In 2010, University of Québec in Chicoutimi (UQAC) established the Masoud Farzaneh Award in honour of Professor Masoud Farzaneh, an internationally renowned researcher in the field of power transmission and distribution in cold climate regions, for his extraordinary accomplishments, which made UQAC a world leader in this domain.

The prize was awarded annually until 2017, and biennially thereafter, to recognize the achievements of an individual with an exceptional career path of more than 15 years in research and development, engineering, or innovation in the field of overhead power network engineering. Priority will be given to an individual whose work considers the effects of atmospheric icing. In the evaluation process, the following selection criteria are considered: importance and impact of research, originality, leadership, and quality of the nomination.

The 2026 Masoud Farzaneh Award ceremony will take place during the International Workshop on Atmospheric Icing of Structures (IWAIS 2026), which will be held in Japan in August 2026.