Industry experts present awards to outstanding engineering students

Six Lancaster University engineering students have received Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) awards for their engineering projects.

The students were nominated for the Awards by Lancaster University’s Engineering department and are given annually to reward academic excellence. The awards were presented by Dr Martin Yates from Rolls Royce who is the Chairman of the IMechE Fluid Machinery Group at a presentation ceremony in Lancaster.

• Daniel Williamson - Project Prize for the most outstanding project in Mechanical Engineering: "Design and build of a small sample biaxial test-rig"
• Matt McDonnell - Mechanical Engineering, Best Project Certificate for the ‘Best Project:  "Design and Build a Robot that can Crawl and Swim Suitable for uses at Fukushima"
• Sam Herring - Mechatronic Engineering, Best Project Certificate for the ‘Best Project'  "Advanced Fire-fighting Robot for Fire Spread Prevention
• Jarred Minards - Nuclear Engineering, Best Project Certificate for the ‘Best Project’: "Design and feasibility for igniting and sustaining an atmospheric pressure microwave plasma using a TE01 mode"
• Ryan Skeats - Mechanical Engineering, Best Student Certificate: "Design of Porous Aluminium Structures for Hybrid Aluminium – Phase Change Material Passive Thermal Management Systems"
• Sam Mottershead - Mechatronic Engineering, Best Student Certificate: "Design and Implementation of a Pick and Place Robot Arm With Colour Recognition."

Professor George Aggidis is Professor and Head of Energy Engineering, a Fellow of the IMechE and board member of its Fluid Machinery Group.

Professor Aggidis said,

"I am delighted with the students’ success and the quality of the projects they presented indicating the depth and breadth of the engineering teaching at Lancaster, with its project-based focus, producing outstanding engineers with the ability to attract recognition by both industry and academia”.