Rate My Professor Brent Petersen

Brent Petersen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He earned a B.Eng. from Carleton University in 1985, an M.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1987, and a Ph.D. from Carleton University in 1992. Prior to joining UNB in 1997, Petersen held a postdoctoral fellowship at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he contributed to an EC-funded RACE project on spread spectrum systems for commercial applications. From 1994 to 1997, he was affiliated with the University of Calgary and TR Labs, focusing on interference suppression in wireless applications. His academic background also includes professional experience at Cybernex, Northern Telecom, Bell Northern Research, and the Defense Research Establishment Ottawa during his undergraduate studies.