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In April, The University of Western Australia's Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics recently hosted the annual Faculty Prizes Breakfast, honouring the brightest students for their successes within the 2014 academic year.

The event celebrates the hard work and exceptional achievements of our talented students and allows an opportunity for prize winners to meet with their donors and special guests. It was a pleasure to see so many people celebrating the hard work and outstanding achievements of our exceptional cohort of students.

The Faculty thanked Celeste Savanyo, a UWA engineering alumni and previous prize winner of the Western Power Prize, who spoke about her experiences and memories from her time studying at UWA. She recognised that being a prize winner gave acknowledgement of her achievements and abilities and went on to offer her advice to current student winners that they should treasure this accomplishment.

UWA Engineering Student, electrical engineering student, Clough Scholar and recipient of three prizes, Joel Valli also gave a speech on what the prizes mean from a current student perspective.

Prize recipients from Electrical Engineering are highlighted below:

Sheng Yang                   Engineers Australia Electrical College Derek Humpage Prize

Joel Valli                         Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Medal

Nikola Petranovic            Fluor Australia Prize in Electric Machines

Shenglong Yu                 Hyman S. Spigl Prize in Mathematical Methods

Sheng Yang                    IEEE PES WA Chapter Prize in Power System Analysis

Sahil Khubchandani         Institution of Engineering and Technology Prize in Communications Systems

Sahil Khubchandani         MRX Technologies Prize in Control Engineering

Sahil Khubchandani         MRX Technologies Prize in Digital and Embedded Systems

Sahil Khubchandani         Swan Contract Personnel Prize in Circuits and Electronic Systems

Nikola Petranovic             Tesla Prize and Medal in Electronic Materials and Devices

Emerson Brophy              Water Corporation Prize in Process Instrumentation and Control

Photos from the event are available online here .

The School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering would like to congratulate all prize recipients.

The Faculty would like to thank all our generous prize donors for their support and congratulate all the prize recipients.

A full list of prize winners and donors can be viewed in the Prizes Breakfast Program 2015.

Media references

Rose Nightingale (Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics)    (+61 8) 6488 7886

Clara Dodman (Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics)    (+61 8) 6488 5079