Raafat Mansour, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was honoured with an engineering medal for research and development by the
Mansour is considered Canada's foremost researcher, and among the world's best, in the field of microwave engineering. Mansour, a Waterloo Engineering alumnus, is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems and has held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair for 10 years.
Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in 1999, Mansour was with COM DEV located in Cambridge, Ontario. At COM DEV he progressed through various technical and management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department. His research at COM DEV brought international success and recognition to the company, a world leader in providing satellite payload equipment to the space industry.
In 2004, he established the only cleanroom facility in Canada that is dedicated to RF micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) research, providing critical MEMS fabrication support to researchers across Canada. This Waterloo facility has enabled the launch of a new avenue of research that has paved the way to the development of a wide range of highly advanced RF MEMS devices and low-cost nano-instrumentation technologies.