Past Winners

Past Winners

Winner 2014

Gastón E. Pérez from the National Technical University in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires).  Honourable mention was made of Ekaterina Auerbach from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.  Read more about their entries in the results announcement.

Previous Winners

• 2013: Chenchen Li from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.  Runners-up: Ezdeen Elghannai (2nd) and Ming Chen (3rd) from the ElectroScience Laboratory within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University, USA.
• 2012: Richard Pierce from the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Honourable mention was made of Tresor Diakiese from the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium.

• 2011: Joan Gemio Valero from the Antenna and Microwave Systems Group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Honourable mention was made of Miguel Sossouhounto from the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium.
• 2010: Christopher Thajudeen from the Center for Advanced Communications, College of Engineering, Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA. Honourable mention was made of Jacob Adams from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, USA.
• 2009: Simone Ledda from the Electronic and Telecommunications Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy. Honourable mention was made of Markus Lehner (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg and EADS Military Air Systems [training company], Germany), Bennie Jacobs (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Gideon Wiid (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).
• 2008: Markus Birk, Stephan Werker and Jens Holzapfel from the High Frequency Laboratory at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.  Special mention awards were made to Shaun Walker (University of Kansas-Missouri City, USA) and Yijun Zhou (Ohio State University, USA).
• 2007: Brad Kramer from Ohio State University, USA. Special mention awards were presented to Kichul Kim (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA), Gideon Wiid (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Taeyoung Yang (Virginia Tech, USA).
• 2006: Michael Buck from Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.The Educational Institute Prize has been awarded to Prof Jim Breakall (Antenna & Radio Engineering Lab), Pennsylvania State University, USA.
• 2005: S. J. Marais from The University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• 2004: Laura Ollino and Luca Manetta from Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
• 2003: Lester Low from Kent University, England.