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Awards for Excellence

Previous Winners

The EICTA presents Awards for Excellence annually to individuals and groups in varying categories and to students from the four tertiary institutions which provide training in electronic engineering in Adelaide. Awards for Excellence have been presented to the South Australian Electronics Industry since 1984.

Full details of the 2007 winners can be found by clicking here.

The 2006 Awards, held Friday 3rd November

Tony Stevens of Ellex Medical was the winner of the Telstra $10,000 Engineering Excellence Award. Ellex were able to create and deliver a world class product within 12 months whilst achieving cost, performance and quality objectives.

Integrated Electronic Solutions (now Hendon Semiconductors), tool out the prestigious Gold Cup, for their Solar Powered Light Emitting Diode (led) Controller and Boost Regulator Integrated Circuit.

Quest Retail Technology won the Export Excellence Award. Quest is a 100% Australian owned company and  is the largest developer and manufacturer of Point of Sale (POS) systems in Australia with over 40,000 POS terminals installed throughout 20 countries.

Anthony Kittel, Managing Director of Redarc Electronics won the Legend Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award, for his research, design and manufacture of a range of electronic voltage converters, inverters, power supplies, battery chargers, electrics brake products and associated automotive products for the transportation industry.

The Award for Service to the Electronics Industry was won by Paragon Advisory. They were judged best Service Provider for the high standard of customer service they provide in servicing high tech companies with specialised requirements.

Jason Turner from Redarc and David Blockow from Tenix Defence were awarded joint Advertiser Electronics Graduates of the Year. Jason has been working at Redarc for less than 12 months after graduating from Flinders University with a Computer Systems Engineering degree.

David Blockow has shone in the area of tracking systems in his role as Graduate Engineer at Tenix Defence. David joined Tenix after completing a Bachelor of Maths and Computer Science degree at Adelaide University almost three years ago.

The 2005 Awards, held Friday 28 October

Codan, who took out the prestigious Gold Cup Award, for their 2110 Manpack Transceiver

Mark Pfitzner and his team at i-SiTE 3D Laser were the winners of the Telstra $10,000 Engineering Excellence Award was for their 4400 advanced survey instrument

Quest Retail Technology took out the Export Excellence Award

Fiberbyte won the Legend Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award, for their USB in-synch product range, which allows desktop and laptop PC’s to synchronously control a system of distributed devices.

The Award for Service to the Electronics Industry was won by Dedicated Systems Australia, for their high standard of customer service.

The inaugural Advertiser & Soanar Electronics Engineer Graduate of the Year was jointly won by Chris Swan from Quest Retail Technology, and Mark Van Den Broeke from Clipsal Integrated Systems

The 2004 Awards, held Wednesday 27 October

Gold Cup for Excellence in Innovation and Commercialisation:
Soniclean Pty Ltd - Bench Top Ultrasonic Cleansers - Julian Smith

The Telstra-$10,000 Engineering Excellence Award:
Fiberbyte Pty Ltd - The USB Technology Team - Dr Peter Foster, Clive Goldsmith, Patrick Klovekorn, Malcolm Ballinger & Nick Vlasenko

The Legend Performance Technology- $5,000 Engrepreneurship Award:
Microbric Pty Ltd - Microbric - Brenton O'Brien

The Export Excellence Award:
Imagination Entertainment - DVD Games - Sarah Abbott

The Award for Service to the Electronics Industry:
Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd - Ian Wallis

Student Awards:

Vernon Collins - University of South Australia - ‘Sun Dazzel Warning System’
James Errington - The University of Adelaide - ‘Robotic Transducers’
Arash Badiei - Flinders University - ‘Multivariate Autoregressive Analysis of EEG for Epilepsy Research’
Nathan Kuchel - Regency Institute of TAFE - ‘Portable Battery Charge/Discharge Unit for NICAD, Ni-MH and SLA Batteries’
Douglas Thompson and Graham Olive - Torrens Valley TAFE - ‘Robotic ARM’

For full details on all the winning projects for 2004, click here

The 2003 Awards

The winners of the 2003 Excellence Awards were announced
and the awards be presented by Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr
Robin Batterham at the 2003 Annual Dinner on 16 October 2003

Winners: 2003 Awards for Excellence:

1. Gold Cup for Excellence in Innovation and Commercialisation:
   Institute for Telecommunications Research at The University of South Australia
2. Telstra-$10,000 Engineering Excellence Award:
   'The Design Team' at Advanced Rapid Robotic Manufacturing
3. The Export Excellence Award
   Atmospheric Radar Pty Ltd

2003 Student Awards

An Award of $1,000 is made for outstanding work in the 'Final Year
Project' to one student of Electronic Engineering at each of:

• Adelaide University - Voon Siong Wong
• Flinders University - David Quinn and Martin Crotty
• Regency TAFE - Martin Irvine
• Torrens Valley TAFE - Mark Seaborn
• University of South Australia - Elisia Cavuoto

The Student Achievement Awards in 2003 are sponsored by:

• Braemac (SA) Pty Ltd
• K D Fisher & Co Pty Ltd
• Legend Performance Technology
• Soanar Electronics
• Tytronics Pty Ltd

About the Awards

• The GOLD CUP Award for Excellence in Engineering and Commercialisation.
  A perpetual trophy, awarded since 1984 to the company that, measured by specified criteria, performs best overall in taking an innovative idea, successfully through the product development and manufacturing processes and on to success in national and global markets.
• The Telstra-$10,000 Award for Engineering Excellence.
  Awarded to the designer who conceives the years best innovative idea and develops it to 'proof-of-concept', measured by specified criteria.
• The Export Excellence Award for Excellent Export Performance.
  For the company, measured by specified criteria, that performs best in the continuous development of existing global markets and development of new export markets

Awards History:

To identify and reward excellence, the Electronics and ICT Association and its predecessing companies have made awards for excellence since 1984.

The Electronics and ICT Association (EICTA) believes that excellent performance by individuals and groups of individuals (companies) should be identified, rewarded and publicly applauded.

EICTA believes that excellence must be present at both the individual and the corporate level:

• Individual performance in the creation of an innovative idea
  and the engineering of the idea to ‘proof of concept’ stage.
• Total company performance in the commercialisation of the idea
  into a product, process or service which produces a profitable return to the company.

2002 Award Winners:

Gold Cup for 2002:
Advanced Rapid Robotic Manufacturing Pty Ltd

Telstra-$7,500 Engineering Excellence Award:
Bruce Johnson - Atmospheric Radar Systems

Export Excellence Award:
Advanced Rapid Robotic Manufacturing Pty Ltd

Previous Winners:

The Gold Cup: The 2001 winner of the GOLD CUP or Excellence in Engineering and Commercialisation, was Quest Electronics Pty Ltd. The Gold Cup was won in 2000 by Minelab Electronics. The 1999 winner of the Gold Cup was Gemplus TAG Australia. Past winners include Codan (twice) and Vision Systems (twice).

The Export Excellence Award for 2001 was presented to Tytronics Pty Ltd for their range of electronic modules for control and safety management of gas ignition systems. The 2000 Export Excellence Award was presented to Codan for their range of satellite transceivers, which produced more than 50% increase in export in the previous year. The 1999 Export Award winner was Quest Electronics Pty Ltd for their Point-of-Sale Terminal Systems for installation in food and entertainment venues. These terminals provide a programmed key for each product, which prices, measures and records the sale of each item. The data collected is used for accounting, re-ordering and planning for re-supply.

The Individual Excellence Award sponsored by Telstra was shared in 2001 by a design engineering team from BAE Systems, headed by Michael Clovis

Previous winners of the Individual Excellence Award, include Andrew Beaumont Smith, then a Ph.D. student at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Adelaide University. His winning project was the design of a single VLSI chip design, commissioned by Avalon Systems Pty Ltd, a specialist in surveillance system design.