Two Product Design Engineering students from the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) were recently awarded Hammermen Awards from the Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow. The students were accompanied by Prof Jonathan Corney (Head of Department) and Dr Hilary Grierson (UG Individual Projects Co-ordinator for DMEM) when they collected their awards from the Trades House of Glasgow.
Susie Smart (MEng PDE) and Mark Henderson (BEng PDE) were awarded winner and runner-up prizes respectively. Both students were presented with a special certificate marking the 50th Anniversary of the awards by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne. Prior to the Awards Ceremony, the students and staff were presented to Her Royal Highness and Susie and Mark had the opportunity to discuss their careers and engineering aspirations with her.
In addition to the certificates, Susie received £300 and an ornament crafted by one of the Hammermen silversmiths to commemorate the special event. Mark also received £200. The aim of the Hammermen Competition is to encourage and assist engineering students and apprentices, who are studying for a qualification, to gain employment in any branch of the engineering industry related to the origins of the Hammermen craft in metalwork or its modern day equivalents. The prize-winners usually apply their prize money towards the development of their careers and/or visits to companies associated with their career interests. Susie plans to put her prize money towards a work placement this summer and Mark is using his prize money to protect intellectual property on his recent design project ideas. Dr Grierson noted the Department is delighted with their achievements and that both students were very deserving of their awards.
Jenni recently won first place in the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) student project award 2011. Jenni’s competition entry was based on her final year individual project, an “adventure racing footwear system”. Jenni developed the system primarily for adventure racers who frequently transition from running to cycling stages during events.
The idea is that using the Cleat Feet, which fit in a similar way to micro-crampons, racers can save time by using a single pair of shoes for both running and cycling, but without losing out on the more efficient power transfer that clipless pedals, such as SPDs allow by fixing the shoe directly to the pedal.
Jenni first entered her project brief for stage 1 of the competition back in August 2011. Thereafter, she was successfully selected to progress to stage 2 and was required to submit her full project report. Please see this link for more confirmation of Jenni’s ISEA success
http://www.sportsengineering.co.uk/news.php
Jenni secured £100 in prize money, together with an ISEA certificate and full membership of the ISEA for one year.
However, not content with one prize, Jenni’s “cleat feet” product then went on to win the Innov_ex student prize . This design innovation competition, run alongside the Innovation-for-Extremes conference, saw Jenni being awarded £500 in prize money. In addition, Jenni will receive a year’s business mentoring by Sam Fountain, a former Dragon’s Den competitor and the founder of SheWee, something which she is particularly looking forward to. More information on Jenni’s project and the competition can be found here
http://innovation-for-extremes.net/
In addition, the project attracted some more attention on the Outdoors Magic website:
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/gear-news/innovex-innovation-prize-gets-bikey/9541.html
Dr Andrew Wodehouse, Course Co-ordinator for the BEng/MEng Sports Engineering programme, said “DMEM is very proud of Jenni’s achievements. These awards give due recognition to our Sports Engineering degree, which is unique in Scotland and which has been accredited by 4 professional institutions. Jenni’s project was a great combination of the design engineering and sports science expertise our students acquire. We wish her every success in further development of the product.”
Upon graduating in July 2011, Jenni gained employment with Berghaus as a Footwear Developer. Jenni’s role is to manage the technical product development of all Berghaus footwear and affords her the opportunity to undertake extensive business travel, both domestic and international.
MAKE ENERGY TANGIBLE
DMEM design interactions display of student work.
Studio display
16-20 january 2012
Guest evening - industry, academia, public sector
5-7pm Thursday 19 January 2012
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DMEM is delighted to announce the Excellence Awards student scholarship scheme, The DMEM Excellence Awards, for 2012 entry. The Department will award a total of 10 awards, at a value of £1,000 sterling each to international MSc applicants.
In addition to the standard University application, students who wish to be considered for an award must complete an additional application, which can be found here.
Only applicants who have received and accepted an unconditional offer will be eligible to apply for a scholarship and the selection criteria will include a strong academic performance in the applicant's first degree.
The closing date for applications is Monday 21 May 2012 and successful applicants will be notified before the 21 June - good luck and we look forward to receiving your application!
DMEM student Robbie MacDonald, who graduated with an MEng in Product Design Engineering with Distinction this year, has recently received two awards. He was awarded an IED Student Prize 2011 earlier this month for his individual student project which looked at a new method of repairing and replacing offshore wind turbines.
Robbie receives his award from Blair Hutton (also a graduate of DMEM), Design Embassador, Institution of Engineering Designers, with Dr Hilary Grierson, DMEM Individual Projects' Co-ordinator.
This project contributed to Robbie's 2nd award when he won the "Brightest Young Business" Award at the Strathclyde Enterprise Awards 2011. http://www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/headline_550283_en.html
Not content with having spent 5 years studying in DMEM, Robbie has returned and is currently studying with us for a MPhil degree.
Recently two Product Design Engineering students from the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management were awarded Hammermen Awards at the Trades House on Glassford Street by the Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow. Liam Liu (4th year) and Jonathon Marks (5th year) and were winner and runner-up respectively. Liam subsequently went on to become the runner-up to the Prince Philip Prize, second out of all the applicants from universities.
The object of the Hammermen Competition is to encourage and assist engineering students and apprentices, who are studying for a qualification, with employment in any branch of the engineering industry related to the origins of the Hammermen craft in metalwork or its modern day equivalents. The prize-winners usually apply their prize money towards the development of their careers and/or visits to companies associated with their career interests.
Liam plans to put his prize monies towards visiting companies in Europe whilst on a placement this summer with Rolls Royce and Jonathon is using his prize money to pursue his career in boat design in New Zealand.
Following the success of our Student Showcase at The Lighthouse in June, GSC invited us participate in the
"Wallace & Gromit Cracking Ideas Exhibition",
which
is talking place at the GSC until November. If you didn't make it
along to The Lighthouse, then there is still the opportunity to see some
of our students' work at the GSC
DMEM academic shortlisted for Teaching
Excellence
Award
DMEM’s Dave MacKay, a former graduate of the Dept was one of 5 nominees shortlisted for the University’s first Teaching Excellence Awards. Dave was nominated in the category of Innovative Lecturer Award for his Dragon’s Den style assignments and presentations. DMEM is rightly proud of Dave’s nomination! See this link for more information about the Awards
Sports Engineering Student Success
Strathclyde Students Runners Up in National Competition / 2 Dec 2009
DMEM's Studio has been upgraded. The new area has been developed into a number of different zones, to allow a variety of different types of work to be accommodated. Zone 1 allows team working; Zone 2 is a flexible learning environment, and is fitted with 2 wifi enabled projectors; Zone 3 is a social area and Zone 4 contains personal workstations.
Recently two Product Design Engineering students from the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management were awarded Hammermen Awards by the Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow.
Euan Coutts (5th year) and Jonathan Gray (4th year) were winner and runner-up respectively.
The object of the Hammermen Competition is to encourage and assist engineering students and apprentices, who are studying for a qualification, with employment in any branch of the engineering industry related to the origins of the Hammermen craft in metalwork or its modern day equivalents. The prize-winners will apply their prize money towards the development of their careers and/or visits to companies associated with their career interests.
As winner of the Hammermen Award, Euan Coutts subsequently went on interview for the Prince Philip Prize, along with Hammermen Award winners from other universities. Euan was again successful, achieving runner-up and will be presented with prize money of £500 and a certificate.
DMEM's 4th and 5th year Product Development Partnership (PDP) projects provide a unique experience for student teams to work on real life industrial projects and provide solutions which will have a real impact in today's society. An example of one of this year's projects is for Oceanic Tuna Limited (OTL), a company based in Scotland who breed tuna fish. OTL has developed a modular transportable hatchery system designed so that it can be moved to another location if pollution or algae affect water quality. A 5th year project has been developing a robotic 'crash test tuna' to allow OTL to run replicable tests on equipment and systems and to better understand impacts as they would occur on live fish. The prototype is currently under construction and will be delivered to OTL in May.
For more information on Oceanic Tuna Limited visit www.oceanictuna.com
DMEM have made a major upgrade to their extensive and exciting range of rapid prototyping technology within their Digital Design & Manufacturing Studio. Students who already have access to the widest range of digital design and manufacturing tools in the country can now utilise the Objet Eden 350 advanced rapid prototyping system to support their design projects.
Objet utilises Polyjet™ technology to achieve ultra thin layers (0.016mm) enabling smooth, accurate and highly detailed models to be produced in a range of materials directly from CAD models. This 3D printing system has established itself within design-led organisations and DMEM joins leading industrial organisations using this premium-standard technology.
This major investment demonstrates DMEM’s commitment to excellence in ensuring students have unrivalled access to the latest tools and technology to prepare them for successful careers in industry.
A video of a machine using similar technology to ours is shown in action here
The 2008, UK wide, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rated both the "Design and Manufacturing" and "Engineering Management" activities of DMEM as top in Scotland.
The Department's academic staff were assessed in the RAE 2008 exercise under the headings of both "Business" and "Mechanical Engineering", with DMEM's manufacturing and operations management activities being incorporated as part of the "Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management" (SIOM) within Strathclyde Business School's submission and, similarly, DMEM's design and manufacturing researchers united with the staff of Mechanical Engineering to form a joint submission.
The management activity was assessed as clearly the best in Scotland and placed in the UK's top 10. See www.gsb.strath.ac.uk/news/rae.asp.
Similarly the department's "Design and Manufacturing" researchers (incorporated in the Mechanical Engineering submission) were placed first in Scotland, with some 50% of them being rated as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
Head of Department, Professor Jonathan Corney noted: "This is a great result for the Department, and correctly reflects the unique breadth and strength we have in fundamental Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management research."
In both areas these results show a significant improvement from the previous RAE and well exceed the intended target profile. See www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/headline_167533_en.html
Monday 8 September, 6 - 8 pm
Tuesday 9 September, 9.30 am - 3 pm
Interested in finding out more about our courses for '09 entry? Visit our stand in the Assembly Hall, James Weir Building and our exhibition in the Marquee, Rottenrow Gardens, when you will have the opportunity to speak to lecturers and students on our courses, take a tour of the department's facilities, including the Digital Design & Manufacture Studio.
Maneesh Kumar, a PhD researcher working with Prof. Jiju Antony within DMEM, was awarded best student paper in the empirical category at the International Conference on Quality & Productivity Research in Oulu, Finland, 24th - 26th June, 2008. The paper is entitled "Comparing the quality management practices between six sigma and ISO certified SMEs - a survey based approach" and has been conditionally accepted for publication in a journal.
Professor Jiju Antony has been nominated for the "Outstanding Reviewer" award by the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, for his contribution throughout 2007. The Journal provides a forum for the international exchange of theoretical and practical aspects of quality and management in health care and helps to develop knowledge about continuous improvement and its implementation in health care organisations.
Fresh from the success of winning the top company award at the recent Scottish KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) Awards, we are delighted to announce that one of our KTP projects has emerged as one of the top 3 companies at the UK awards. The winners were drawn from a field of 310 companies. The winning KTP is with Blairs, a bespoke windows and door manufacturing company, based in Greenock and employing 150 staff. DMEM Senior Research Fellow, Trevor Turner, was accompanied at the awards ceremony in London by Blair's KTP Associates David Giles and John Ritchie (both DMEM Manufacturing Science and Engineering graduates), together with Blair's Engineering Director, Allan French. Our congratulations to Allan , David, John, Trevor and all at Blairs . Trevor would like to thank everyone in the department that has contributed to the success of the KTP by their involvement in supporting the Associates, supervising student projects, and their involvement in Product Development Partnerships.