The Postgraduate Poster conference 2011
1 December
Robert Morton from National Instruments presenting a prize to C. Zachariades
On Wednesday the 30th of November the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering held its 4th Post Graduate Research (PGR) conference.
This yearly conference gives our 2nd year PGR students an opportunity to showcase their research to the rest of the School and our Industrial Advisory Group (IAG). In keeping with previous years the conference took the form of a poster session during which other postgraduate and undergraduate students, members of staff and the industrial advisory group were able to mingle in an informal atmosphere and discuss with individual PGR students their work and presentations.
The aim of these conferences is to provide training in a very important and industrially relevant transferable skill; that of the presenting and communicating the motivation and outputs of a researchers work. In this sense the conference works on many levels with students involved in the organisation of the conference itself as well as preparing posters to present their work to the varied audience attending.
In keeping with the School’s commitment to maintain industrial relevance to its teaching and research, members of the Industrial Advisory Group were in attendance to judge the quality of the students work and to present prizes which were sponsored by members of the group. There were 48 posters presented in this year’s conference. The Industrial Advisory Group commented on the very high standard of the posters.
When it came to judging the winners of prizes (1st prize and 4 runners up) this was no easy job given the tremendous breadth of the work in the School; in the end 5 winners were identified:
Overall Winner:
- C. Zachariades
“A trial installation of high voltage composite cross-arms”
Prize sponsored by National Instruments
Runners up:
- Steven Jordan - “Multiphase Synchronous Generators for DC Aircraft Power Systems”
Prize sponsored by Rolls-Royce - Mousumi Roy - “Estimation of coupled noise in low noise phased array antennas”
Prize sponsored by Jaguar Land-Rover - Antony Beddard - “Connection to Shore Reliability”
Prize sponsored by National Grid - Jidong Jin - “Tuning the electrical Properties of ZnO Thin-Film Transistors by Thermal Annealing in Different Gases”
Prize sponsored by The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
