2 September 2013
Energy and Environmental Engineering Poster Day 2013
There were 125 students registered on the MSc(Eng) Environmental and Energy Engineering programme in 2012-13. This specialist course runs for 11 months each year. A major part of the course is the research project. At the end of the course students submit their dissertations and present their research as posters.
To mark the final day of the course the MSc students present their posters for assessment, and to enable fellow students, staff and guests an opportunity to discuss the research projects.
On Thursday 29 August 2013 the posters were presented in the Ideas Space at Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield. As well as students and staff, members of the Energy Institute attended along with guests from industry including Tata Steel, Rolls Royce and Retsch. Over a buffet lunch the posters were viewed, discussed and judged. The top three posters were awarded prizes by the Yorkshire Branch of the Energy Institute.
The judges praised the high quality of research carried out and, after much discussion, awarded the prizes to:
- 1st Prize: Yahaya Yakubu Umar (Experimental investigation of the stability of hydrogen-biogas jet diffusion flame)
- 2nd Prize: Francesco Mattoli Bisleti (Thermoelectric power generation from waste heat of biomass stove)
- 3rd Prize: Funmilayo Adisa (Application of hazard identification technique to hydraulic fracturing – Shale gas)
The prizes were presented by Professor Phillip Wright, Head of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, and Dr Mohammad Zandi, Chairman of Energy Institute Yorkshire Branch along with the branch committee member Dr Steve Turner.