Young engineers in poll position

IMechE's Formula Student sets record at F1's home

More than 2,000 students competed for the tenth anniversary of IMechE's Formula Student (FS) at Silverstone last weekend. This is the largest number of entrants yet, and all corners of the globe were represented. As well as over 30 UK teams, countries from as far a field as Korea, the United States, Finland, India, Japan and Iran took part. IMechE members were also there to spectate.

The event challenges teams of engineering students to design, build and compete with their own single-seater F1-style car, and is backed by leading F1 figures. Ross Brawn, former Technical Director at Scuderia Ferrari, is Patron of FS and opened the event and, Gary Savage, Operations Director at Honda Racing F1, which is one of the event's partners, spoke at the awards ceremony. Students must be excellent engineers, work together as a team and develop strong business skills. This winning formula means that many universities are adding FS to their courses, with students often taking part as their final-year project.   The overall winner was RMIT University, Australia. The highest ranking UK team was the University of Bath with a Yamaha R6-powered car weighing 196.5lb.
Click here for more information and the winners.		Overall winner RMIT University, Australia

Manufacturing sets the trend

MX awards celebrate sector successes

		Trend Control Systems, a business within Honeywell Automation and Controls Solutions, staved off competition from hundreds of the UK's most robust firms in the manufacturing and business world to win the top award at IMechE's Manufacturing Excellence Awards (MX), which is sponsored by the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS).
MX entrants receive free benchmark reports

 

The firm also won the Warwick Manufacturing Group Award for Logistics and Resource Efficiency. Based in Horsham, the firm's products include building control hardware such as supervisor software, valves and actuators, sensors and motor controls. Presenting the award was Industry Minister Margaret Hodge MP.
 

This year a new award - the Arup Award for Sustainable Manufacturing - was launched. The winner, Agfa Graphics, has changed its processes to substantially reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfill. Also for the first time, the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Award for Diversity and Inclusion was presented. DuPont took the coveted award after years of no company quite reaching the necessary high standards.

 

Click here for more information and the full list of winners.