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Rabab Ward

Rabab Ward is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rabab Ward rather than just read about it. In short: Rabab Kreidieh Ward is a Lebanese-Canadian electrical engineer specializing in signal processing. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Rabab Kreidieh Ward is a Lebanese-Canadian electrical engineer specializing in signal processing. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.

Education and career Despite finishing high school with the highest marks in her year in Lebanon, Ward was refused admission to the engineering program at the American University of Beirut because she was a woman. Instead, she began studying medicine at Cairo University to please her father, but quickly switched to engineering there, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1966. She worked briefly for the Ministry of Hydro-Electric Resources in Beirut before coming to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science, where she earned a master's degree in 1969 and completed her PhD in 1972. She moved to Vancouver following her husband, a civil engineer who had obtained a faculty position at the University of British Columbia while she had been unsuccessful in her own academic job search. Eventually, she found part time work as a lecturer at the University of British Columbia, from 1973 to 1975. In 1975, they both obtained faculty positions at the University of Rhodesia, where she became a lecturer and then senior lecturer, but by 1979 they were pushed to leave by the growing unrest of the Rhodesian Bush War, including the execution of the head of her department. They returned to the University of British Columbia and she returned to her part-time lecturer position. Finally, in 1981, she was appointed as an assistant professor, the first woman to become an engineering professor in British Columbia. She was given tenure as an associate professor in 1985, promoted to full professor in 1993, and retired as professor emerita in 2015. At UBC, she directed the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems from 1996 to 2007.

Recognition Ward became a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1997. She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999, "for contributions to digital signal processing applications in television and medical imaging". She also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2001. She was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, "for innovative applications of signal processing to industrial and bioengineering problems". In 2007, the IEEE Signal Processing Society gave her their Society Award (later renamed the Norbert Wiener Society Award), "for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in advancing the field of signal and image processing". She was president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2016–2017.

References

External links Rabab Ward publications indexed by Google Scholar

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rabab Ward

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rabab Ward claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rabab Ward before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rabab Ward ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rabab Ward

In research: Rabab Ward appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rabab Ward in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rabab Ward is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of British Columbia, Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe, Cairo University alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rabab Ward outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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