This is the archival Symposium CD for Connections 2007 hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto on June 15, 2007. The symposium includes multiple sessions consisting of short presentations by ECE graduate students outlining the research topics pursued at the Department, accompanied by poster sessions with ample opportunitities for informal interaction between participants.

The objectives of this event are to promote interaction between members of industry and our graduate students and faculty, to learn about current research, to encourage cross-discipline research and to identify future directions and collaboration opportunities. In addition to these objectives, the Connections 2007 edition of the conference created a channel for students to submit their resumes to companies.

The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1909 when the School of Practical Science entered the University of Toronto as the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. In June 2000, Ted Rogers Jr. made a substantial donation in honour of his father, who was a student of the Department from 1919 to 1921. In recognition of this donation, the Department is now known as The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In the early days the department offered a very practical undergradu- ate curriculum, similar to those of the pre-existing land grant agricultur- al and mechanical colleges in the United States. The applied science component of the Department's program began to develop in the early 1920s. The degree of Master of Applied Science was instituted in 1923, one year after the School of Graduate Studies was established at the University. The first Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering was awarded in 1951.

Today's Department is organized into eight cooperating research groups: biomedical, communications, computer, electrical, electromag- netics, energy systems, photonics, and systems control. Elements of all of these sub-disciplines are reflected in Connections 2007, The University of Toronto ECE Graduate Symposium.