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George Maximos
1st-time Dean's List Award Winner — 2021-2022 Electrical Engineering
About George
George is a third year electrical engineering student with a passion for electronics and telecommunications. Inspired by his courses, as well as his tutoring experience from high school, he shares his passion with others as a study group leader at Concordia.
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Scholarship
- Distinguished CEGEP Entrance Scholarship in ENCS
- Bank of Montreal Scholarship
Awards
- Third Place Award for Autonomous Hovercraft Design Project
Internships
- System Test Analyst at Genetec
His best study tip...
Get things done early. It is often very easy to push back on projects and assignments telling ourselves we still have two more weeks to go. Then more work piles up, and we end up with so many things to do that we do quickly and carelessly. Otherwise, we lose sleep to do our work diligently and overdose on caffein to stay awake in class. So my advice, which does not only apply for studies, is: use your time wisely and do not postpone what you must inevitably do.
His best experience so far...
My best experience so far in my two years of university has to be building an autonomous hovercraft for The Introductory Engineering Team Design Project course (ENGR 290). It was not an easy task to program the Arduino to work properly with all its sensors. We had a lot of challenges to overcome with regards to skirt design, stability and programming. Nonetheless, we have so many good memories as a team, and I believe this project taught us a lot. We learned not only about programming an Arduino and building a stable hovercraft, but also about designing, testing and reiterating. This cycle must happen over and over again for any project in engineering. All in all, I was very fortunate to be the team leader of an amazing team of six that all together won the third place award for the autonomous hovercraft design competition.
His favourite part about his program...
My favorite thing about electrical engineering is that we touch on a lot of different topics, all very interesting and stimulating. We are taught programming, data structures and computer architecture in some courses, while also learning about electronics, telecommunication, and high power systems in others just to name a few. This lead me to discover my interest in specific fields being mainly electronics as well as telecommunication. We are very fortunate to have some excellent professors at Concordia that really go in depth with the course material while sharing their interest and passion.
George's next big goal
My next big goal is to expand my knowledge about what I love, whether that be in electronics or telecommunications, through my internships. I cannot wait to put all my knowledge to good use by working in a design team that will push the limits of what can be done. I want to innovate and challenge myself to learn more and inspire others to do the same.