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03 September 2010

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IMarEST Undergraduate and Postgraduate Awards

The Stanley Gray Fellowship Award

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

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Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Donald Maxwell Award

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

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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."

Fugro GEOS Undergraduate Award

Fugro GEOS 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 Oceanography or Meteorology. Students must be UK residents.

The award is worth £500 and is awarded to the student submitting the best dissertation in applied oceanography, physical oceanography or meteorology. 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

IMarEST Stanley Gray Application Form
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Undergraduate Scholarships

The IMarEST grants up to 4 awards 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. Three of the awards are sponsored by ABS Europe and Castrol.

IMarEST Stanley Gray Application Form
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Armand Covell Scholarship

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.

IMarEST £50 Prizes

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.

Cadet Prizes

The IMarEST grants an award of £50 to the Cadet with the best overall performance from each of the following colleges: Warsash Maritime Centre, Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and South Tyneside College.

William Theodore Barker Prize

The IMarEST grants an award of £250 to candidates who are members of the Institute and who achieve the best results in the Class II Examination for the Certificate of Competency.

W W Mariner Memorial Prize

The IMarEST grants an award of £100 to candidates who are members of the Institute and achieve the best results in the Class I Examination for the Certificate of Competency.

John Blackburn Main Memorial Fund

The IMarEST has established the ‘John Blackburn Marin 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 Meomorial 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.