The University of Malta’s Faculty of ICT recently held its award ceremony during its annual exhibition of some 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 best Final Year Projects Awards were as follows:

First place Kyle Pullicino, second place Ian Cassar and third place Daryll John Ellul.

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

The recipients of the Dean’s Awards were (academic year 2011-2) Jasmine Agius, Ian Cassar, Antonio Azzopardi, Adrian Duca, Tamara Caligari, Matthew Farrugia, Sean Caruana and Rebecca Zahra

Chamber of Engineers Award 2012: Vincent Emmanuel Farrugia