Prizes - Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

Prizes awarded by the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

First Year Prizes / Second Year Prizes / Final Year Prizes

Automotive Systems Engineering Prizes
Two prizes (funded by Ford Motor Company) to be awarded annually for best project presentation (£50) and best project report (£100).

British Aerospace Prizes
Two prizes, each to the value of £150 are awarded to students on the M.Eng programme in Systems Engineering. One prize is awarded to the student with the highest overall performance and one prize to the student with the most improved overall performance.

The Churchill Prize
A prize to the value of £300 to be awarded annually to the student team producing the best Aircraft Design Project (module TTC 008).

Mr Churchill is a former student of the University who wanted to support a prize relating to Aeronautical Engineering or Science or a related discipline.

The Geoffrey Wilde Prize
A prize to the value of £200 to be awarded to the student producing the best Gas Turbine Design Project.

Geoff Wilde is an eminent aeronautical engine designer who ended his career at Rolls-Royce Derby as Director of Advanced Engineering. He helped with final year Gas Turbine Design as an Industrial Professor for many years and the students found him inspirational. Sadly his poor health precludes him from continuing this work and the Prize, funded by the Department, is a recognition of his irreplaceable services to the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering.

John S Webber Memorial Prize
A prize of up to £60 is awarded to the student or group of students making the most valuable contribution to the Part C Vehicle Design (module TTC006).

John Webber was a Reader in Automotive Engineering who joined the Department on 2nd December 1963 following 10 years as head of the mechanical sciences department of the research division of Ferodo Ltd Stockport. He sadly died on 12th April 1973 aged 57.

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First Year Prize

Loughborough University Development Trust Prize
A prize to the value of £50, to be awarded annually to an exceptional 1st year student who the department judges to have made the most worthwhile contribution towards groupwork in either TTA206 or TTA207.

This prize is funded through the The Development Trust. The Trust exists to support the University in giving students an outstanding quality of educational experience. It raises funds from former students and other friends of the University. Their generosity has made this prize possible.

Second Year Prize

Loughborough University Development Trust Prize
A prize to the value of £75, to be awarded annually to an exceptional 2nd year student, who the department judges to have made the most worthwhile contribution towards groupwork in the joint Aero/Auto module.

This prize is funded through the The Development Trust. The Trust exists to support the University in giving students an outstanding quality of educational experience. It raises funds from former students and other friends of the University. Their generosity has made this prize possible.

Final Year Prizes

BAE Systems Prize for Aerospace Engineering
A prize to the value of £100 plus a certificate, to be awarded annually to the student graduating in Aerospace Engineering who produced the best personal project at either BEng or MEng.

Ford Motor Company Prize
A prize to the value of £150 is awarded to the best all-round final year student in Automotive Engineering.

Royal Aeronautical Society Prize
A prize to the value of £100 is awarded to the best all-round final year Aeronautical Engineering student.

Jonathan Young Memorial Prize
A prize to the value of £200 is awarded to the student submitting the best applied final year project on the degree programme in Automotive Engineering.

Jonathan Young was an Automotive Engineering undergraduate at the University who undertook a final year project which involved taking measurements from an electric go-cart. He stayed in the University's Electric Vehicle lab following his graduation to carry on working on the electric kart. In August 1995 he won the Top Gear Challenge Cup at the international electric vehicle meeting at Mallory Park. He died tragically prior to starting a job in industry. This prize in funded jointly by his father and the University.

The W.O. Bentley Prize for Excellence in Automotive Engineering (MEng) to the value of £100 to be awarded to the final year student with the best Part D exam results on the MEng Automotive Engineering programme.

The W.O. Bentley Prize for Excellence in Automotive Engineering (BEng) to the value of £100 to be awarded to the final year student with the best Part C exam results on the BEng Automotive Engineering programme.

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