Gilles Dennler, from the Department of Engineering Physics, receives a prize of $ 2 000 for his thesis entitled PECVD silicon compounds on polymers: study of the first phase of the deposit. His work was supervised by Professor Michael J. Wertheimer and Yvan Segui, research director at CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier in France. Mr. Dennler completed his studies in three years and were conducted under a joint supervision between Quebec and France.