Award Overview
The Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration is open to graduate degree students of a Canadian University.
The award will be made to the competitor who demonstrates the most effective multi-technology and/or multi-disciplinary microsystems project. Such as:
- A project integrating two or more distinctly different microsystems technologies* e.g. microelectronics and MEMS in either a monolithic or hybrid environment.
- A microsystems project with two or more researchers from distinctly different research disciplines e.g. EE/ECE, Mechanical Engineering and Bio-chemistry
An ideal project would contain elements of both areas. The research project itself is expected to be both novel and industrially relevant.
The competition is intended to identify and support researchers using microsystems technologies in collaborative, multi-disciplinary and/or multi-technology environments.
Submissions can be working projects, demonstration applications prototypes or description of new design methodologies which exemplify the concept of multi-technology and/or multi-disciplinary microsystems integration.
Competitors may also be eligible for other competitions being held as part of TEXPO:
If you have any general questions on the Award, contact
Sarah Neville, Tel: 613.530.4655, Fax: 613.548.8104,
E-mail: neville@cmc.ca
* Microsystems Technologies include: microelectronics, MEMS, microfluidics and optoelectronics.
2009
Leyla Soleymani and Hooman Zamani (University of Toronto) won the 2009 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration for their research demonstration entitled Electronic Chip for Gene-Based Bacterial Screening.
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Leyla Soleymani (left) and Hooman Zamani (right), University of Toronto accept the 2009 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration from Dr. Brian Barge (centre), The Evidence Network. |
Previous Award Winners
2008
Hamed Mazhab Jafari (University of Toronto) won the 2008 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration for his research demonstration entitled CMOS-Microfluidic Thin-Film Biochemical Sensory Microsystem.
| Hamed Mazhab Jafari (left), University of Toronto accepts the 2008 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration from Jim Roche (right), Board of Directors, CMC Microsystems on behalf of Dr. Brian L. Barge. |
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2007
Nigel Munce (University of Toronto) won the 2007 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration for his presentation entitled MicroDevices for Minimally Invasive Medical Interventions.
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Nigel Munce (right), University of Toronto accepts the 2007 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration from Chris Lumb (left), Micralyne on behalf of Dr. Brian L. Barge. |
Runner-up:
Ruchi Gupta (McMaster University) received the runner-up recognition for the 2007 Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration for her project entitled Laminar Microfluidics Logic Devices for an Integrated On-Chip Microfluidic Processor.
2006
Dr. Réjean Fontaine (Université de Sherbrooke) won the2006 CMC Microsystems Integration Award forhis presentation entitled Design of an Avalanche Photodiode based Positron Emission Tomography Scanner Dedicated to Small Animals.
| Dr. Réjean Fontaine (left), Université de Sherbrooke, accepts the 2006 Integration Award from Brian Barge (right), past President and CEO, CMC Microsystems. |
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2005
Lee Hartley (University of Calgary) won the 2005 CMC Microsystems Integration Award for hispresentation and demo entitled A Real Time Digital Cytometer System Combining 0.8um High Voltage CMOS Actuation, 0.18um CMOS Active Pixel Sensing & Glass Microfluidics via Flip-Chip-on-Glass Hybrid Integration.
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Lee Hartley (right), University of Calgary, accepts the 2005 CMC Microsystems Integration Award from by Dr. Brian Barge (left), President and CEO of CMC. |
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