Student awards from IOM3
Student awards from the Institute include four competitive prizes awarded to exceptional students on materials courses. There is also a literature review prize to encourage postgraduate students to prepare critical reviews as part of their studies.
Institute Competitive Prizes
The Institute has a number of awards specifically for graduates of materials courses. Nominations for these awards are made by university materials departments.
The Royal Charter, A T Green and R H Craven awards are given to students graduating from UK accredited materials courses for their superior performance together with other qualities and achievements which suggest a promising professional career.
The Royal Charter Prize
Founded by the Metals Society to mark the grant of the Royal Charter to the Institution of Metallurgists in 1975. Awarded to the best materials student regardless of discipline.
The A T Green Award
Founded by the Institute of Ceramics to recognise Dr A T Green, a prime mover in the establishment of the Institute of Ceramics on 6 May 1955 and its first President. Awarded to the best graduate with excellence in ceramics materials.
R H Craven Award
Founded by the London Section of the Plastics and Rubber Institute to commemorate R H Craven, the Assistant Secretary of the PRI, in honour of his contribution to the plastics and rubber industries. Awarded to the best graduate with excellence in polymer materials.
The award is presented for a student project or published paper on the subject of polymers.
The James S Walker Award
For more information about all the above awards and prizes, contact Peter Davies in our Education department using the online enquiry form.
Materials Literature Review Prize
The Materials Literature Review Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining aims to encourage the preparation of definitive, critical reviews of the literature by students as an essential part of study for a higher degree in the materials field, and subsequently make the best of these available to a wider readership. The prize is administered by the editorial board of Materials Science and Technology (MST).
Open to any postgraduate student studying in the UK, the prize carries a cash award, in line with other Institute prizes for papers. The winning review will, following refereeing, be published in MST or another institute journal. Other commended entries, although not achieving the prize, may be selected for publication, attracting an honorarium of £100.
Second-year PhD student, Talia Gershon from the University of Cambridge, has won the 2010 competition with a paper entitled ‘Metal oxide applications in organic-based photovoltaics’. She received £1,000 thanks to sponsorship of the Prize from the UK Centre for Materials Education (UKCME).
Two finalists were highly commended – Joe Briscoe, Cranfield University, for ‘Extra-thin absorber solar cells based on nanostructured semiconductors’ and Stephen Gamble, University of St Andrews, for ‘Fabrication-microstructure-performance relationships of reversible solid oxide fuel cell electrodes’.
The deadline for the 2010 competition has now passed. Sponsorship by the UKCME means that the 2011 prize money will again be £1,000. For further information, contact Naomi Asantewa-Sechereh, or visit the Literature Review home page.