Sidney Zarabi is an articling student in Smart & Biggar’s Ottawa office. He has recently earned a J.D. from the University of Windsor. During his legal studies, Sidney actively volunteered within the legal community as a senior case worker at the Community Legal Aid, a business associate with the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (WRLSI), as co-chair at the Windsor Law Mental Health and Wellness Initiative, and as a project facilitator with Pro Bono Students Canada and Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).
Sidney completed his M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo where he specialized in the area of Silicon Devices and Integrated Circuits.
During his graduate studies, Sidney was recognized for his academic achievement with the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), University of Waterloo’s President's Graduate Scholarship, and the respected Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship.
He completed his B.A.Sc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Qualifications
- News
- Speaking
- In the Media
- Beyond Engineering: Broaden your Career Horizons, IEEE Student Branch - University of Waterloo, September 28, 2018
- Conference Presentation, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy: A Self-Contained Integrated System for Electricity Grid Monitoring
- “Design and Development of a Self-contained and Non-Invasive Integrated System for Electricity Monitoring Applications,” MASc seminar, University of Waterloo, July 25, 2017
- “Electricity Monitoring System with Interchangeable Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Dynamic Power Management Circuitry” (co-authors: Zongxian Yang, Egon Fernandes, Isabel Rua, Hélène Debéda, Armaghan Salehian, David Nairn and Lan Wei), IEEE, January 28, 2019
- “A Simple Wireless Sensor Node System for Electricity Monitoring Applications: Design, Integration, and Testing with Different Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters” (co-authors: Zongxian Yang, Egon Fernandes, Maria-Isabel Rua-Taborda, Hélène Debéda, Armaghan Salehian, David Nairn and Lan Wei), Sensors, November 2, 2018
- Cited in - “September Research Spotlight: Self-powered sensors could help avoid blackouts,” Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, September 5, 2018
- “Design, fabrication, and testing of a low frequency MEMS piezoelectromagnetic energy harvester” (co-authors: Egon Fernandes, Blake Martin, Isabel Rua, Hélène Debéda, David Nairn, Lan Wei and Armaghan Salehian), Smart Materials and Structures (SMS), February 20, 2018
- “Design and development of a self-contained and non-invasive integrated system for electricity monitoring applications” (co-authors: Egon Fernandes, Isabel Rua, Armaghan Salehian, Hélène Debéda, David Nairn and Lan Wei), IEEE, January 11, 2018
- “Printed MEMS-based self–contained piezoelectric-based monitoring device for smart grids” (co-authors: Hélène Debéda, Isabel Rua-Taborda, Egon Fernandes, David Nairn, Lan Wei and Armaghan Salehian), Proceedings for the PowerMEMS2017, November 14-17, 2017
- “Design and Development of a Self-contained and Non-Invasive Integrated System for Electricity Monitoring Applications,” a thesis presented to the University of Waterloo, August 30, 2017
- “Optimization of the fabrication of a low frequency energy harvester made of printed PZT layers on a meander shape stainless substrate” (co-authors: Maria-Isabel Rua-Taborda, Egon Fernandes, David Nairn, Lan Wei, Armaghan Salehian and Hélène Debéda), Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS Symposium DTIP'2017, May 2017
- “Modelling and fabrication of a compliant centrally supported meandering piezoelectric energy harvester using screenprinting technology” (co-authors: Egon Fernandes, Hélène Debéda, C Lucat, David Nairn, Lan Wei and Armaghan Salehian), PowerMEMS2016; Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) vol. 773, December 6-9, 2016