Frédéric Sirois affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering, receives a prize of $ 2,000 for his thesis entitled "Modélisation de la caractéristique E-J des supraconducteurs à haute température critique". The work of Mr. Sirois was supervised by Professor Guy Olivier and Julian Cave, researcher at IREQ. Note that Mr. Sirois completed his studies in 3 years and 8 months, with a perfect score of 4.0 / 4.0.

Each year, the student who has written the best PhD thesis is recognized during the institution's graduation ceremony.