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Engineering @Stratheng www.strath.ac.uk/engineering @StrathEng Engineering Strathclyde Students Standing Out Issue 7, Autumn 2012 Student Success Continues at Prestigious Awards Ceremonies University Principal Knighted by the Queen NASA Astronauts Visit the Faculty Trophy for Strathclyde Formula Student Team [ Introduction ] Contents 02 Strathclyde Students Win Internship INTRODUCTION Opportunity of a Lifetime with BP Welcome from the Dean of Engineering 03 Student Success Welcome to the latest edition of Engineering Insight, which has a particular focus on some of the recent successes of our students. 15 Staff Success The Faculty of Engineering at Strathclyde has a strong and well established reputation for the quality of its education and for producing high-calibre graduates. This is something we are very proud of and we try to go the extra mile to 17 Outreach ensure that our students gain the most from their time at Strathclyde. Our students work hard to achieve excellent results and to be noticed by professional societies and industry and they are often rewarded for their work, in the 19 New Ventures form of awards, scholarships and industrial placements. 2012 has been a particularly successful year for our students, with several winning major prizes and awards both 24 Research/Knowledge Exchange nationally and internationally, against fierce competition. A team of Strathclyde undergraduate engineering students came out on top against 249 other teams, which included undergraduate and postgraduate students, to win this year’s 26 Successful Alumnus BP Ultimate Fieldtrip Competition. Another impressive success story is that of identical twins Carol and Claire Forsyth, who graduated together from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering in July 2012, achieving the highest final MEng degree averages ever in this Faculty Staff Department. Since graduating, they have gone on to win highly prestigious research scholarships from the Carnegie Faculty Manager Faculty Academic Development Officer Dr Gayle Wilson Gabrielle Weir Trust for the Universities of Scotland, to carry out research [email protected] [email protected] PhDs in Chemical and Process Engineering. Marketing Development Coordinator International Recruitment Advisor The success of our students is no surprise when our Annabel Dalgleish Christine Donald staff are also performing highly within their fields and [email protected] [email protected] being recognised at the very highest levels. This includes Faculty Administrative Assistant Dean’s Secretary the University Principal, Professor Sir Jim McDonald, Andrea Roy Susan Pawson/Mary Cunningham who has been awarded a knighthood in The Queen’s [email protected] [email protected] Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours. Professor Sir Jim is a [email protected] distinguished engineer, academic and businessman and Faculty Administrator (Research and Knowledge Exchange) remains an active researcher in the field of electrical power Carol Brady engineering. [email protected] This edition of Engineering Insight highlights a selection of Faculty Development Officer Modern Apprentice (Administration) the national and international recognition that our students Caroline McGuire Chloe McGowan [email protected] [email protected] are achieving. I hope that the successes shown here will inspire the next generation of students Faculty of Engineering to study engineering, and staff in the University of Strathclyde Faculty of Engineering at Strathclyde Room 5.25 look forward to welcoming many of Royal College Building them over the coming years. 204 George Street Glasgow G1 1XW t: +44 (0)141 548 2749 e: [email protected] Professor Scott MacGregor twitter: @StrathEng Dean, Faculty of Engineering Web: www.strath.ac.uk/engineering The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. 01 engineering insight [ Autumn 2012 - Issue 07 ] [ Strathclyde Students Win Internship Opportunity of a Lifetime with BP ] Strathclyde Students Win Internship Opportunity of a Lifetime with BP team of undergraduate students A from the Faculty of Engineering has given their careers a boost by winning this year’s BP Ultimate Fieldtrip Competition. The team, known as ‘Aspire’, came first in the nationwide challenge after impressing the judges with their innovative solution to a problem set by BP. Tasked with outlining how they would make a BP refinery CO2 neutral by 2030, the competition was judged not just on technical content but also presentation skills and teamwork. The teams, having already presented their proposal during the semi-finals, had the chance to present their ideas in a succinct manner to staff from BP as well as field a 20 minute question and answer session from the likes of BP’s Chief Scientist Ellen Williams at the Royal Institution- based final. The teams each had two BP mentors who gave eight hours of their time to help prepare the pitches. Aspire’s mentors were Roger Skinner and Susan Shaw. Aspire’s proposal focused on the idea of capturing CO2 produced during The winning Strathclyde team, Aspire the refining process, then using algae Caption in photo-bioreactors to turn it into hydrogen and biomass that can then coincided with exams for most of them - surprise to win, but also a huge honour. be turned into biofuels or used in bio- in fact several had exams scheduled for We can’t wait to start our internship.” product manufacturing. The Aspire the same day. proposal also included wind turbines The awards ceremony took place at to provide electricity, and a community Aspire’s three members – Simonas the Royal Institution of Great Britain eco-park. As well as providing a system Stilius from the Department of in London. It was compered by Dr for carbon capture, they also hoped Mechanical and Aerospace Kevin Fong, TV and radio presenter, to sell the algal biomass at a profit – Engineering, and Guy Drori and Edward newspaper columnist and honorary intending to use it in biofuels as well as Kay from the Department of Naval senior lecturer in physiology at in pharmaceuticals. Architecture and Marine Engineering University College, London. – were rewarded with a six-week paid Aspire beat two other finalists to the internship in Trinidad and Tobago and Almost 250 teams entered this year’s big prize. Both runner-up teams were the Gulf of Mexico. competition, which is the third the oil from Imperial College, London. All the giant has run. The three finalist teams students spent six months on their “We’re still in a state of shock,” said were chosen from 45 entries - more than projects, fitting in the work around their Stilius. “The Ultimate Field Trip has a twice as many as last year. Each team university courses. The build-up to the reputation for being the toughest test for had to design a poster and produce a Ultimate Field Trip grand final event STEM students in the UK, so it really is a four-minute film about their proposal. [ Autumn 2012 - Issue 07 ] 02 [ Student Success ] Student Success Chemical and Process Engineering Twins Win Prestigious Carnegie PhD Scholarships dentical twins have gained Masters Carol and Claire on their graduation day at Strathclyde Idegrees with distinction from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering (CPE) and have achieved the highest final MEng degree averages ever from the Department. Carol and Claire Forsyth, 22, celebrated their double success in Chemical Engineering and are also set to receive prizes for coming joint top of their class. They have also won highly prestigious research scholarships from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, to carry out research PhDs in Chemical and Process Engineering. The girls were awarded two out of only 14 Carnegie PhD Scholarships covering all academic disciplines across the whole of Scotland. Claire’s research will be on the flow behaviour of complex mixtures of solids and liquids, with relevance across a wide range of applications from food processing, particle transport and reactors in chemical engineering, to how geological materials like rocks and magma respond to force. She will work with Dr Mark Haw and Dr Leo Lue in CPE, and collaborate with Dr David Pritchard in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Claire and Carol are both ‘alumni’ Carol’s project, supervised by Dr Jan “For a student to win a Carnegie PhD of CPE’s Summer Research Project Sefcik in CPE, focuses on how solid award is prestigious enough,” said CPE’s scheme, which encourages research crystals form from molecular solutions. Director of Teaching Dr Mark Haw, “but for skills and interests in undergraduates Important in industries ranging from two students in one Department to win in by running research internships each pharmaceuticals to foods, understanding the same year is truly fantastic!” summer. Recent years have seen an and controlling the crystal ‘nucleation’ expansion from one or two projects per process remains a fundamental scientific year to around 10, funded by diverse question as well as a major practical organisations including Nuffield, EPSRC, challenge. Carol will develop and use IChemE, Carnegie, Conoco Phillips advanced optical methods to measure Carol and Claire have each received and the University’s Strathclyde Interns and understand how nucleation several prizes for academic achievement scheme. The Carnegie PhD awards, happens, and how to better control during their degree and secured which pay student fees, stipend,
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