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Ali Attaran, a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Dr. Sazzadur Chowdhury, has become the runner-up in a national competition held during the 2011 CMC Microsystems Annual Symposium in Gatineau, Québec on October 19-20, 2011.

Ali competed for the $3,500 Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC Award for Industrial Collaboration with his research project titled “A 77 GHz Micromachined Rotman Lens for an Automotive Radar”.

Ali’s project attracted the attention of both academia and industry delegates as he presented the prototype of the world’s smallest micro-fabricated Rotman lens working at 77 GHz. The lens forms an integral part of an automotive collision avoidance radar that is under development in the MEMS lab in theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Windsor.

Walid Abdul Hadi, a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Muscedere, has published a paper in the Journal of Solid State Communications (Volume 151, Issue 12, June 2011, Pages 874-878).

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