Prizes
Committee
P07-M2
Minutes of the Prizes Committee Meeting held
on Thursday 8 November 2007
Present: A D Bailey, Dr K
Gregory (Chair), K Hogan, Professor R C
F Jones,
Dr R E Kinna, Dr J Lawrence, Dr J Leaman, H Malik
Apologies: Dr D Gillingwater
In attendance: M
Ashby
07/14 Welcome to New Members
The
Chair welcomed new members to the Committee.
07/15 Minutes
The minutes of the
meeting of the Committee held on 22 February 2007 (P07-M1) were confirmed.
07/16 Matters Arising from the Minutes
07/16.1 Senate and Council Action
It was noted that Senate and Council had APPROVED:
a) the establishment of
the following prizes:
·
ABB
Engineering Services Prize – Chemical Engineering
·
AMEC
Shaping the Future Award – Chemical
Engineering
·
Arthur
Birley Memorial Prize – IPTME
·
Chemical
Sciences Merit Prize – Chemistry
·
·
·
Special
Library Association –
b) amendments to the
following prizes:
·
G V
Sibley Memorial Prize – SSES
·
Glaxo-Wellcome
Prize – Chemistry
·
Hannah
Community Prize
·
·
Sir
Robert Martin Faculty Prizes
·
·
T S
Shipman Prizes
·
Ursula
Lockley Travel Bursary
c) discontinuation of the
following prizes:
·
M J T
Smith Prize – Civil and Building
·
07/16.2 Chair's Action (2006/07 academic year)
a) The Committee ratified the action of the
Chair in recommending the establishment of the following prizes and noted
subsequent APPROVAL by Senate and Council:
·
Accenture
Prize – Aero & Auto
·
Ford
Final Year Automotive Engineering Prize – Aero & Auto Eng
·
Plant
and Equipment Manufacturers’ Award – Civil & Building Eng
·
Psychology
with Ergonomics Prize for Academic Excellence – Human Sciences
b) The Committee ratified
the action of the Chair in recommending amendments to the following prizes and noted
subsequent APPROVAL by Senate and Council:
·
BP
Chemicals Prize – Chemical
Engineering
·
Conoco
(
·
Dunn
& Wilson (Final Year Prize) – Information
Science
·
Dunn
& Wilson (Postgraduate Prize) – Information
Science
·
Esso Petroleum
Company Prize – Chemical
Engineering
·
H K
Suttle Prize – Chemical Engineering
·
IChemE
Book Prize – Chemical Engineering
·
J D
White Memorial Prizes – Information Science
·
Jack
Harris Prize – Chemical Engineering
·
John S
Webber Memorial Prize – Aero and
Auto Eng
·
Jonathan
Young Memorial Prize – Aero and
Auto Eng
·
Michael
Edwards Memorial Prize – Chemical
Engineering
·
School
Merit/IMechE Best Student Award –
c)
The
Committee ratified the action of the Chair in recommending the discontinuation
of the following prizes and noted subsequent APPROVAL by both Senate and
Council:
·
Finnings
·
Ford
Motor Company Prize – Aero and Auto
Eng
·
Polly
Woods Memorial Prize – Information
Science
·
W O
Bentley Prize for Excellence in Automotive Engineering (BEng) - Aero & Auto
·
W O
Bentley Prize for Excellence in Automotive Engineering (MEng) - Aero & Auto
d)
The Committee ratified the action of the Chair
in approving the appointment of the
following assessors until 31 July 2009 and noted subsequent APPROVAL by
Senate and Council:
Dr Ed Brown
(Department of Geography)
Dr Jessica
Lee (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences)
Professor
Bill Overton (Department of English and Drama)
Mr Paul
Wormold (Department of Design Technology)
T S Shipman and Hannah Community Prize
Hillary
McNeill (Community Member)
e) The Committee ratified the action of the Chair in approving the
reappointment of the following assessor until 31 July 2009 and noted subsequent
APPROVAL by the Academic Registrar on behalf of Senate and Council:
Faculty of Engineering
representative on the Assessor Panel
Mr Tony Sutton
f) The Committee ratified the action of the Chair and AGREED to recommend the establishment of the following prizes to Senate:
i) Department of Aeronautical
and Automotive Engineering and
Wolfson
Frederic Barnes Waldron Prize
A prize consisting of a certificate, a medal and £200 to be awarded
to the best final-year student on an IMechE accredited degree in the view of
the relevant programme board.
To be
eligible for consideration, students will also need to be IMechE Affiliate
members. The prize will be awarded to a student from the Department of
Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering in even years and to a student from the
Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in odd years.
ii)
Accounting and Financial Management ICAEW
Gold Prize
A prize to the value of £150 to be awarded to the BSc Accounting and Financial
Management final year student with the best academic performance in the view of
the programme board.
Banking, Finance and Management Gold Prize
A
prize to the value of £150 to be awarded to the BSc Banking, Finance and
Management final year student with the best academic performance in the view of
the programme board.
International Business Gold Prize
A prize to the value of
£150 to be awarded to the BSc International Business final year student with
the best academic performance in the view of the programme board.
Management Sciences Gold Prize
A prize to the
value of £150 to be awarded to the BSc Management Sciences final year student
with the best academic performance in the view of the programme board.
iii) Department of Information
Science
MSc Electronic Publishing
Prize (available in 2006/07 only)
A prize to the value of
£100 to be awarded to the MSc Electronic Publishing student with the highest
overall mark.
iv) IPTME
Tin Plate Workers Design Prize
A prize to the value of
£150 to be awarded to the final-year student with the best individual design
project in the view of the programme board.
v) Wolfson School of Mechanical
and Manufacturing Engineering
School Merit Prize
A prize to the value of
£100 and a certificate for the best Part B student on a Manufacturing
Engineering degree programme in the view of the programme board.
g) The Committee ratified
the action of the Chair and AGREED to recommend amendments to the following
prizes to Senate:
Department of
Chemistry
AstraZeneca
Poster Prizes
Existing wording:
Three prizes, one to the value of £100 and two to the value of £50, to be
awarded annually. The £100 prize will be awarded to the candidate who produces
the best poster presentation of their research project work as selected by a
panel consisting of representatives from AstraZeneca. The two £50 prizes will
be awarded to the second and third best poster presentations of their research
project work as selected by the panel.
Proposed wording (proposed change appears in bold):
Two prizes, each to
the value of £100, to be awarded annually to the candidates who produce the best poster presentations of their Part
C research projects as selected
by a panel consisting of representatives from AstraZeneca.
h) The Committee ratified
the action of the Chair and AGREED to recommend the discontinuation of the
following prizes to Senate:
British Aerospace Prizes
– Aero and Auto
Churchill Prize –
Aero and Auto
Rolls Royce Prize –
07/16.3 Chair's Action (2007/08 academic year)
The Committee ratified the action of the Chair
in approving the establishment of the following prizes:
E.ON Undergraduate
Final-Year Research Project Prizes
Up to five prizes to the value of £1,000 each may be awarded to registered
undergraduate students who have produced outstanding final-year research
projects during the 2007/08 academic year in the view of the assessor panel.
Nominated projects must be of general relevance to the issues of low carbon
energy demand, supply, low carbon energy technologies, including renewables,
and/or the transition towards a sustainable society.
Nominations will normally be sought during the Autumn Term and should be
submitted by members of the University’s staff using the Nomination Form (weblink to form). Forms
should be sent to Professor Dennis Loveday, Department of Civil and
Building Engineering in paper format or via email to D.L.Loveday@lboro.ac.uk.
E.ON Taught
Postgraduate Research Project Prizes
Up to five prizes to the value of £1,000 each may be awarded to registered
taught postgraduate students who have produced outstanding research projects
during the 2006/07 academic year in the view of the assessor panel. Nominated
projects must be of general relevance to the issues of low carbon energy
demand, supply, low carbon energy technologies, including renewables, and/or the
transition towards a sustainable society.
Nominations will normally be sought during the Autumn Term and should be
submitted by members of the University’s staff using the Nomination Form (weblink to form). Forms
should be sent to Professor Dennis Loveday, Department of Civil and
Building Engineering in paper format or via email to D.L.Loveday@lboro.ac.uk.
07/17 Membership
and Terms of Reference of the Committee
07/17.1 PC07-P17
Membership
The membership of the Committee was noted, and, in particular, the appointment
of members elected by Senate from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of
Social Sciences and Humanities, and two new members nominated by the
Students’ Union.
07/17.2 PC07-P18
Terms of Reference
It was noted that Senate had empowered the Committee to make awards itself,
rather than recommending them to Senate for approval. Prizes Committee would in
future be required to submit an annual report to Senate. This report could include
some or all of the following: notable new and discontinued prizes, total number
of prizes awarded, summary of expenditure and examples of excellent activities
which have been recognised during the year.
The Committee considered whether its terms of reference remained fit for purpose. In the light of Senate’s decision to delegate power to make awards to the Committee, it AGREED to recommend to Senate the following changes to its Terms of Reference to reflect this change (new text in bold):
2.
To
advise Senate upon any recommendation it may wish to make to Council fFurther to Statute XIII.6 (xvi) and Statute
XIV.6 (xvi) upon the purposes, conditions and value of any prizes that may
be and have been instituted, and subject to any conditions made by the
founders, to institute, amend or discontinue as appropriate awards detailed in
these Statutes on behalf of Senate and Council.
3.
(New section)
To approve on behalf of Senate and Council the appointment of assessors for
awards and recommendations of winners of these awards.
34. To
review and to report on an annual basis to
Senate, and to Council, on the uses to which University Prizes are or may be
put.
45. To publicise, promote and raise the awareness of prizes and to
encourage the submission of prize nominations and applications.
07/18 Loughborough
University Graduate
School Prize and
Loughborough University Graduate
School
PC07-P19
The Committee noted that only
three nominations had been received for the Loughborough University Graduate
School Prize and the Loughborough University Graduate School Progression Prize.
The Committee considered the future of the prizes, noting feedback from the
Faculty of Engineering Directorate and the Director of the
a) the
Loughborough University Graduate School Progression Prize should be
discontinued;
b) the
Loughborough University Graduate School Prize should be replaced with three
faculty prizes to the value of £250 each. The Loughborough University
Development Trust would be informed of the change but would not be asked for
additional money to increase the value of the prizes.
c) in addition to emailing all staff to promote the prizes, the Secretary should contact Master’s programme convenors via departmental administrators in September each year to request that they include the prizes as a standing item on their programme or review board agendas, whichever was more appropriate given the October deadline for the prizes.
07/19 Establishment of New Prizes
Following requests from departments, the Committee AGREED to the establishment of the following prizes:
07/19.1
PC07-P20
Rolls Royce Fuel Cell Prizes
Up to
three prizes to be awarded annually to undergraduate students with the best
final-year project reports in a field of relevance to their company business,
viz. any aspect of the materials, manufacturing, construction and
operation of solid oxide fuel cells, including their degradation. The first
prize will be worth £750, second prize £500 and third prize £250. Consolation
prizes worth £50 each may also be awarded for excellent projects that do not
make the top three places. The
judgment will be made by Rolls Royce Fuel Cell Prizes (RRFCP) on the basis of
quality and relevance.
07/19.2 Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering
PC07-P21
Rohde and Schwarz Prize
A prize of £250 to be awarded for the best final year individual
project of any Departmental BEng or MEng programme that is identifiably in the
area of RF or wireless communications. The judgment will be made by the
relevant programme board who may take into account comments from Rohde and
Schwarz.
07/20 Amendment to Existing Prize
Arising from 07/22 below, the Committee AGREED to the following amendment:
Graduate School
Three prizes, one
per faculty, each to the value of £400 may be awarded to full-time or part-time postgraduate research students who have progressed beyond the first in
the second or third year of their research student registration, for
outstanding academic performance and academic achievement.
07/21 Discontinuation of Prizes
PC07-P22
PC07-P23
Following requests from departments, and further to 07/18
above, the Committee AGREED to the discontinuation of the following prizes:
Avon Rubber plc Prize – IPTME
Faculty Postgraduate Prize in
Computer Science –
07/22 Reports from Assessor Panels 2006/07
07/22.1
PC07-P24
PC07-P25
The Committee received a report from the assessor panel for the Graduate School Research Student Prizes. The Committee noted recommendations within the report and AGREED to the following changes:
a) the
nomination form should be amended to set a maximum length for attached
documentation of two sides of A4 paper;
b)
the prize criteria should be amended as noted in
07/20 above.
07/22.2 John
Guest Phillips Memorial Travelling Scholarships
PC07-P26
PC07-P27
The Committee received a report from the assessor panel for the John Guest
Phillips Memorial Travelling Scholarships. The Committee noted recommendations
within the report and AGREED that guidance for applicants on the relevant
prizes webpage should be amended to request that, in addition to existing
requirements, when making applications for the scholarships students should:
a) include a
breakdown of anticipated costs;
b) ensure
that their application does not exceed two sides of A4;
c) not
include a curriculum vitae;
d) where
they were applying for funding to attend a conference, indicate whether they had
had a paper or poster accepted for presentation at a conference and note the
title of the paper or poster;
e) explain
what measures they had taken to find funding, eg from their department or from
other funding bodies. Note: contributions from other sources would not be seen
to be a deterrent.
The Committee considered a recommendation from the Panel that guidance for applicants should be amended to indicate that scholarships would not normally be awarded for core funding a student’s research other than in exceptional circumstances. The Committee rejected this proposal as it considered it appropriate to fund a student’s research in this way if the student was unable to find funds from another source.
07/23 Review of Endowment Fund Expenditure
Arising from 07/8 Review of Endowment Fund Expenditure, it
was noted that the Secretary had written to departments that had overspent fund
income to propose action as agreed by the Committee. The Secretary would
provide a report on action taken as a result of this correspondence at the next
meeting. ACTION: MA
07/24 University Calendar Prizes Entries
The Committee AGREED to a proposal from the Secretary that
the paper version of the University Calendar should no longer list prizes
offered by the University as up-to-date information was made available on the
University website. Instead, it was proposed that the Calendar should include a
reference to the relevant page. ACTION:
MA
07/25 Reports from Assessor Panels 2006/07
PC07-P28
The Committee received reports
from the following assessor panels:
25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4 Ursula Lockley Travel Bursary
25.5 T S
Shipman Prizes and Hannah Community Prize
It was noted that Adrian Bailey was a member of the assessor panel for
these prizes in his capacity as Community Warden and not, as stated in the
report, as a member of the Department of Human Sciences.
07/26 Award of Prizes 2006/07
PC07-P29
The Committee noted the award of prizes on the
recommendation of various assessors.
07/27 Reports from Prize Winners 2006/07
PC07-P30
The Committee received reports from 2006/07 winners
of the following prizes:
27.1
27.2 John Guest Phillips Memorial
Travelling Scholarship
27.3
27.4 Ursula Lockley Travel Bursary
07/28 Any Other Business
07/29 Date of Next Meeting
10.00am Tuesday 29 January 2008 (Provisional date to
be confirmed)
Author – Martine Ashby
November 2007
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