The evaluation committee was made up of professors Luc Baron, Pierre Langlois and Grégory Patience, as well as Professor Jean Dansereau, Associate Dean of Academic and International Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies. 

The evaluation criteria were:

40% 
- Quality of scientific content (excellence in research);
- Originality;
- Relevance of the work to applications of interest to engineering.

30%
- Potential impact in the field of research;
- Communication of results (publications);
- Economic benefits.

30%
- Presentation quality of the thesis or dissertation;
- Academic record (cumulative average, length of studies);
- Candidate's aptitudes for a career in research.

For the 2012 year, the recipients are:

For doctoral dissertations:

Shulabh Gupta, in the doctoral program in electrical engineering, received a $2,000 award for his dissertation titled “Dispersion Engineered Real-Time Analog Signal Processing Components and Systems.” Mr, Gupta's work was supervised by Professor Christophe Caloz of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

An honourable mention was awarded to Basile Dufay for the quality of his doctoral dissertation titled “Optimisation d'un magnétomètre à haute sensibilité à base de magnéto-impédance géante (MIG).” Mr. Dufay wrote his dissertation under a joint arrangement between Polytechnique Montréal and Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France. His work was supervised by Professor David Ménard of the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal, and by Christophe Dolabdjian, professor, and Sébastien Saez, senior lecturer, at Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France.

A second honourable mention was awarded to Gabrielle Ébacher, in the doctoral program in civil engineering, for the quality of her doctoral dissertation titled “Évaluation du risque pour la santé publique associé à l'intrusion en réseau de distribution suite à une baisse de pression transitoire.” Ms. Ébacher's work was supervised by Professor Michèle Prévost and researcher Marie-Claude Besner of the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering.

For master's theses:

Amélie St-Georges-Robillard, in the master's program in biomedical engineering, received a $1,000 award for her thesis titled “Couches minces organiques riches en amines primaires par photo-polymérisation ultraviolette : caractérisation et applications biomédicales.” Ms. St-Georges-Robillard's work was supervised by Professors Michel R. Wertheimer, of the Department of Engineering Physics and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and Sophie Lerouge of École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS).

An honourable mention was awarded to Manuel Vonthron, the master's program in computer engineering, for the quality of his thesis titled “Plateforme pour le guidage de dispositifs thérapeutiques sub-millimétriques par IRM.” Mr. Vonthron's work was supervised by Professor Sylvain Martel of the Department of Computer Engineering.

We extend our heartiest congratulations to these new winners. The excellence of the work done by the best dissertations and theses recipients was recognized at the awards and bursaries ceremony on Thursday, April 4, 2013. We wish them all successful careers!