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2012 Graduate and Student Papers Competition final
The ICE 2012 Graduate and Student Papers Competition (GSPC) final was held at ICE on Tuesday 13 November 2012. Three regional winners presented their papers in front of an audience, both live and on-line, of ICE student and graduate members.
GSPC Chair, Wei Liu, said “Tonight we had great presentations on subjects that are not hugely taken on board by a lot of engineers or researchers. All the candidates presented very professionally and I think they did very well, especially in addressing the issues of sustainability”.
Mark Sanders’ paper ‘Fertiliser from Human Waste in Scottish Agriculture’, won him first place and the top prize of £1,500 and much coveted Institution medal.
Mark said after the event:
“I am both thrilled and honoured to win the ICE 2012 Graduates and Students Papers Competition. This competition has allowed me to demonstrate the potential for human waste recycling, whilst also highlighting why civil engineers should be more engaged in this developing technology. Winning the competition will allow me to develop my research and raise the profile of this emerging practice. I recently also won an ICE QUEST Travel Award, and this together with my GSPC competition prize money means I can go to Haiti in 2013 to document first-hand how this technology is being applied at ground level in impoverished and disaster relief scenarios. I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me develop my research paper and presentation; including support from my university, work colleagues, friends and family.
I’d strongly urge other students and graduates to enter this competition, as it not only raises your profile within the industry, but offers the opportunity to promote existing and new technologies for sustainability - issues that we as civil engineers have a responsibility to address.”
Second place went to Jamie Radford for his paper ‘Physical Characterisation of Pit Latrine Sludge’ and third went to Jonathan Lee for his paper ‘Hydrodynamic Performance of a Partially Perforated Dual Cylindrical Caisson Breakwater’.
Director of Membership, David Lloyd-Roach commented "The evening's presentations reflected serious global issues that our three Graduate member finalists obviously relished tackling. The presentations were excellent both in technical content and delivery and the audience could not have been more engaged”.
Also speaking at the final was Claire Rose, Chair of the Graduates and Students Network (GSNet) Committee, who spoke about the GSNet activities and the Quest Awards available to ICE student members.
If you wish to have a copy of the finalists papers, presentations or to receive a recording of the final please contact the Awards Coordinator (awards@ice.org.uk).