IET PATW – BIRMINGHAM LOCAL HEAT

Present Around The World (PATW) is the IET's presentation competition for students, recent graduates,

apprentices and young professionals aged 18 to 30.The event is mainly to judge presentation skills so competitors

are asked to give a presentation for ten minutes on any subject related to Engineering and Technology, and to

answer questions for a further five minutes. This year's Birmingham local heat took place at Birmingham City

University (BCU) on Thursday 26th April and despite a few organisational hiccups, the event was conducted with

great success.

 

David Brookes Rolls-Royce Control Systems

Mak Sharma Birmingham City University

David Mellor Wincanton Defence & Engineering

PATW Judges

We had a total of 8 contestants from BCU, University of Birmingham, Rolls Royce Plc and Tata Technologies.

Presentation topics ranged from robotics and automation all the way to radio frequency and piezoelectricity.

In the words of Professor Mak Sharma, the quality and standard of each presentation was quite high and

the contestants seem to be improving year on end.

 

James Pedley Tata Technologies Challenges of Developing Autonomous Vehicles Winner

Arushi Madan University of Birmingham Suicide Prevention Mechanism Runner up

PATW Winners

On Behalf of IET Birmingham's YP committee, I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to our winners

and commiserations to all our other contestants. I would also like to thank the judges who volunteered to participate

in this event and who also provided valuable feedback to each contestant.

In future events we hope to encourage other companies and universities around the Birmingham area to take part

in the event. Many thanks to Amy Muncer at PATW, Abraham Alex at Birmingham YP and our chairman Ivan Ellis

whose help was invaluable to the success of this event.