Research Showcase Open Day
February 2007
The event took place in the Renold Building on the Sackville Street Campus and it provided an opportunity for the School’s 300 research students to present and expose their research to their colleagues, academic staff and visiting industrial guests.
The event was a massive success with over 150 people attending, 54 students giving presentations and 66 students displaying posters. The posters and presentations reflected the diverse research being undertaken in the School including aerospace engineering, energy, environment and climate change, extreme loading and design, nuclear engineering and manufacturing and laser processing.
The event was efficiently organised by a Committee of PGR research students, Paul Wilde as Chairman, Jonathan Chippendall, Ian Cunningham, James Myers and Karl Jamieson with the support of Dr Caesar Merrifield (Graduate Chairman) and the School Administrators. On the event itself Postdoctoral Research Assistants volunteered their time to Chair and judge the presentation sessions awarding first, second and third prizes to the top students. Prize winners included Rizwan Choudhry, Kenneth Gill and Amr ElBanhawy for their exceptional presentations and also Adrian Covill, Jifeng Yuan, Abdelhamid Naid and Shakeel Safdar for their outstanding posters.
The showcase was a huge accomplishment for the School and its research students and many commented how the event brought the large school together. Is also highlighted the significant amount of research achievements the school is continuing to make to the Engineering sector. Many academic staff congratulated the student committee and praised their organisation and enthusiasm that was brought to the event.