Competition Winners

2006/07 ICE Yorkshire and Humber Papers Competition

Congratulations go to Sam Clarke for winning the 2006/07 ICE Yorkshire and Humber Papers Competition with a paper based on his final year project: "Optimal design of vertical drains in soft ground". As a regional winner, Sam will now be entered for the national competition.

2005 Corus/ SCI Awards for Structural Steelwork Design

Antony Macey, Robert Kettleborough and Mike Butler were said by judges to be "clear winners"and won first prize in the Corus/SCI Competition for the Undergraduate Design Awards for Structural Steelwork Design. The brief was to design an Olympic tennis stadium to seat 10,000 spectators in comfort, provide a sense of the occasion, and be suitable for future relocation.
The team undertook the work within one of their final year modules. A Sheffield team also won the prize last year.

Regional UK GRAD programme Poster Competition

PhD student, Stana Zivanovic, was awarded first prize by fellow students in a regional university poster competition organised by Yorkshire and North East Hub of the UK GRAD programme.
For the poster competition entitled, `Getting your message across, Presenting to the public´, Stana´s poster explained the problems associated with predicting vibrational motion on footbridges, and possible solutions with the aid of a cartoon character called Peddy.

British Geotechnical Association Cooling Prize

Keith Emmett has been awarded the Cooling Prize for a paper on his research on "Movement Of Soil And Groundwater Around Driven And CFA Piles In Layered Ground" The prize is is the most prestigious award for young geotechnical researchers in the UK and was won against stiff competition from finalists drawn from academia and industry.
He initially beat four other finalists to win first prize (£200) in the Yorkshire ICE Young Geotechnical Engineers Paper Presentation Competition before going on to win in the national competition.

Science, Engineering and Technology awards

Lucy Allan was short-listed for the Best Civil Engineering Student at the 2004 SET awards for her final year project on "Seismic Stability Analysis of Reclaimed Land". These Science, Engineering and Technology awards are the "Oscars" of British Science and Technology education, and only three students each year are short-listed for each category. Although Lucy was a runner-up in the SET awards, she was awarded the Babtie Prize at graduation in 2004 for her project.

Royal Academy of Engineering´s poster competition

The team of Harris Angelakopoulas, Edward Williams, Daniel Hurn and Andrew Lee beat off competition from 12 other teams of finalists in the Royal Academy of Engineering´s 2004 poster competition for engineering undergraduates. They designed an eco-friendly urban village for a declining urban area in Leeds. Their imaginative and ecologically friendly approach to the area´s redevelopment used ideas like water saving toilets, energy saving ventilation systems and office blocks using harvested rainwater

Concrete Society National Student Award

For the second time in four years, one of our students has won the Concrete Society National Student Award. Following on the success of Anna Tsartsari in 2001, HuiYing Zhu received the 2004 prize on 4 November for her report on "Use of waste glass in concrete". To put this prize in perspective, the competition is open to any student of concrete at undergraduate, MSc or postgraduate level at any UK University.