The IET awards up to five postgraduate scholarships annually, between £2,500 and £10,000. The scholarships are for IET members who have started their doctorate and are intended to reward excellence rather than alleviate financial hardship. They are awarded on a competitive basis: applications are assessed by the IET Scholarships Committee and short-listed applicants are interviewed....
Alison Gibbings was awarded the IET Postgraduate Scholarship for an Outstanding Researcher of £10,000. Alison is a co-located PhD student at the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory, University of Strathclyde and the Systems, Power and Energy research division, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Her research, which she started in 2009, is on the experimental and analytical modelling of laser ablation for the deflection, exploration and exploitation of Near Earth Asteroids.
Samantha Simons was awarded the IET Leslie H Paddle Scholarship of £5,000. Samantha graduated from the University of Surrey with a first MEng (Hons) degree in Medical Engineering and her PhD is also at the University of Surrey. Her research, which she started in 2012, is on the Analysis of brain signals, with advanced signal processing techniques, to help in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr Min Zhang was awarded an IET Postgraduate Scholarship of £2,500. She started her PhD in the Department of Engineering at University of Cambridge in 2010. Her research interests encompass a variety of fields of electrical engineering and applied physics, and her thesis title is: “High temperature superconductors and their application in electrical machines.”
