£10,000 Scholarships for two EEE postgraduates
26 June 2011 
Postgraduate students from Manchester have been honoured with prestigious scholarships from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Simon Watson a current postgraduate and Sandira Gayadeen who was on the ACSE MSc course were presented with the 2011 awards.
Simon was awarded the Leslie H Paddle Scholarship of £10,000 to assist him as he carries out his doctoral research. Simon started his research in September 2008 and the title of his thesis is “Mobile Platforms for Underwater Sensor Networks”. He is expected to complete this work in March 2012. Simon said: “The award of the IET scholarship is a great honour and will allow me to see my project through to its next stage of development. It will support me in terms of both my academic and professional development and also offers a unique opportunity to raise awareness of my research to the wider engineering community”.
Sandira is awarded an IET Postgraduate Scholarship of £10,000. The scholarship will assist her research as she works towards her doctorate. Sandira started her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in October 2010. The title of her thesis is “Design of a beam stabilisation control system for Diamond Light Source”. It is expected that she will complete this work in April 2014.
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