Filipe Barradas and Luís Nunes, PhD students under the supervision of Pedro Lavrador, Telmo Cunha, Pedro Cabral and José Carlos Pedro were awarded the 1st prize in the international competition for students in Power Amplifier Linearization through Digital Pre-distortion (DPD) that took place at the 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2014) in Tampa, Florida, USA, June 1-6, 2014