Every year, Lancaster University's Engineering Department awards its most outstanding undergraduate students a series of awards and prizes for exceptional performance within their degree. Students can be nominated for a number of different awards, many of which are accompanied by a monetary prize and recognition from an external Engineering body.

Professor Claudio Paoloni, Head of Department, said:

"We are delighted to reward the outstanding achievements of our best students by awards offered by prestigious engineering bodies and industries. We are grateful to IET, IMechE, IChemE, Electka the French family and Stopford for their generous support of student excellence."

The nominations and awarded awards are as follows:

IMechE Prizes

The IMechE Prizes are reserved for students on an IMechE accredited Mechanical Engineering degree.

Project prize for the most outstanding project in Mechanical Engineering

Will Hunt

Frederic Barnes Waldron "Best Student" Prize

James Beadle

Best Project Certificate is for the ‘Best Project’ on any year of a degree course

Mechanical Engineering: Dani Kennedy

Mechatronic Engineering: Duncan Lancaster

Nuclear Engineering: Charlie Thorogood

Best Student Certificate on any year of a degree course

Mechanical Engineering: James Squibb

Mechatronic Engineering: Matthew Dean

Nuclear Engineering: Joseph Spires

Stopford Chemical Engineering Prize

The Stopford Prize is for outstanding achievement within the ChemEng degree scheme.

Winner: Jack Bentley

Elekta Prize for Best Female Engineering Student

The Prize is sponsored by Elekta, who employ engineers and scientists in the design and manufacture of radiotherapy systems for the world-wide healthcare sector.

The Elekta Prize is awarded for academic excellence demonstrated by a female student registered on an undergraduate engineering degree, and the winner is invited to the company's head office to collect their award.

Winner: Darina Antonova

The Professor Michael French Prize

The French family has bequeathed a prize in memory of its founding Head of Department to recognize outstanding creativity and achievement in a student’s undergraduate studies.

A shortlist of the top students is compiled, and then these students are invited to write a short letter in defence of their nomination for the prize, highlighting the creativity and originality in their project activities whilst at Lancaster. The following students are being nominated:

Duncan Lancaster

Christos Bartzis

Dani Kennedy

Will Hunt

Freddy Richmond

IET Prize

The IET prize is for outstanding academic achievement and is accompanied by two year's free membership to the IET.

Winner: Nicolas Seemann-Ricard

Engineering Inspiration Prize

Awarded to female undergraduate students for outstanding contribution to activity that inspires and supports girls and women to achieve their potential as engineers and promotes a diverse engineering community. The award is accompanied by student membership to the Women's Engineering Society for their duration of study at Lancaster.

Winner: Alvira Kumar