Students presented their summer internship projects supervised by both academic staff and PhD students. The 34 students across civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electronics and electrical engineering and chemical engineering showcased their innovative research, ideas and proposed next steps of their projects, each displaying outstanding societal and environmental benefit.  

Now in its eighth year, the programme offers paid, project-based work experience to undergraduate engineering students across a range of our research, teaching and professional services activities, over 8-12 weeks during the summer. 

The judging panel included Abdul Nasim, Communications Officer, Khushboo Pandey, Lecturer in Experimental Thermofluids and guest industry panelist, Andrew Davidson from indie Semiconductor. The three panelists scored students on presentation style, ability to communicate complex information to a non-specialist audience and setting information in clear context.  

Prizes were awarded to: 

1st prize: Nefeli Pelekanou 

2nd prize: Adeline Hannon 

Highly commended: Aten Chau, Scott Malcolm and Dominic Westwood 

Katherine Cameron, Industry Engagement Manager at the School of Engineering said: 

“It’s important that as well as encouraging our students to seek summer work in industry we provide opportunities to explore career and postgraduate study options within the School. I am always impressed by how much our students have learned and contributed within such a short time frame over the summer. Congratulations to all of the interns, the presentations were of a high standard and I wish them well with their next year at University.” 

Watch the winning presentations here