In the course, under the supervision of a professor or an engineer designated by the Department, students are assigned an engineering design mandate. They must produce a professional-quality report that generally includes a review of existing work, the definition and situation of the problem, the chosen solution method, the results obtained and a discussion. The project is closed with a poster presentation.

For the occasion, seven awards were given by the jury, which reported being very impressed with the quality of the projects.

1^st prize: $500, Marc-André Vaillancourt: High-tension detector circuit for an electric car.
2^nd prize: $300, Bonie Eugénie Jolène Akandas Ayenoue: Development of a toaster-oven controller for welding.
2^nd prize: $300, Alan Smeaton Morejon: Vector analyzer of microwave signals.
3^rd prize: $200, Marc Bonnier: Personal Internet connection via telephone modem.
3^rd prize: $200, Jimmy Bouzi: CATVAR optimization to minimize loss on electric networks.
3^rd prize: $200, Mame Aissatou Camara: Distance command of a water reservoir via Internet using a QNX platform.
3^rd prize: $200, Francis-Olivier Leblanc: Light cube controlled with a microcontroller.

Photo of the jury members (Jean-Guy Tremblay, Vice-President, Energy Sector Business Development, BPR; Julien Dallaire, Eng., Distribution and Order Specialist, BPR; Martin Rousselle, Eng., Director, Tests, Diagnostics, and New Product Introduction for the Image division at Matrox; Marc Tremblay, Eng., team leader, materials tests, for the Image Division, Matrox; Ghyslain Nadeau, Eng., Msc.A, Consultant, Cohésion Technologie), along with Course Instructor Christian O'Reilly and Course Co-ordinator Réjean Plamondon.