Under the guidance of a professor or engineer appointed by the Department, students are given an engineering design assignment. They are asked to produce a professional-quality report that generally includes a review of past work, the definition and situation of the problem, the chosen solution method, the results obtained and a discussion. The project concludes with a poster presentation.

1stprize: Adriana Houle
Project: Conception d'une technique d'optimisation du criblage de clones par “tissue array” (Design of a technique for optimizing clone screening by tissue array)

2nd prize: Adriel Munger
Project: Développement d'un tomographe optique pour la reconstruction 3D de l'anatomie d'une souris (Development of an optical tomographer for the 3D reconstruction of the anatomy of a mouse)

3rd prize: Lahsen Bouchouafa
Project: Réalisation d'un bras robotique identifiant deux objets et les déplaçant (Production of a robotic arm identifying and moving two objects)

From left to right: Patrick Fernet, Engineer, Director at Callicom International Associates, jury member; Marc Tremblay, Engineer, Team Leader, New-Product Introduction, Image Division, Matrox, jury member; Lahsen Bouchouafa (3rd prize for his project Réalisation d'un bras robotique identifiant deux objets et les déplaçant); Adriel Munger (2nd prize for his project Développement d'un tomographe optique pour la reconstruction 3D de l'anatomie d'une souris); Adriana Houle (1st prize for her project Conception d'une technique d'optimisation du criblage de clones par “tissue array”); Christian O'Reilly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Educational Evaluator and Lecturer; Réjean Plamondon, Professor, Course Co-ordinator and Educational Evaluator; Christian Cardinal, Professor and Educational Evaluator. Absent: Vitiello Patrick Jeanty, Engineer, Team Leader Telecom Engineering at BPR, Chair of the jury.

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank-you to the judges for participating.