Throught the years the department has been recognised with a number of awards:
The Ambrose Fleming Premium by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK, September 2000, for the paper: I. Grech, J. Micallef, T. Vladimirova, "The Silicon Cochlea and its Adaptation to Spatial Localization", IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems, vol. 146, pp. 70-76, 1999.