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The Governor General Gold Medal, one of the highest honours in academia and research in Canada, is awarded to Dr. Tejinder Singh, who graduated in 2020 from the Faculty of Engineering, has received the medal for highest standing in a doctoral program. It is the most prestigious award a graduate can attain in a Canadian university. The university nominates only one PhD graduate with highest academic standing from all fields of study. This medal celebrates the impactful research and scholarly excellence.

Electrical and computer engineering alumnus, Dr. Tejinder Singh, has won the Young Engineer Prize for his work on "Reconfigurable PCM GeTe-Based Latching 6-Bit Digital Switched Capacitor Bank" presented at the 2020 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). 

ECE’s Huayong (Johnny) Jia, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Raafat Mansour, was awarded the 3rd place Best Student Paper prize in the Student Paper Contest at the 2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) [Virtual] for his research on “Wide-band Triplexer Realized in Niobium-Based Multilayer Substrate.”

Raafat R. Mansour, Ph.D., P.Eng., F.I.E.E.E., F.E.I.C., FCAE, was honoured at the 2014 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards with the Engineering Medal for Research and Development. 

The Engineering Medal honours those association members who have contributed substantially to advancing the engineering profession, and recognizes excellence in the practice of engineering.

Dr. Tejinder Singh, former PhD student and currently a Research Associate under the supervision of Professor Raafat Mansour, was awarded Best Paper award with Honorable Mention among Top 10 papers at the prestigious 2021 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Atlanta, GA for his research on “Scalable Non-Volatile Chalcogenide Phase Change GeTe-Based Monolithically Integrated mmWave Crossbar Switch Matrix.”

Navjot Khaira and Armin Smajevic of CIRFEreceived Engineering Excellence Fellowships. These fellowships are awarded to the top candidates in Engineering fields. 

Navjot is currently holding an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), a competitive provicial graduate scholarship. Navjot and Armin also received President's Graduate Scholarship for the duration of their fellowships.

Congratulations Navjot and Armin!

When delegates gathered in San Francisco for a big annual conference in his field earlier in 2016, Raafat Mansour was eager to find out how many of his former Waterloo Engineering graduate students were among them.

Professor Raafat Mansour's PhD student, Tejinder Singh, has won the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research project "Miniature Phase-Change Materials-based RF Switch Matrices for Wireless and Satellite Communication Systems." 

Neil Sarkar, Co-founder at ICSPI Corp. and Adhawk Microsystems receives Outstanding Paper Award at TRANSDUCERS Conference.

Congratulations Neil! 

Tejinder Singh, PhD candidate at CIRFE receives the 2016-2017 WIN Nanofellowship for his cross-disciplinary PhD research on RF micro/nanotechnology.