Award Overview
The Strategic
Microelectronics Council (SMC) of ITAC provides
an Industrial Collaboration Award that is open to graduate
degree students of a Canadian
university. The Award is focused on research activity
arising from university-industry collaboration
which has produced substantive results with commercial
potential. It should be used for travel costs
supporting further interaction with Canadian companies
or attendance at one or more conferences or workshops
to further the education of the winner. It will be made
to the competitor who best demonstrates research with
a high-degree of excellence and effective industry-university
collaboration.
Participants in the competition for the SMC Industrial
Collaboration Award may also be eligible for the:
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
2009
Anthony Karloff (University of Windsor) won the 2009 ITAC/SMC Industrial Collaboration Award for his research demonstration entitled A Resource Efficient, Real-Time, Hardware-Based Image Demosaicing Algorithm.
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Dr. Bill Miller (right) accepts the SMC Industrial Collaboration Award from Bernard Courtois (left), Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC on behalf of Anthony Karloff.
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Previous Award Winners
2008
Chin Pang Billy Siu (University of British Columbia) won the 2008 ITAC/SMC Industrial Collaboration Award for his research demonstration entitled A Metal MUMPs Fabrication Process for Dual-Axes Scanning Microlens.
| Chin Pang Billy Siu (left) accepts the ITAC/SMC Industrial Collaboration Award from Bernard Courtois (right), Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC. |
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2007
Gholamreza Chaji (University of Waterloo) tied for the first place for the 2007 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award for his presentation entitled A Low-cost Low-power Stable Amorphous Silicon Amoled Display.
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Gholamreza Chaji (right) accepts the SMC Industrial Collaboration Award from Iain Scott (left), Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC.
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Muhammad Arsalan and Atif Shamim (Carleton University) tied for first place for the 2007 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award for their presentation entitled DOSIMETER: Wireless Microchips in LTCC Package for Biomedical and Space Applications.
| Muhammad Arsalan (centre) and Atif Shamim (right) accept the SMC Industrial Collaboration Award from Iain Scott (right), Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC. |
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2006
Amir H. Goldan (Simon Fraser University) won the 2006 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award for his presentation entitled Imaging for Placement of Radioactive seed for Breast Cancer Screening.
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Amir H. Goldan (left), Simon Fraser University, accepts the Industrial Collaboration Award from David Lynch (right), Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Video Products, Gennum Corporation
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2005
The 2005 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award was presented to Mohammad Maymandi-Nejad of the University of Waterloo for his project entitled A Wireless Bio-Implantable Device for Monitoring Blood Pressure of Transgenic Mice.
| Mohammad Maymandi-Nejad (right) was presented his award by Lynda Leonard (left), Vice President, Communications and Research, ITAC. |
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2004
Jim Kulyk (University of Calgary) won the 2004 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award with his presentation entitled CMOS Integrated Q-Enhanced RF Bandpass Filter.
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Jim
Kulyk (right), University of Calgary,
is presented with the ITAC - SMC Industrial Collaboration
Award by Mr. Ken Schultz (left),
Chair of the Strategic Microelectronics Council
of ITAC. |
2003
Mehboob Alam (University of Calgary) won the 2003 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award with his presentation entitled Motion stimation Architecture for MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description, which focused on research activity arising from university-industry collaboration which has produced substantive results with commercial potential.
| Mehboob
Alam (left), University of Calgary,
is presented the ITAC - Strategic Microelectronics
Council Industrial Collaboration Award by
Mr. Ken Schultz (right), Chair of
ITAC's Strategic Microelectronics Council. |
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2002
The 2002 SMC Industrial Collaboration Award, with a prize
of $3,000, was won by Rola Baki and
Mourad El-Gamal of McGill University,
for her poster presentation A
Low-Power Fully Programmable Log-Domain Filter for Hard
Disk Drive Applications.
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Iain
Scott (left), Vice President of the Strategic
Microelectronics Council of ITAC, presents the SMC
Collaboration Award to Rola Baki
(right) of McGill University. |
2001
Sazzadur Chowdhury, M. Ahmadi, G.A. Jullien,
W.C. Miller (University of Windsor) won the
2001 SMC award for their demonstration A
Surface Mountable MEMS Beamforming Microphone Array
and Associated MEMS Socket Structure (PDF).
| Andy Molozzi
(right) of the Strategic Microelectronics
Consortium presents the SMC Industrial Collaboration
Award to Sazzadur Chowdhury (left)
of the University of Windsor |
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2000
Dorin Emil Calbaza and Yvon Savaria (École
Polytechnique de Montréal) received the $3000
SMC Award in 2000 for their demonstration A
Direct Digital Synthesis Circuit (PDF)
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Dorin Emil
Calbaza (right), École Polytechnique
de Montréal receiving the SMC Industrial
Collaboration Award from Iain Scott (left), Executive
Director of Strategic Microelectronics Consortium. |
1999
Eyad Abou-Allam, Tajinder Manku, John J. Nisbet
(University of Waterloo) won the $3000 1999 SMC Industrial
Collaboration Award for their poster presentation A
1V PCS 1900 Receiver RF Front-End in 0.5-micron CMOS.
| Iain Scott (right),
SMC, presenting the $3000 SMC Industrial Collaboration
Award to Eyad Abou-Allam (left),
University of Waterloo. |
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1998
John Rogers, Carleton University won
the 1998 Strategic Microelectronics Consortium (SMC)
Industrial Collaboration Award for his TEXPO'98 demonstration
A 1.8 GHz Differential VCO in a 0.5-micron Bipolar
Process.
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Dennis Senik (left),
SMC, presenting the 1998 SMC Industrial Collaboration
Award to John Rogers (right), Carleton University. |
1997
Ramachandra Achar, Carleton University won the first ever (1997) Strategic Microelectronics
Consortium (SMC) Industrial Collaboration Award for
his TEXPO'97 demonstration A Novel Method for Efficient
Simulation of High-Speed VLSI Designs. (This was
Ramachandra's second time as a TEXPO winner--in 1996
he received the $2,000 Canadian Microelectronics
Corporation International Travel Award.)
| Tony Stansby (left),
Executive Director, SMC, presenting the 1997 SMC
Industrial Collaboration Award to Ramachandra Achar
(right). |
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