The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) has been invited to provide three judges for the Lloyd's Register Best Maritime Technology Student, one of 17 SET Awards (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year) made annually.
This year's finalists are:
- Sally Denchfield of the University of Southampton for The effect of abnormally shaped waves in tidal races on yachts and small craft
- Michael Fortemps of the University of Strathclyde for Initial design of megayachts using a case-base approach
- John Morris of Newcastle University for The flywheel ship
"We are delighted to have been asked for the sixth year running to provide judges for the the SET Awards, encouraging students to take up a career in the maritime industry in any one of its numerous guises is crucial to the economy of the country, and indeed the world," says Keith Read CBE, Chief Executive of IMarEST.
"These are Britain's most important awards for science and technology undergraduates. This year our judges are Francis Udom, Project Engineer at Lloyd's Register - who are once again sponsoring the Award; Phil Sayer, Lecturer at Strathclyde University; and Roy Quilliam, Technical Director of BMT DSL. I know they will have a challenging and enthralling time; the level of entries for the award is always of an incredibly high standard. Judging will culminate in interviews that take place here at IMarEST headquarters on Thursday 21 September 2006, with the Awards Ceremony taking place that evening at the Royal Courts of Justice."
Last year's winner of The Lloyd's Register Award for the Best Maritime Technology Student was Jonathan Logan of the University of Glasgow/Strathclyde who took as his topic: The influence of unsteady effects on the resistance of a single scull.
About the Awards
The Award is open to students who, at the time of entry, are on a first-degree course at a university located within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (students do not have to be in the final year of their course to be entered). Students graduating in the summer of 2006 are eligible to enter the competition but post-graduate students are not. Part-time students, and foundation course students, may not be entered. There are no restrictions on gender, age or nationality. Students can only be entered by their lecturers, students who do not have the endorsement of a lecturer may not enter the contest directly. Lecturers should only nominate students who will receive, or are expected to receive, a first class degree.
Further information on the Awards, for which entry has now closed, is available at www.setawards.org/about.vc
