MTT-S Award 

2018 Award Recipient and Description

Microwave Career AwardRecognizes a career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of microwave theory and techniques.

Eliot D. Cohen

Distinguished Service Award Recognizes an individual who has given outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of the MTT S.

Manfred J. Schindler 

Distinguished Educator Award Recognizes a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science who best exemplifies the special human qualities of Fred Rosenbaum, who considered teaching a high calling and demonstrated his dedication to the Society through tireless service.

Alwyn Seeds and Ching-Kuang (Clive) Tzuang

Microwave Pioneer Award

Recognizes an individual or team, not exceeding three persons, having made outstanding pioneering technical contributions that advance microwave theory and techniques, which are described in an archival paper published at least 20 years prior to the year of the award.

Robert J. Mattauch

Microwave Application Award Recognizes an individual or team of no more than five individuals for an outstanding application of microwave theory and techniques, which has been reduced to practice nominally 10 years before the award.

Peter H. Siegel

Outstanding Young Engineer Award Recognizes an outstanding young MTT-S member who has distinguished him/herself through achievement(s), which may be technical (within the MTT-S Field of Interest), may be exemplary service to the MTT-S, or may be acombination of both.

Simone Bastioli

Changzhi Li 

Nils Pohl 

Maciej Wojnowski 

Microwave PrizeRecognizes, on an annual basis, the most significant contribution by a published paper to the field of interest of the MTT-S. Committeedeliberation begins on January 1, and considers papers published in the preceding year.  

Eric J. Naglich and Andrew C. Guyette, for their paper “Frequency-Selective Limiters Utilizing Contiguous-Channel Double Multiplexer Topology,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 2871-2882 Sept. 2016.

MWCL “Tatsuo Itoh” Award

Recognizes, on an annual basis, the most significant contribution in a paper published in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component. Letters. Committeedeliberation begins on January 1, and considers papers published in the preceding year.  

Daniel J. Shepphard, Jeffrey Powell, and Steve C. Cripps, for their paper "An Efficient Broadband Reconfigurable Power Amplifier Using Active Load Modulation," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 443-445, June 2016.

T-TST Best Paper Award

Recognizes, on an annual basis, the most significant contribution in a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. Committee deliberation begins on January 1, and considers papers published in the preceding year.  

R. Risacher, R. Gusten, J. Stutzki, H. Hubers, D. Buchel, U. Graf, S. Heyminck, C. Honingh, K. Jacobs, B. Klein, T. Klein, C. Leinz, P. Putz, N. Reyes, L. Ricken, H. Wunsch, P. Fusco, S. Rosner, for their paper “First Supra-THz Heterodyne Array Receivers for Astronomy with the SOFIA Observatory,” IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 199-211, March 2016

IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award

Recognizes, on an annual basis, the most significant contribution in a paper published in the IEEE Microwave Magazine. Committeedeliberation begins on January 1, and considers papers published in the preceding year.  

Alessandro Cidronali, Stefano Maddio, Marco Passafiume, and Gianfranco Manes, for their paper titled “Car Talk: Technologies for Vehicle-to-Roadside Communications.” IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 17, Issue 11, pp.  November 2016

N.W. Cox Award

Recognizes an individual who has given exemplary service to the Society in a spirit of selfless dedication and cooperation. The award is given in memory of N. Walter Cox, longstanding MTT-S volunteer.

Bela Szendrenyi