On November 11, 2009, some of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science’s brightest undergraduates were honoured at the annual Dean’s Awards.

The awards ceremony was then held in the Normand D. Hébert conference room in the EV building, and was MCed by Christopher Trueman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the Faculty of Engineering.

The first award of the evening was the Concordia Award of Distinction in Engineering, presented by Dean Robin Drew to Joaquim Frazao (pictured at left with Dean Drew), an ENCS alumnus and a founder and vice-president of Mechtronix, a Montreal-based company that has become the third largest manufacturer of flight simulators in the world. Frazao delivered an engaging speech full of information about the evolution of his company and warmly expressed his gratitude at receiving the award from his “engineering family.”

Undergraduate students from the three tiers of the Dean’s List of Excellence were then presented with their awards before Nancy Acemian from the General Studies Unit was presented with the 2008-09 Teaching Excellence Award.

The other awards of the night were the Normand D. Hébert Engineering Scholarship, The Memorial Endowment Entrance Scholarship, The Groupe LGS Inc. Scholarships in Engineering, The Aaron M. Fish Scholarship of Excellence in Mechanical Engineering, Bourses d’études Hydro-Québec de l’université Concordia, The Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science Distinguished CEGEP Entrance Scholarship, Association des ingénieurs-conseils du Québec – AICQ, and the Leadership Excellence Awards.

For more about the Dean’s Awards, visit the ENCS website. For more photos, see the ENCS flickr site.

Posted November, 2009