photonics, optical processors for computing and AI, and biosensing.
• Molecular beam epitaxy infrastructure. This infrastructure can grow wafer-scale group-III nitride epilayers and nanostructures for both photonic/optoelectronic and electronic devices.
• The provides tools for numerical analysis, visualization, interface design, and knowledge-based system development.
• For the microwave characterization research, one section of the laboratory hosts dielectric measurement probe in for the low- to high-gigahertz range.
• Additionally, access to a complete range of commercial multi-physics simulation, design, and optimization software is available. The lab also has experimental facilities for the characterization of magnetic and small dynamometer for electrical machine measurements.
• There is also a well-equipped laboratory for power electronics and power systems research ().
• Computing infrastructure for software engineering research is also available.

The Department has extensive computer facilities. Most research machines are networked, providing access to a vast array of hardware. In addition, Â鶹AV is linked to the (CRIM) and the University Computing Centre.

There are three other universities in Montreal: Concordia University is the other English-language university; l’Université de Montréal, and its affiliated school of engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, is the largest francophone university; l’Université du Québec has a campus in Montreal and in major towns throughout the province.

The proximity of these schools to Â鶹AV ensures that a rich array of courses is available to suit individual needs. Â鶹AV also collaborates on research projects with many organizations such as (IREQ) and (INRS).

Financial Support

Graduate Assistantships: The Department awards several graduate assistantships to qualified full-time graduate students. These are normally funded from research grants or contracts awarded to individual faculty members. In return, the graduate assistant is expected to perform research-related tasks assigned by the professor from whose grant the assistantship is paid. A good part, but not necessarily all, of this work can be used for preparing a thesis. There is no special application form for graduate assistantships; all applicants who indicate a need for support on their application forms will be considered.

Teaching Assistantships: Graduate students, with the approval of their supervisors, may also undertake teaching assistantships for additional remuneration. These are awarded at the beginning of the term. The Department can make no prior commitments.

Graduate students can also receive financial aid through fellowships, loans, or bursaries. For more information, please refer to mcgill.ca/gps/funding, or contact:

• Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Â鶹AV
• James Administration Building, Room 400
• 845 Sherbrooke Street West
• Montreal QC H3A 0G4
• Website: mcgill.ca/gps/contact/gps