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Students pick up SET Awards
The winners of the 2006 SET Awards have been announced at a ceremony attended by more than 500 students, academics and business leaders in London's Royal Courts of Justice.
The winners of the 2006 SET (Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year) Awards have been announced at a ceremony attended by more than 500 students, academics and business leaders in London's Royal Courts of Justice Entries were received from every major university in the UK and Ireland, and judges paid tribute to the exception quality of this year's work
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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45 students were shortlisted in 15 different categories.
The SET Awards are organised by the World Leadership Forum and sponsored by Airbus, Amec, AstraZeneca, Bentley Motors, BOC Group, Cadbury Schweppes, Filtronic, ICI, GKN, GlaxoSmithKline, IET, Lloyd's Register, Microsoft Research, Morgan Crucible and the National Physical Laboratory.
Engineering highlights of the awards include the following.
The Airbus Award for the Best Aeronautical Engineering Student was won by Tom Offord of the University of Cambridge for "Pulse combustion for gas turbines".
The BOC Award for the Best Chemical Engineering Student went to Richard Trueman of the University of Sheffield for "Designing better tablets".
The Microsoft Research Award for the Best Computational Science Student was won by Petra Vertes of the University of Cambridge for "Group structure in complex networks".
The Filtronic Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student was awarded to Jack Naylon of Cardiff University for "Photon detectors using superconducting niobium resonators".
The IET Award for the Best IT Student went to Marc Hull of Imperial College London for "Balancing simplicity and efficiency in web applications".
The Lloyd's Register Award for the Best Maritime Technology Student was won by Sally Denchfield of the University of Southampton for "The effect of abnormally shaped waves in tidal races on yachts and small craft".
The Bentley Motors Award for the Best Mechanical Engineering Student went to Andreas Kyrtatos of Imperial College London for "Investigation of the transient behaviour of diesel engines by steady state experiments and simulation".
The GKN Award for the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year went to Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere of Imperial College London for "Simple groups".
And the Lecturer of the Year was Dr Lynda White of Imperial College London.
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