The IET Northumbria 2018 Students' Projects Competition was this year held at Durham University on the Wednesday 14th March 2018 and was a great success. The competition which was between final-year engineering degree and masters students from the four local universities Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Durham comprised two categories i.e. posters and live presentations.
The topics covered were varied, of a high standard, and presented the judges, Richard Burnard (Principal EC&I Engineer, Wood Plc.) and Nicholas Kasch (Research Scientist, Big Solar -Poweroll) with difficult choices.
In the end the First Prize of a £50 gift token and a certificate in the posters category was awarded to Alex Ashton of Durham University for his project “Adaptive Emergency Escape Routing Using Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network”.
The First prize of a £50 gift token and a certificate in the presentations category was awarded to Joseph Birks of Sunderland University for the presentation of his project “Robotic Manipulation of Fragile Objects using Tactile Manipulation”
All entrants received prize certificates for inclusion in their CVs.
The full results were as follows for the Posters category:
| Prizes |
| Student (University), Project Title |
| 1st |
| Alex Ashton (DU) “Adaptive Emergency Escape Routing Using Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network” |
| 2nd |
| Genevieve Rawlins (DU) “An Introductory Investigation into Accent Classification in the North East of England” |
| 2nd |
| Alvaro Marquez, (NCL) “Underwater Acoustic Positioning System” |
| 3rd |
| Tianrong Chen, (NU) “The Investigation of Drone Arc Flight” |
| 3rd |
| Tian Li, (NU) “Optimized Energy Management for Smart Hybrid Home-Microgrid” |
| 3rd |
| Jack Schofield (DU) "Teaching Machines to Feel" |
| 3rd |
| Elisangela Oliveira, (SU) “Offshore Wind Turbine with a Directional Control System” |
| 3rd |
| Stephen McGuire, (SU) “Portable Energy Monitoring Kit for Automation Machinery” |
| 3rd |
| Alice Bunning,(NCL) “Improving on Pedal Power” |
| 3rd |
| Kathryn Harder, (NCL) “Using Energy Storage to Facilitate the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in Networks” |
| 3rd |
| Ye (Jason) Cao, (NU) “Temperature Sensing and Heating Effects based on Surface Acoustic Waves” |
In the Presentations category the results were as follows:
| Prizes |
| Student, Project Title (University) |
| 1st |
| Joseph Birks, (SU) “Robotic Manipulation of Fragile Objects using Tactile Manipulation” |
| 2nd |
| Genevieve Rawlins (DU) "Accent Classification in the North of England" |
| 3rd |
| Richard Wallace, (NU) “Music over Visible Light Communication” |
| 3rd |
| Jack Scholfield (DU) "Teaching Machines to Feel" |
NU – Northumbria University, DU – Durham University, SU – Sunderland University, NCL – Newcastle University
Photographs of the event:
Alex Ashton of Durham University - First prize winner in the Poster Category
Joseph Birks of Sunderland University - First prize winner for the presentation of his project “Robotic Manipulation of Fragile Objects using Tactile Manipulation”
The group photographs:
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