{"id":1649,"date":"2019-11-29T15:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:58:46","slug":"degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/11\/29\/degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Degree and Prize Giving Day for EDA Students \u2013 November 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 Friday 22nd November 2019. This was followed 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>Procon Engineering Prize for Best Project on the Advanced Electronic Systems Engineering programme, presented by Dr Mark Hopkins, General and Technical Manager, Procon Engineering, to Wasif Chowdhury.<\/p>\n<p>Rohde &amp; Schwarz Prize for Best Project on a Wireless\/RF related topic presented to Hazim Abdulwahhab Abdulsada Abdulsada (in absentia).<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Electronics, Undergraduate 1st Year Robotics Competition Prize for Best Robot Demonstration presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, Head of School, to Joshua Kolimbarides.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Electronics Cross Channel Robot Competition for Fastest Robot, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, to Benjamin Burke.<\/p>\n<p>The IET on Campus First Year Robotics Prize for Best Overall Design and Performance, presented by Chris Read of IET Kent, to Kikiola Victory Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundry Nuke Prize for Excellence in Compositing presented by Blaine Epsley, Lecturer in Digital Arts and Technologies, awarded to Francesco Ranieri.<\/p>\n<p>The Prize for Character Animation for Excellence in Character Animation presented by Blaine Epsley, to Jay Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Electronics, Undergraduate 2nd Year Group Project Prize, (First Prize winners), presented by Professor Farzin Deravi to Chantal Zorzi, Hasan Jamal, Oleksandr Buzan and Curtis Daniel Nii Adjei Ablorh-Mensah.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Electronics, Undergraduate 2nd Year Group Project Prize, (Second Prize winners), presented by Professor Farzin Deravi to James Dalziel, Selwyn Ezra-Essien, Oliver Hubbard, Justin Edayadiyil, Iciar Ares, Vasily Balashov and Matthew Howes.<\/p>\n<p>The WAVE Optics Master&#8217;s Prize for Excellence in Engineering\/Technology, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, to Phoebe Heath-Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Wurth Electronics Prize for Best Performing Student on Advanced Communications Engineering, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, awarded to Huma Razzaq.<\/p>\n<p>IEEE UKRI Communications Chapter Prize for Best MSc student\/project in the telecommunications field, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, to Hazim Abdulwahhab Abdulsada Abdulsada (in absentia).<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems Prize, for Best Overall MSc Engineering project, presented by Professor Farzin Deravi, to Malin Dyngeland.<\/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 Friday 22nd November 2019. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/11\/29\/degree-and-prize-giving-day-for-eda-students-november-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}