ICT faculty awards promising students

Awards conferred during annual exhibition.

From left: Antonio Azzopardi, Jasmine Agius, Ian Cassar, faculty dean Ernest Cachia, Adrian Duca, Rebecca Zahra, Matthew Farrugia, Sean Caruana, and Tamara Caligari.
From left: Antonio Azzopardi, Jasmine Agius, Ian Cassar, faculty dean Ernest Cachia, Adrian Duca, Rebecca Zahra, Matthew Farrugia, Sean Caruana, and Tamara Caligari.

The university's ICT faculty recently held its awards ceremony, during its annual exhibition of 70 projects undertaken by the faculty's final year undergraduates.

The projects included topics in entertainment, graphics, communication, transport and routing, microchip design, system verification and modelling, security, data management, cloud-based technology, as well as assistive and social technologies.

There were also some novel cross-disciplinary projects extending to such fields as astronomy, health, and biometrics. Many projects developed solutions embracing the mobile perspective with implementation being carried out for mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.

The faculty awarded the best final year projects awards. Kyle Pullicino was awarded first place; Ian Cassar placed second and Daryll John Ellul came third.

An honourable mention was given to Tamara Caligari and Arron Debattista for the standard achieved.

The recipients of the Dean's Awards, academic year 2011/2012, were: Jasmine Agius, Ian Cassar, Antonio Azzopardi, Adrian Duca, Tamara Caligari, Matthew Farrugia, Sean Caruana, and Rebecca Zahra.

Vincent Emmanuel Farrugia won the 2012 Chamber of Engineers Award.