Undergraduate prizes

Awards for Excellence  
awarded to top three students in each year - sponsored by the department

• Gold award £300
• Silver award £200
• Bronze award £100

Departmental Applications Exercise Prizes
awarded annually in each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year applications exercises - sponsored by the department

• First Prize - Best Group Design-Build-Test Exercise - £30 Voucher each
• Second Prize - Second Best Group Design-Build-Test Exercise - £25 Voucher each

Awards for Excellence
awarded to top three students in each year - sponsored by the department

• Gold Award - £300
• Silver Award - £200
• Bronze Award - £100

Departmental Applications Exercise Prizes
awarded annually in each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year applications exercises - sponsored by the department

• First Prize - Best Group Design-Build-Test Exercise - £30 Voucher each
• Second Prize - Second Best Group Design-Build-Test Exercise - £25 Voucher each

Awards for Excellence
awarded to top three students in each year - sponsored by the department

• Gold Award - £300
• Silver Award - £200
• Bronze Award - £100

Aeronautics Student Centenary Prize 
awarded to students with top mark in each of the five Group Design Projects - £100 each

Departmental Applications Exercise Prizes
awarded annually in each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year applications exercises - sponsored by the department

• First Prize - Best Aerospace Vehicle Design Group Performance - £30 Voucher each
• Second Prize - Second Best Aerospace Vehicle Design Group Performance - £25 Voucher each

Governor’s Prize
for the student of greatest merit in the final undergraduate year in the Department of Aeronautics - £100

Royal Aeronautical Society Prize
for  the undergraduate student of greatest merit in the department and to a final year student for all-round excellence in Aeronautical Engineering - £100

Head of Department Exceptional Achievement Award
Sponsored by the Department - £100

Best Contribution to Student Experience Award
For the final year student who contributed most to the student experience in all four years - £100

Aeronautics Resilience Award
to recognise higher education achievement despite challenging circumstances - £50 

Fourth Year Project Merit Prize 
sponsored by the department

• Best Computational Final Year Project - £100
• Best Experimental Final Year Project - £100
• Best Industrial Final Year Project - £100

BAE Systems Prize
to the student graduating in the year submitting the best aerospace-related individual project report - £100

Aeronautics Scholars
Students who achieve an average of 70% or above in their first and second year aggregates, will be recognised as Aeronautics Scholars by the Department when they start their third year of studies. They will get a certificate of excellence, but this information will not be included in their official transcript. Certificates will be issued to students by the end of October in the following academic year.

Aeronautics Scholars 2023-24 (listed by surname):
Ishaan Bhargava
Joshua Bobin
Yinuo Nick Chen
Xiaorong Xavier Chen
Ruchika Chettry
Krishna Chivukula
Daniel Cooper
Joseph Essigman
Benedict Eze
Adrian Fok
Haitian Gao
Benjamin Groat
Hanchen Li
Zhaotong Jim Liu
Hugo Victor Lopera Starefors
William Lowe
Reedham Patel
Guy Paterson
Thomas Shepherd
Yusuf Syed
Samuel Taylor
Lok Tong Coco Yeung
Shiwei Hans Zhang
Siyi Zheng

Student Activity Award

The Old Centralians have made 2 Accommodation Bursary awards available to the department. These are of the order of £750 and are intended to be awarded to the student judged by the Senior Tutors to be most active in student affairs.

Typically this might include sporting activity, social work or university union work. If you wish to apply for one of these can you submit an application to the Senior Tutor with a letter making out your case for support before the end of Spring term for consideration by the Old Centralians during the summer.