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Postgraduate Research Posters

Prizes and posters

Every year the faculty organises a full day of interactive competitions and workshops to celebrate and showcase the excellent work of its research students. Guest speakers from the Graduate School, the Faculty of Engineering and from industry (Prof Allan Jones, Head of R&D for E.On UK presented in 2012) provide an extra dimension to the morning’s sessions.

The showcase event starts a few weeks earlier with a research poster competition in each of the seven engineering research divisions. The top five entries from each division are then submitted to the faculty showcase event.

‘PhD madness’ is a dynamic and exciting part of the event with all poster finalists giving a strict, one minute presentation on their research to colleagues and staff who then vote for the best presentation.

After lunch students have the choice to attend a number of interactive workshops whilst academic members of staff judge the posters individually. Workshops include:

• Effective researchers –the secrets; a panel of postdoctoral researchers give advice
• Writing a thesis; common issues for students in the early stages of doctoral research
• The viva; an examiners perspective - an opportunity to discuss viva questions with a panel of examiners
• IP Clinic; how to protect Intellectual Property and the support available from the University
• Meet the journal editors; tips on how to get research ready for publication from a panel of journal editors
• A career in academia; preparing an effective academic CV and job application
• Life after a PhD; practical advice on how to start planning for the future

 

2013 prize winners

Research Quality Prize (£200 cheque and certificate) for the student poster that represents the highest quality research work:

James Claverley (Manufacturing research division) for his work on 'Three-dimensional characterisation of a novel vibrating tactile probe for micro-CMMS'.

Katerina Loizou (Process and Environmental research division) for her work on 'Parametric study of droplet formation on a microfluidic T junction'.

Runner up: Vanessa Fernandes (Materials, Mechanics and Structures research division) 'Multi-axial Mullins effect in EPDM subjected to complex strain histories'.

Research Impact Prize winner (£200 and certificate) for the student poster demonstrating the highest impact:

Marcus Jahn (Energy and Sustainability research division) for his work on 'Graphite anode for safer and lightweight future battery technology'.

Runners up: Kris Vernon (Energy and Sustainability research division) 'Pulsed LED for high magnification photography of two-phase flows' and Kanika Barman (Materials, Mechanics and Structures research division) 'Lifetime improvement of fan blade root through solid lubricant coating'.

Poster Presentation Prize (£200 and certificate) for the best presentation by popular vote at the PhD Madness event:

Marcus Jahn (Energy and Sustainability research division) for his work on 'Graphite anode for safer and lightweight future battery technology'.

Runner up: Genova Joseph (Process and Environmental research division) 'Improved dust dispersion models for surface quarries'.

EMESP Masters Prize Innovation Award 2012 nominee:

Chrismunder Hare (Manufacturing research division) for her work on 'Designing big data visualisations to enhance decision making for military and emergency services environments'.

The winners and runners up have been automatically entered in the Graduate School Research Showcase event on 14 June and the finalists’ posters will be displayed on the walls throughout the Faculty.

Other successes

Last year the winning team of the East Midlands heat of Engineering Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Engineering YES) were Nottingham engineers, The Apex team from the Efficient Fossil Energy Technologies Doctoral Training Centre (Orla Williams, Philip Jenkinson, Peter Beck, Navdeep Kahlon and Callum Hall). The team won the heat and the Peer Review prize.

Runner up and winner of the IET sponsored ‘Best elevator pitch’ prize was Nottingham team Cydex: Jose Salazar (science), Gabriel Choong (engineering), Bishan Meghani (engineering), Alpesh Thakker (medical and health sciences) and David Morou Besong (science).

Both teams attended the grand finale at Birmingham Science Park on 20 June 2012 and competed against the North West and West Midlands heat winners.