{"id":1458,"date":"2019-07-17T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2019-07-17T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:26:48","slug":"degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/07\/17\/degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Degree and Prize Giving Day for EDA Students &#8211; July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury Cathedral was the magnificent setting for students from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts to receive their degrees on Tuesday 16th July 2019. This was preceded by a Reception and Prize Giving in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, where families, friends and staff celebrated their success.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes were awarded as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Speechlink Multimedia Ltd Prize for the Best Final Year Project with a Therapeutic Application, presented by Pete McLeod, Director, Speech Link Multimedia Ltd, to Rania Kolaghassi and\u00a0Crismary Goncalves.<\/p>\n<p>Teach First\u00a0Prize for Distinguished Performance in Examinations, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, to James Colbran.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts Prize for the Best Final Year Digital Media Project, presented by Dr Mike Green, Programme Chair, Digital Media (Undergraduate), to Edward King.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Engineering and Digital Arts Prize for Innovation and Creativity, presented by Dr Mike Green, Programme Chair,\u00a0 Digital Media (Undergraduate), to Alice Isacila,\u00a0Thanuja Tharmaseelan, and Samuel White.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty of Sciences Rotary Prize for Distinguished Performance in Stage 1,2,3\/4 Examinations, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, to Rania Kolaghassi and\u00a0Camilla Felici.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty of Sciences Dean\u2019s Prize for Outstanding Performance in Examinations, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, to Weixin Zhou.<\/p>\n<p>IEEE Communications Chapter Final Year Prizefor the Best Final Year Undergraduate Project in the Telecommunications Area, presented by Jiangzhou Wang, Professor of Telecommunications to\u00a0Ibrahim Abdulrahman Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>The IET National Prize awarded for Distinction by a Final Year Student on an IET Accredited Course by Chris Read, IET Kent, to Camilla Felici<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems Prize forMost Outstanding Project by a Third Year CSE Student, presented by Rebecca Jaggon, Graduate Systems Engineering, BAE Systems, to Elijah Gould.<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems Prize for Inspiring the Participation of Women in Engineering, presented by Rebecca Jaggon, Graduate Systems Engineering, BAE Systems to Zoey Mairs and\u00a0Sri Murahari.<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems Prize for Inspiring the Participation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities in Engineering, presented by Rebecca Jaggon, Graduate Systems Engineering, BAE Systems, to Aruntujha Ponniah and\u00a0Jenna Seetohul.<\/p>\n<p>Megger Instruments Ltd Prize for Most Outstanding Instrumentation Project, presented by Steve Newman, Head of Continuous Improvement, Megger Instruments Limited, to Martin Barnett.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all our graduates and prize winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury Cathedral was the magnificent setting for students from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts to receive their degrees on Tuesday 16th July 2019. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/07\/17\/degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-july-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}