2011 Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards

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International recognition and honorarium for the best doctoral research

Results are in!

Emerald seeks to celebrate excellence in engineering research by sponsoring the 2011 Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.

The Awards were open to those who had completed and satisfied examination requirements for a Doctoral award between 1 October 2008 and 1 October 2011, and had not applied for these Awards before.

A cash prize of €1,000 (or currency equivalent) is awarded to the winner of each category, as well as a certificate and the prospect of an offer of publication in the sponsoring journal, either as a full paper or an executive summary, at the Editor’s discretion. All Highly Commended Award winners will receive certificates. This year there were two categories:

Additive manufacturing

Category sponsored by Rapid Prototyping Journal
This category concentrates on rapid product development and additive technologies in a manufacturing environment, although applications within other areas, such as medicine or construction, will also be accepted.

Winner

Dr Yanzhe Yang, GE Global Research Center, USA
"Fabrication of Long-Fiber-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composite using Ultrasonic Consolidation"

Highly Commended

Dr James Gibert, Clemson University, USA
"Dynamics of Ultrasonic Consolidation"

Highly Commended

Dr Evren Yasa, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
"Manufacturing by combining selective laser melting and selective laser erosion/laser re-melting"

Numerical Heat Transfer & CFD

Category sponsored by International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
This category concentrates on the development, refinement and application of methods relating to numerical heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics in a variety of environments and media.

Winner

Dr Rhodri Bevan, Swansea University, UK
"A locally conservative Galerkin approach for subject-specific biofluid dynamics"

"I am very honoured to receive the 2011 Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Numerical Heat Transfer & CFD category. I am thoroughly delighted that my work in the area of computational biomedical flows has been adjudged by an international panel to be of outstanding quality. I would like to thank Emerald for providing this award as an opportunity to promote doctoral research. Finally, I would like to add a special thank you to my supervisors Professor P. Nithiarasu and Dr R. van Loon for their enthusiastic support and guidance."

Award presented at Swansea University, UK
Photo: Dr Rhodri Bevan (right) pictured with Professor Roland Lewis (left)

Highly Commended

Dr Siddhartha Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
"Theoretical Studies on Electrokinetic Transport and Separation in Nanofluidic Channels"

Dr Rubén Sevilla, Swansea University, UK
"NURBS-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM)"
The thesis was completed at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

“It is a great honour for me to receive a Highly Commended award as part of the 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. I highly appreciate this initiative from Emerald and I would like to encourage future candidates to submit the dissertation to this very prestigious award.”

Award presented at Swansea University, UK
Photo: Dr Rubén Sevilla (right) pictured with Professor Roland Lewis (left)

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Judging criteria

Each application was judged, by a panel of experts, on the criteria below. The research must:

1. Significance/implications for theory and practice.
2. Originality and innovation.
3. Appropriateness and application of the methodology.
4. Analysis and presentation of the data.
5. Quality of the literature review.

Winners will be required to submit an unpublished paper, sole- or joint-authored, derived from the research, within six months of winning the Award.

Please note, the decision of the judges is final. Due to the large number of submissions, applicants will not receive any feedback.

Key dates

The closing date for applications was 1 October 2011.

Contact details

For further information or if you have any queries, please contact:

Nelli Rubante
External Relations Assistant
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Tel +44 (0) 1274 785062
Email: nrubante@emeraldinsight.com

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