Last week we welcomed 166 new undergraduate students to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

As well as finding their bearings around the College and discovering all the support and resources available to them, the students met their tutors, had a maths test, attended a professional skills session and had lunch with lecturers and tutors.

Students also took part in our icebreaker activity ‘The Flying Thing’ devised by Dr Adria Junyent-Ferre. They were put in groups and asked to design and build a weighted device to drop from 2m and safely land on a platform using only paper, lolly sticks and sticky tape. The students worked on this enthusiastically and had a great time testing these out at the competition on Friday afternoon.  Prizes were presented by our Head of Department, Professor Eric Yeatman. 

Amongst the new cohort we have several scholarship winners. Three students have received President’s Undergraduate Scholarships which are the most prestigious awards the College has to offer. These awards are for new students who demonstrate the highest academic excellence and potential. This year’s recipients are Anuja Gaitonde and Augusta Munn. They will receive £1,000 for each year of study.

We also have eleven students with Maurice Hancock scholarships for excellence in A Levels (or equivalent).  This year the recipients are: Aswaath Balasubramanian, Benjamin Biggs, Georgios Ionannides, Prithvi Menon, Edward David Aubrey Pickup, Jamie-Lee Thompson, Bonne van Oordt, Vadim Varfolomeev, Francisco Vicente Correia, Lei Wang, Xinyuan Xu.

Congratulations to all our new students. We wish you the best of luck with your studies.