Samtec Engineers are finalists for DesignCon 2022 Engineer of the Year Award

This award, which seeks to recognise the best of the best in engineering and new product advancements, is given out each year during the DesignCon event.

The award winner will be selected based on his or her leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking brought to design/test of chips, boards, or systems, with particular attention paid to areas of signal and power integrity.

Samtec has announced that two of the four finalists, Richard Mellitz and Scott McMorrow, are Samtec associates. Richard currently serves as Distinguished Engineer at Samtec, supporting interconnect signal integrity and industry standards. Scott is the Strategic Technologist for Samtec’s Signal Integrity Group.

The other finalists are Lambert (Bert) Simonovich, Founder, Lamsim Enterprises, and Steve Sandler, Founder, Picotest.com.

Members of the DesignCon management team chose finalists from the nominees, and the DesignCon and Design News communities have the opportunity to vote for the engineer who will receive the 2022 Award.

Nominees must be active members of the DesignCon community to be considered for this award.

The winner will be announced at DesignCon 2022 and provided with a $1,000 grant or scholarship to present to the educational institution of his or her choice.

Samtec’s Istvan Novak, Principal Signal and Power Integrity Engineer, won the 2020 DesignCon Engineer of the Year Award. Novak selected to donate his $1,000 grant to the Radio Club of the Technical University of Budapest.