“There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”- Bill Nye
On Wednesday, Kelly and Tom spent the day at their alma mater - The University of Birmingham - launching the 2023 Raymont-Osman Design Final Year Mechanical Engineering Prize.
This annual prize recognises brilliance in the final year projects of UoB Mechanical Engineering students with a first prize of £500 and with honourable mentions for the runners up.
Past winners and honourable mentions have included:
Shafath Chowdhury - Patient-specific design for high tibial osteotomy plates using densitometric calibration (winner 2022)
Gabrielle McNeelance - Osteoarthritis knee brace (winner 2021)
Zoe Kitson - Blood Clot Removal Device (winner 2020)
Laura Gillingham - Energy Recovery from CO² Expansion
Charles Bowen - 3D Printed Knee Implant
David Scott - Ankle Simulator
Jafar Adam - Cooling of electric vehicle batteries
Andy Preston - Novel Gripper for picking up porous mats
Benjamin Hutchins - MicroscoPy 2.0
Charles Heaton - Right Atrium simulator for haemodialysis catheter testing
Joe Garrett - Vertical axis wind turbines
Entry Requirements
- Open to all final-year Mechanical Engineering students currently studying at the University of Birmingham
- A proposal on what you will design and/or develop for your FYP, how you will do it and highlighting why it is important or interesting
- One side of A4 only; can be in any format and no limitation on text
- Submitted in the post or via email to hello@raymont-osman.com with the subject FYP Prize to arrive with us by
12pm the 6th March 2023
Good luck!