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Adel Sedra
Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and
professor. Adel S. Sedra

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Career
Awards and honors
References
Born November 2, 1943
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Egypt
Occupation Professor of electrical
Career engineering
Known for Microelectronics
Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his B.Sc. from Cairo
Title Former Dean of
University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University
Faculty of
of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectively. All three of his
degrees are in electrical engineering. Engineering,
University of Waterloo
Sedra joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1969 and Children Paul Sedra, Mark
became associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1978. He Sedra
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. He served as Dean of Engineering until June 2012.[1]

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[2] (with co-author K.C. 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. He is co-author with Gordon W. Roberts of the
text book SPICE for Microelectronic Circuits[3] published in 1995. His first text book (with co-author
Peter O. Brackett) titled Filter Theory and Design: Active and Passive[4] was published in 1978.

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 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 Government 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.[5] Sedra served as a delegate to Oxford

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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 NSERC
Grant Selection Committees.

Awards and honors

Sedra is the recipient of several honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Laws degree from the
University of Toronto (2005),[6] Doctor of Science degrees from Queen's University (2003)[7] and
McGill University (2007),[8] and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Ryerson University (2015)[9]

Sedra was elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1984),[10] the
Canadian Academy of Engineering (1999),[11][12] and the Royal Society of Canada (2003).[13][14]

Sedra is the recipient of several awards, including the 1988 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from
the American Society for Engineering Education,[15] the 1996 IEEE Education Medal,[16] the 2000
"IEEE Third Millennium Medal",[17] the 2002 "Engineering Medal for Excellence" from Professional
Engineers Ontario,[18] the 2002 "Engineering Alumni Medal" of the University of Toronto
Engineering Alumni Association,[19] and the 2010 "Outstanding Service Award to the Canadian
Microelectronics Industry" from the Information Technology Association of Canada.[20]

In 2002, the "Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award" was created by the University of Toronto
Alumni Association (UTAA), to honor Sedra for his accomplishments during his nine years as vice-
president and provost of the University of Toronto. For every year since 2003, it has been awarded
"to a graduate student who demonstrates outstanding academic and extracurricular
leadership".[21][22]

In 2013, the University of Waterloo's 20,000-square-foot student design centre located in

Engineering 5 was named the "Sedra Student Design Centre" to honour Sedra as a former Dean of
Waterloo Engineering.[23][24]

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".[25]

References
1. https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/about/dean-engineering
2. Sedra, Adel S.; Smith, Kenneth C. (November 14, 2014). Microelectronic Circuits (7 ed.). Oxford,
UK: Oxford University Press. p. 1488. ISBN 0199339139.
3. Roberts, Gordon W.; Sedra, Adel S. (June 8, 1995). SPICE for Microelectronic Circuits (3 ed.).
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 648. ISBN 0030526175.
4. Sedra, Adel S.; Brackett, Peter O. (1978). Filter Theory and Design: Active and Passive. Portland,
OR: Matrix Publishers Inc. p. 785. ISBN 0916460142.
5. "Research Council - Adel Sedra" (http://www2.cifar.ca/about-us/cifar-structure/research-council/?i
=431). Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
6. "Honorary Degree Recipients, 1850 - 2010" (http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Assets/Gov
erning+Council+Digital+Assets/Boards+and+Committees/Committee+for+Honorary+Degrees/deg
reerecipients1850tillnow.pdf) (PDF). University of Toronto. June 22, 2010. Retrieved January 24,
2011.
7. "Honorary degrees" (https://web.archive.org/web/20090304132120/http://www.queensu.ca/secret
ariat/HDrecipients.pdf) (PDF). Queen's University. December 6, 2010. Archived from the original
(http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/HDrecipients.pdf) (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved
January 23, 2011.
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8. "McGill to recognize fourteen outstanding individuals with honorary degrees" (https://www.mcgill.c

a/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=25067). McGill News. McGill University. April 20, 2007.
Retrieved January 24, 2011.
9. "Ryerson University to honour Adel Sedra, Ed Clark and Catherine Zahn with Honorary Degrees"
(https://web.archive.org/web/20150723012040/http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Publi
c/20150527_ma_sedraclarkzahn.html). Ryerson University. May 27, 2015. Archived from the
original (http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20150527_ma_sedraclarkzahn.html)
on 2015-07-23. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
10. "Fellow Class of 1984" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100413081119/http://www.ieee.org/membe
rship_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1984.html). IEEE. Archived from the
original (http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1984.
html) on 2010-04-13. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
11. "Member List" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.acad-eng-gen.ca/e/mem
bers.cfm). Canadian Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original (http://www.acad-eng-ge
n.ca/e/members.cfm) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
12. "Alumni Accomplishments - The Canadian Academy of Engineering - 1999 CAE Fellows" (http://w
ww.engineering.uwaterloo.ca/alumni/medals/other%20-%20Canadian%20Academy%20of%20En
gineering.html). University of Waterloo. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
13. "Search Fellows - Sedra" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120309013758/http://www.rsc.ca/submit
search.php?sFirstName=&sLastName=Sedra&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=
Search). Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original (http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.ph
p?sFirstName=&sLastName=Sedra&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search)
on 2012-03-09. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
14. "Induction Ceremony - Adel Sedra" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110714142720/http://www.rsc.
ca/files/publications/proceedings/2003/proceedings_2003-part1.pdf) (PDF). Proceedings of the
Royal Society of Canada. seventh series. Royal Society of Canada. II: 31. 2003. Archived from
the original (http://www.rsc.ca/files/publications/proceedings/2003/proceedings_2003-part1.pdf)
(PDF) on 2011-07-14. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
15. "Past Frederick Emmons Terman Award Winners" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130402171545/
http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-a
ward-winners-2). American Society for Engineering Education. Archived from the original (http://w
ww.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-wi
nners-2#Electrical_and_Computer_Engineering_Division) on 2013-04-02. Retrieved January 22,
2011.
16. "IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Recipients" (http://www.ieee.org/documents/educa
tion_rl.pdf) (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
17. "2000 Awards & Recognitions - IEEE Third Millennium Medalists" (http://www.ieee.ca/awards/3rd
_millennium.php). IEEE Canada. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
18. "World-renown Microelectronics Engineer, and University of Toronto Executive Receives
Excellence Award" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110706192622/http://www.peo.on.ca/News/Pr
ess_Releases/2002/sedra.html). News Release. Professional Engineers Ontario. November 16,
2002. Archived from the original (http://www.peo.on.ca/News/Press_Releases/2002/sedra.html)
on 2011-07-06. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
19. "Engineering Alumni Medal - Past Recipients" (http://alumni.utoronto.ca/s/731/index.aspx?sid=73
1&gid=36&pgid=2164). University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Association. Retrieved
January 24, 2011.
20. "ITAC Gallery of Outstanding Service to the Canadian Microelectronics Industry" (https://web.arch
ive.org/web/20110303082140/http://itac.ca/service_awards). Information Technology Association
of Canada. Archived from the original (http://itac.ca/service_awards) on 2011-03-03. Retrieved
January 26, 2011.
21. "The Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award" (https://archive.is/20120709035816/http://alu
mni.utoronto.ca/s/731/index.aspx?sid=731&gid=1&pgid=2657). University of Toronto Alumni
Association. Archived from the original (http://alumni.utoronto.ca/s/731/index.aspx?sid=731&gid=
1&pgid=2657) on 2012-07-09. Retrieved January 25, 2011.

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22. "Awards of Excellence - Recipients from Past Years" (https://web.archive.org/web/201101190323

36/http://alumni.utoronto.ca/s/731/index.aspx?sid=731&gid=1&pgid=667). University of Toronto
Alumni Association. Archived from the original (http://alumni.utoronto.ca/s/731/index.aspx?gid=1&
pgid=667&sid=731) on 2011-01-19. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
23. "Waterloo names Student Design Centre after former dean" (https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-
names-student-design-centre-after-former-dean). Waterloo Stories. 2013-10-21. Retrieved
2017-10-20.
24. "About Sedra Student Design Centre | Sedra Student Design Centre" (https://uwaterloo.ca/sedra-
student-design-centre/about). Sedra Student Design Centre. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
25. "New Appointees to the Order of Ontario" (http://news.ontario.ca/mci/en/2014/01/new-appointees-
to-the-order-of-ontario.html). January 23, 2014.

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