Exceptional Students celebrated at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering's 2016 Prize Giving ceremony.

Our graduating class of 2016 received their degrees at Imperial College’s Commemoration Day ceremonies at the Royal Albert Hall last Wednesday. 

There was a Departmental Prize Giving ceremony earlier in the day where families, new graduates, continuing students and staff celebrated the achievements of our outstandingly bright cohort. Professor Eric Yeatman, Head of Department, Dr Kristel Fobelets, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Dr David Thomas, Course Director of Electronic and Information Engineering, presented 23 prizes to graduates and 12 prizes to continuing undergraduates. 

The Head of Department’s Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Department was presented to Pascal Loose, in recognition of his work for the Department during his student career.  Pascal was a member of the Student/Staff Committee in his second and fourth years, and Treasurer of EESoc the Departmental Student Society. He took a sabattical between his third and fourth year to be Deputy President of Education for Imperial College Union. Throughout these roles, Pascal was actively involved in understanding and aligning staff and student expectations by establishing effective communication channels within the Department and beyond. Dr Fobelets mentioned her gratitude for Pascal’s efforts in encouraging students to fill in the National Student Survey (NSS) resulting in the highest participation rate ever in the Department.  His dedication and initiatives to engage the student community in the NSS effort were outstanding and without his input the excellent participation rate would not have been achieved.

Roxana Alexandru

Prizes were presented to brilliant projects: Roxana Alexandru won the Eric Laithwaite Prize for Innovation with her project entitled ‘Diffusion Source Detection in Social Networks with Multiple Observations’; and Richard Pollock won the Best Green Engineering Prize for his final year project, ‘Kinetic Energy Recovery Wheel’, which is an electric wheel that can be retrofitted onto any bicycle providing acceleration assistance by collecting and recovering the kinetic energy dissipated during braking. This is similar to the kinetic energy recovery system found in Formula One racing cars. The wheel will never have to be charged from a mains outlet.

 

Richard Pollock

Douglas, Thomas and David with Dr Thomas and Professor Yeatman

Prizes were also given to continuing student to celebrate their exceptional achievements, including prizes for top undergraduates in the first, second, third years of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE), and project prizes. Dr Thomas presented the prize to the best first year EIE group project to Douglas Brion, Thomas Carotti and David Shah. They built an FPGA-based augmented reality headset which overlays virtual content on physical markers.  Dr Thomas praised their project, saying it was the standard of a final year project. David Shah also won the Head of Department’s Prize for the top student in the first year of EIE.

There were many other prizes celebrating various achievements of our students (view the full list of Prize Winners).  Congratulations to all our students. We wish the best of luck to those who have graduated and look forward to keeping in contact with them in the future