Adel Sedra

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Adel Sedra is an Egyptian electrical engineer whose research specialization is microelectronics, with particular emphasis on applications in communication and instrumentation systems. He received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1964. This was followed by a master's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1969, both from the University of Toronto. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 1969, and received promotions to associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1978. He served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1986 to 1993, and was provost from 1993 to 2002. In 2003, he joined the University of Waterloo as dean of its Faculty of Engineering. He has also co-authored three textbooks, including Microelectronic Circuits (co-authored with Prof. K.C. Smith), which is one of the most widely used texts on the subject to date.

Dr. Sedra enjoys teaching and teaches an undergraduate course in Microelectronics every winter term to Electrical and Computer Engineers.