School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • 123 Stranmillis Road, Ashby Building

    BT9 5AH Belfast

    United Kingdom

Prizes

1st rank in PhD Entrance Exam in Mechanical Engineering

Seyedyaser Mahmoudi Larimi (Recipient), 2011

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entrance examination
mechanical engineering
student

2009 Composite Award ( for published work of particular merit in the field of composites), Harkin-Jones, E., Figiel, L., Spencer, P., Abu-Zurayk, R., Al-Shabib, W., Chan, V., Rajeev, R., Soon, K., Buckley, P., Sweeney, J., Menary, G., Armstrong, C., Assen

Eileen Harkin-Jones (Recipient), 2009

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A. T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics

Yan Jin (Recipient), 18 Aug 2019

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File
Kinematics
Robots

AIAA Aviation Technology Integration and Operations Forum Best Paper Award

Juliana Early (Recipient), Sep 2010

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Aviation
Air

AIAA Certificate of Distinguished Service

Danielle Soban (Recipient), 2008

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Aircraft

ASME IGTI Outstanding Service Award for outstanding contributions, commitment and service to the Turbomachinery Committee

Stephen Spence (Recipient), 2016

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Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Seyedyaser Mahmoudi Larimi (Recipient), 2015

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Australian Leadership award

Brian Falzon (Recipient), 2009

Prize: National/international honour

Awarded "Best Paper of 2016" by the editors of Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine

Susan Clarke (Recipient) & Fraser Buchanan (Recipient), 06 Sep 2017

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Medicine

Bernard Crossland Award

Rauri McCool (Recipient), 2006

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Best Conference Paper Finalist

Yan Jin (Recipient), 27 Jul 2012

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Kinematics

Best Oral Presentation

Eoin Cunningham (Recipient), 15 Jun 2008

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Best Paper: 32nd International Manufacturing Conference

Trevor Robinson (Recipient), 04 Sep 2015

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Best Paper Award, Recognition as first author on a top cited paper contributing to Renewable Energy’s 2014 Impact Factor, Renewable Energy (Elsevier)

Aoife Foley (Recipient), 2014

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Best Paper Gold Award: 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

Sakil Barbhuiya (Recipient), Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Recipient), Mark Price (Recipient), Trevor Robinson (Recipient), Declan Nolan (Recipient), Wei Zhang (Recipient) & Stephen Kyle (Recipient), 12 Sep 2019

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Manufacturing

Best Paper Nomination, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meet, Denver, Colorado, USA

Juan Yan (Recipient), Kang Li (Recipient), Erwei Bai (Recipient) & Aoife Foley (Recipient), 2015

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Best Paper presented at Digital Enterprise Technology 2016

Roisin McConnell (Recipient), Joseph Butterfield (Recipient), Karen Rafferty (Recipient) & Mark Price (Recipient), 01 Mar 2016

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Industry

Best Paper Prize 2012 - for best paper in Journal of Materials and Design (Part L) "Thermoforming Carbon Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites", R McCool, A Murphy, R Wilson, Z Jiang, M Price, J Butterfield, P Hornsby

Mark Price (Recipient), 2012

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Fiber-reinforced Composite
Carbon Fiber
Design

Best Paper Prize - for paper entitled "Virtual Environments for Aerospace Assemble & Service Based Process Optimisation" J. Butterfield, R. McConnell, K. Rafferty, M. Price

Mark Price (Recipient), 31 Mar 2016

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Virtual reality

Best Paper Silver Award: 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

Stephen Kyle (Recipient), Declan Nolan (Recipient), Mark Price (Recipient), Wei Zhang (Recipient), Trevor Robinson (Recipient), Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Recipient) & Sakil Barbhuiya (Recipient), 12 Sep 2019

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Manufacturing

Best postgraduate poster award 2018 at Queen’s University Belfast

Vincent McKenna (Recipient), Yan Jin (Recipient) & Adrian Murphy (Recipient), 2018

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Students

Best Student Paper: 25th International Meshing Roundtable

Liang Sun (Recipient), Christopher Tierney (Recipient), Cecil Armstrong (Recipient) & Trevor Robinson (Recipient), Oct 2016

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Best Student Paper (co-author and research supervisor), “A Generalized Aircraft Sizing Method and Application to Electric Aircraft“

Danielle Soban (Recipient), 2005

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Best Student Paper (co-author and supervised research), “A Study of Aircraft Subsystem Impacts within a Value Driven Design Framework”

Danielle Soban (Recipient), 2011

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Best Student Paper Award: 33rd International Manufacturing Conference

Zara Gibson (Recipient), Roisin McConnell (Recipient), Michael McGeown (Recipient), Joseph Butterfield (Recipient), Adelaide Marzano (Recipient), Brian Murphy (Recipient) & Karen Rafferty (Recipient), 01 Sep 2016

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Best Student Paper Award: AIAA SciTech Conference 2018: Model Based Design and Knowledge Based Engineering

Imelda Friel (Recipient), Joseph Butterfield (Recipient), Trevor Robinson (Recipient) & Adelaide Marzano (Recipient), 10 Jan 2018

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Students

Best Student Paper Award: IMIOT & ICSEE Conference 2018

Jonathan Adams (Recipient), Yan Jin (Recipient), David Barnes (Recipient) & Joseph Butterfield (Recipient), 21 Sep 2018

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Best Student Paper Award - "A Study of Aircraft Sub-system Impacts within a Value Driven Design Framework" C Mullan, M Price, D Soban, A Murphy, J Butterfield. "nd International Air Transportation and Operations Symposium, 28-29 March 2011, TU Delft, Netherlands

Mark Price (Recipient), 29 Mar 2011

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Aircraft
Students

Best Student Paper Award - "The Application of an Agent Based Impact Analysis to a Complex Air Traffic management System", G. Davies, M. Price, J. Early, P. Connally, AIAA-2010-9256, 10th Aviation Technology Integration and Operations Forum (ATIO), Fort

Mark Price (Recipient), 2010

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Best technical paper - 20th International Meshing Roundtable

Trevor Robinson (Recipient), 26 Oct 2011

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Decomposition

British Orthopaedic Research Society/ US Orthopaedic Research Society Travelling Research Fellowship Award

Nicholas Dunne (Recipient), 2009

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

CAST PhD Studentship

Seyedyaser Mahmoudi Larimi (Recipient), Jan 2017

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Co-author on winner of Best Student Paper (IMC 32)

Damian Quinn (Recipient), 04 Sep 2015

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supervision
manufacturing
student

Dean's Award on Internationalisation

Yan Jin (Recipient), 19 Dec 2016

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Internationalization
Summer School
Credit

Doctorate Degree Research Scholarship

Seyedyaser Mahmoudi Larimi (Recipient), Sep 2006

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Early Career Researcher Travel Award, European Union COST Action

Aoife Foley (Recipient), 2011

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Educational Awards, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Zhijun Guo (Recipient), Jan 2018

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Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Eileen Harkin-Jones (Recipient), Jul 2011

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Engineering Employers Federation Trophy

Geoffrey Cunningham (Recipient), Sep 2001

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teaching
manufacturing
engineering

EPS Dean's Award in Education

Jonathan Cole (Recipient), 27 Jun 2018

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EPSRC RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) Connector award

Brian Falzon (Recipient), 2018

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ESB Oral Paper Award- Selected for Special Issue of J Material Science: Materials in Medicine, 19 (4) 2008

Nicholas Dunne (Recipient), 09 Sep 2007

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Chitosan
Polymethyl Methacrylate
Biofilms
Medicine
Anti-Bacterial Agents

Euromech Fellowship

Brian Falzon (Recipient), 1999

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ExxonMobil Teaching Fellowship

Trevor Robinson (Recipient), 2012

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

peer group
Teaching
Ireland
engineer
graduate

ExxonMobil Teaching Fellowship

Geoffrey Cunningham (Recipient), Mar 2005

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

engineering
Teaching
applicant
academy
Ireland

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Seyedyaser Mahmoudi Larimi (Recipient), Jun 2018

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

Brian Falzon (Recipient), 2014

Prize: National/international honour

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Global Opportunities Fund: UK-Japan Collaboration Award

Brian Falzon (Recipient), 2006

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Forest R. McFarland Award

Robert Kee (Recipient), Apr 2005

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engineering
leadership
services

Fredrik and Catherine Eaton Fellowship

Xiaolei Zhang (Recipient), Nov 2015

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively