Adel Sedra
| Adel S. Sedra | |
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| Born |
November 2, 1943 Egypt |
| Residence | Canada |
| Occupation | Professor of electrical engineering |
| Known for | Microelectronics |
| Title | Former Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo |
| Children | Paul Sedra, Mark Sedra |
Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor.
Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectively. 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. He served as Dean of Engineering until June 2012.
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 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 published in 1995. His first text book (with co-author Peter O. Brackett) titled Filter Theory and Design: Active and Passive was published in 1978.
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