Prize: £12,000

The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) awards a single Stanley Gray Fellowship each year to a selected candidate judged to be of outstanding potential to enable a significant piece of work to be undertaken in an approved marine engineering/science/technology subject to Doctorate (PhD) or post-Doctorate level. The award is worth up to £12,000 over a 3-year period. The award is based upon a written submission and an interview conducted by a number of senior members of the Institute with expertise covering Marine Engineering, Marine Science and Technology.

Closing Date: Last working day of February each year.

Prize: Expenses paid trip to a shipyard abroad for 1 month

The IMarEST has established the ‘John Blackburn Main Award’ to support a student or students studying in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. The award will fund the student(s) to travel to the Far East for up to one month in order to gain valuable experience working in a ship yard, witnessing the construction of a vessel. Each student applicant is required to attend an interview at the university with a panel of lecturing staff and IMarEST representatives. The student is required to present, to the panel, a short presentation highlighting their undergraduate work and achievements and other relevant experience and to provide a statement of how a placement would augment their studies and improve the applicants professional and personal development.

Who was John Blackburn Main?
John Blackburn Main CEng FIMarEST was a member of the IMarEST for 49 years and a Fellow for 32 years. Throughout his lifelong career in the merchant marine he maintained a passionate interest in the education of future generations of marine engineers.To memorialise this passion his wife and family made a generous donation to the Institute to establish a Trust called the John Blackburn Main Memorial Fund. This Trust offers scholarships to aspiring marine engineers, scientists and technologists taking courses accredited by the Institute, to enable them to advance their professional careers.

Prize: £1,000

The Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) grants a single award per year to support final year students studying and demonstrating a commitment to Marine Engineering and/or Marine Technology. Students must be UK residents. The award is worth £1000 and is awarded to the student submitting the best dissertation in Marine Engineering or Marine Technology. The award is based on a written application form setting out details of the course and including an abstract written by the applicant about his/her final year dissertation. Shortlisted candidates will then be required to submit their full dissertation by the end of May of that same year for judging by an expert panel.

Closing Date: Last working day of February each year

Who was Donald Maxwell?
Donald Maxwell was the first Secretary and Director of BMEC (the predecessor organisation to the Society of Maritime Industries) when it was formed in 1966. Following his death in 1978, the ‘Donald Maxwell Award Fund’ was introduced with subsequent amended objects of ‘advancing the education of the public and to promote the study of and research in to maritime equipment and allied subjects and to publish the results thereof, by the provision of an annual prize to be awarded to the writer of the best essay on some aspect of marine equipment submitted by an individual of any nationality resident in the United Kingdom, who shall be under 30 years of age’.  In 1989 the funds were transferred to IMarEST for administration and in 2008 two new awards were created.  One was a prize of £1,000 for the best final year degree project from a UK resident student undertaking their study on a degree accredited by IMarEST and the second the AMSI Business Person of the Year in the field of marine science and technology."

Prize: £1,000

The IMarEST grants 1 award per year worth up to £1000 to the best student on an undergraduate course accredited by the Institute. The award is based upon a submission from the student and supervising tutor and judged by a panel of senior members of the Institute. Students applying for the award must be able to demonstrate a commitment to marine engineering, science or technology.

Closing Date: Last working day of February each year.

Download Undergraduate Scholarships Criteria and Guidance Notes

Download Undergraduate Scholarships Application Form

Prize: £1,000

The IMarEST grants one award of £1000 for the best student on the BEng (Hons) course in Marine Engineering at South Tyneside College. The applicant must be a member of the Institute.

Prize: £500

The Challenger Society for Marine Science (CSMS), the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) and the Society for Underwater technology (SUT) has a competitive award scheme to support students studying for a Bachelors degree in Marine Science or Technology at a UK University or College. The scheme is based on a single payment of up to £500 to the successful student. It is envisaged that one award will be presented each year.

Closing Date: Last working day of May each year.

Download Marine Science and Technology Criteria and Guidance Notes

Download Marine Science and Technology Application Form

Prize: £50

The IMarEST grants awards of £50 to the best student on any undergraduate course accredited by the Institute. All universities that apply will receive an award and it up to the discretion of the university to select the winning student.

Prize: £50

The IMarEST grants an award of £50 to the Cadet with the best overall performance from each of the following colleges:

• City of Glasgow College
• South Tyneside College
• Warsash Maritime Academy