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Emerging Engineers Award – 2024 international final

Event organised by ICE

Date
15 October 2024
Time

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Overview

The Emerging Engineers Award 2024 international final will be hosted online by the Early Careers Network (ECNet).  

This year, three finalists have been selected from the regional and branch competitions across the international ICE Early Careers Network. Each finalist will showcase their best work by presenting a paper in their chosen area of engineering design, research or practice, followed by a Q&A from the judging panel and audience.   

The overall winner will receive a cash prize and the prestigious Institution Medal.  

We look forward to welcoming you to what’s set to be a very informative and enlightening event. 

About the Emerging Engineers Award

The Emerging Engineers Award promotes and rewards excellence in the originality and communication of civil engineering ideas and research.

It does this by creating an opportunity for ICE student and graduate members, as well as apprentices at either of these grades or holding professionally qualified membership as IEng MICE or EngTech MICE and continuing on their apprenticeship, to showcase their knowledge and talent to the wider civil engineering community.

Entrants present papers on engineering design, research or practice to an audience of their peers Entering this competition gives members the opportunity to enhance their written and verbal presentation skills, showcase their work and enhance continuing professional development, particularly in support of professional review preparation.

The ability to communicate technical concepts in a clear manner to a varied audience is a key skill for civil engineers, and this competition provides opportunity to enhance presentation skills. There is also opportunity to be selected for publication of the winning paper in one of the ICE technical journals.

Programme

12:00 - 12:05

ECNet chair Nada Elhariry's welcome

12:05 - 12:15

Presentation - finalist 1: Imogen Harding

12:15 - 12:25

Q&A - Finalist 1

12:25 - 12:35

Presentation - finalist 2: Afeefa Muhammad Iliyas

12:35 - 12:45

Q&A - Finalist 2

12:45 - 12:55

Presentation - finalist 3: Ben Millar

13:05 - 13:15

Q&A - finalist 3

13:15 - 13:25

ECNet deputy chair presentation and judges’ deliberation time

13:25 - 13:35

Presentation by Chris Davenport, regional winner ICE North East Emerging Engineers Award

13:35 - 13:45

Q&A

13:45 - 14:00

Closing remarks and event end

Finalists

Imogen Harding

Imogen Harding

Cardiff University

graduate civil engineer

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Imogen Harding

Imogen won first place in the ICE Wales Emerging Engineers Award, hosted in Cardiff Bay. 

She presented her university dissertation project on Optimising building energy performance forecasting with machine learning algorithms to a panel of judges from ICE Wales Cymru. 

Imogen graduated with a first class Honours in MEng Civil Engineering (International) with a year in industry. She joins the rail team at Balfour Beatty in September as a graduate civil engineer. 

Afeefa Muhammad Iliyas

Afeefa Muhammad Iliyas

Heriot-Watt University Dubai

graduate civil engineer

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Afeefa Muhammad Iliyas

Afeefa Muhammad Iliyas, a graduate of Heriot-Watt University Dubai won the UAE Emerging Engineers Award final.

She impressed the judges with her paper on Eco-friendly concrete: partial cement replacement with ceramic waste powder and supplementary cementitious materials.Concrete, widely used in construction for its strength and durability, has a significant environmental impact due to the carbon emitted when producing cement.

Iliyas’ research aimed to develop sustainable concrete by partly replacing cement with materials like silica fumes (SF), ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), and ceramic waste powder (CWP).

These materials not only reduce carbon emissions but also enhance concrete properties.

Ben Millar

Ben Millar

Queen's University Belfast

PhD student

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Ben Millar

Ben Millar, a PhD student at Queen's University Belfast, impressed the judges with the presentation of his paper on ArchiMEDES: the development of computer vision-based methods for predicting scour at bridges.

ArchIMEDES: arch image measurement for the evaluation of deformation by erosion due to scour is a computer vision tool. It was developed to remotely record load-induced displacements across a masonry arch bridge as well as hinge information, which is unique to ArchIMEDES.

It's built specifically for the FlexiArch but has applications outside of this system. Scour is the most common cause of bridge collapse. It particularly endangers masonry arches due to the nature of their construction.

The paper concluded that the ArchIMEDES suite of tools has proved to be robust and reliable at detecting and predicting scour.

It can act as an early warning system and allow engineers to be proactive rather than reactive.

For more information please contact:

Joanne Topping

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