SET Student of the Year winners
15 Sep 2010
London – Winners of the 2010 Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year, have been announced at a 4 Sept ceremony in London’s Hilton Hotel.
Record numbers of entries were received from every major university in Europe, with 45 students were shortlisted in 15 different categories.
The SET Awards are organised by the Leadership Forum and sponsored by BP, Airbus, Anglo American, ARM Holdings, AstraZeneca, AWE, BCS, Bentley Motors, Laing O’Rourke, Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust, Kraft, Microsoft Research, Morgan Crucible and The National Physical Laboratory.
The 2010 winners were:
Best Biology & Biotechnology Student
Daniel O’Neill of Saarland for: Identification and Characterisation of GetF
Best Aeronautical Engineering Student
Alexey Likhoded of Bristol for: Vision Based Recovery of a Rotary Wing UAV
Best Chemical Engineering Student
Dyfan Williams of Manchester for: Detailed Design of CO2 Removal
Best Civil Engineering Student
Joseph Scurrah of Southampton for: Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Loads
Best Computational Science Student
Therese Bergendahl of Heriot-Watt for: Computational Investigation of Two-Photon Absorption
Best Environment & Earth Science Student
Owen Weller of Cambridge for: Structure of the Great Sumatran Fault Revealed.
Best Electronic Engineering Student
Steffi Sesuraj of Southampton for: Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of a Nano-Plasmonic back reflector
Best Food science, Technology & Nutrition Student
Tina Eggers of Reading for: Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Best Information Technology Student
Peter Calvert of Cambridge for: Parallelisation of Java for Graphics Processors
The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Award for the Best Maritime Technology Student
Helen Boffey of Oxford for: Modern Materials Solutions for the INclined Plan Boat Life at Foxton Locks
The Morgan Crucible Award for the Best Materials Student
Rowan Leary of Leeds for: InterPulse welding of titanium alloys
The Bentley Motors Award for the Best Mechanical Engineering Student
Karl Jones of Loughborough for: The Post-Local-Distortional Compressive Buckling Failure of Thin-Walled Steel Lipped Channel Sections
The AstraZeneca Award for the Best Pharmacology Student
Rebecca Barlow of Leeds for: Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Regulation
The National Physical Laboratory Award for the Best Physics Student
Neil Robinson of Exeter for: Trapping Electrons in Graphene using Electric Fields
The Leadership Forum Award for the Best Chemistry Student
Lauren Hatcher of Bath for: Crystallographic Investigation of Linkage Isomerism in Metastable Species
The Leadership Forum Award for the Best Mathematics Student
Natalie Keating of Strathclyde for: How do Droplets Evaporate?
Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year
Rebecca Barlow of Leeds for: Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Regulation
Lecturer of the Year
Dr Alan Bateson of the University of Leeds, who taught the SET Student of the Year
The awards initiative is supported and judged by BCS, the British Pharmacological Society, Institute of Food Research, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, Institute of Physics, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Engineering & Technology, Institution of Mathematics and its Applications, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London Mathematical Society, Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Institution of Naval Architects and Royal Society of Chemistry.
