TRLabs researcher receives national honour

March 27, 2000 -- Edmonton, AB - TRLabs Scientist and University of Alberta Professor Dr. Witold Krzymien was elected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and honoured at the recent EIC Awards Ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Fellows are chosen by their peers for excellence in engineering and service to the profession and to Canada. Only 18 Fellows were selected this year from a pool of 30,000 members of the Canadian engineering technical societies associated under the umbrella of the EIC.

Says TRLabs President and CEO Glenn Rainbird, "This is truly a great honour for Dr. Krzymien. I am pleased that he is being recognized for his on-going commitment to conducting innovative research, to training top-quality graduate students and service to the profession."

Dr. Krzymien has been a TRLabs Scientist and a faculty member of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta since 1986. His current research interests are in signal processing, multiple access and radio resource management problems in digital cellular wireless communication systems, particularly those employing spread spectrum and code division multiple access (CDMA). He has significant contributions in the areas of CDMA synchronization, power control, power and bandwidth allocation, subtractive cancellation of multiple access interference, spectrally efficient multi-carrier spread spectrum systems and efficient new approaches to performance evaluation.

Dr. Krzymien is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the Technical Committee on Personal Communications of the IEEE Communications Society and a member of the Canadian National Committee of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI). He received the 1991/92 A.H. Reeves Premium Award in digital coding from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.) for a paper on coded high data rate digital subscriber loop transmission published in the IEE Proceedings, Part I.

The EIC is a federation that pursues the common interest and co-operation of its seven member engineering societies: The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, The Canadian Geotechnical Society, The Canadian Society for Engineering Management, The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and IEEE Canada. These societies have a combined membership of 30,000 engineers, geo-scientists and engineering technologists. Its mandate includes promotion of the positive image and achievements of the engineering profession within the Canadian society, as well as support of continuing engineering education and technical professional development.

TRLabs is Canada's leading information and communications technology (ICT) research consortium. Through industry-university-government collaboration, TRLabs creates innovative technologies and trains students at the graduate and undergraduate levels to enhance Canada's information and communications technology expertise and improve its global competitiveness. TRLabs operates research labs in five cities: Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg. Its industrial sponsors include telecom carriers, multinational equipment manufacturers, telecommunications service providers and close to 30 small technology businesses throughout Western Canada. University sponsors are the Universities of Alberta, Calgary, Manitoba, Regina and Saskatchewan, and government sponsors are the Governments of Canada, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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