Education
And Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectively.
And Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectively.
Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his Bachelor of Science from Cairo University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. All three of his degrees are in electrical engineering. Sedra joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1969 and became associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1978.
He served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1986 to 1993, and was vice president, provost, and chief academic officer from July 1, 1993 to 2002.
In his nine years as provost Sedra led the university through two major long-range planning cycles in 1994 and 1998. On July 1, 2003, Sedra joined the University of Waterloo as dean of its Faculty of Engineering and as professor of electrical and computer engineering.
In 2004 he initiated the University of Waterloo Engineering Planning Exercise, VISION 2010. A specialist in microelectronics, Sedra"s research focuses on applications in communication and instrumentation systems, including theory and design of circuits.
Sedra has co-authored three textbooks, including Microelectronic Circuits (with KC Smith), now in its seventh edition (2014).
The text is published in ten languages, has over one million copies in print, and is one of the most widely used texts on the subject to date. Sedra has published about 150 scholarly papers, has guided the research of about 65 graduate students, and has also served as a consultant to industry and governments in Canada and the United States. Sedra served as a delegate to Oxford University Press (1995–2008) and is currently editing the Oxford Electrical and Computer Engineering Series.
More recently, Sedra chaired a committee that reviewed the Structure of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Grant Selection Committees.
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Sedra was a founding member and a member of the board of directors of the Information Technology Research Centre, a designated centre-of-excellence funded by the Province of Ontario (now the Centre of Excellence for Communications and Information Technology, one of the Ontario Centres of Excellence. From 1990 to 1994, Sedra was a member of the Scientific Assessment Panel for the Industry Research Program of Technology Ontario, and is currently a member of the Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2014, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for his " seminal work which has resulted in major developments in fields ranging from medical technology to wireless communications".