Overview
The 2016 Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards is hosted by the IET and the IMechE.
Competition finalists will present at the awards on the 25 February 2016 in London in a bid to win one of several prices, outlined below.
Deadline extended until 13th January 2016.
Download the competition guidelines
Awards:
IET Dennis Hill Award (£300)
The Dennis Hill prize is awarded annually to the student on an MEng or MSc programme who has, during the past year, submitted the best final year project dissertation in the general field of Biomedical Engineering and cognate subjects (including Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Physics, Healthcare Technologies and Health Informatics).
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IET J.A Lodge Award (£500)
The J. A. Lodge Award is open to all Electronic or Electrical Engineers working at the early stage of their careers in the field of research and development within Biomedical Engineering. For applicants in universities, this corresponds to being in the final year of a PhD programme, or having recently completed their PhD (PhD degree not conferred before January 2011).
For applicants in industry, this corresponds to being within ten years of graduating from their last degree (PhD degree not conferred before January 2006).
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IET William James Award (£400)
The award is presented to encourage, support and recognise outstanding work of PhD students demonstrating a high level of commitment and advanced understanding of Biomedical Engineering.
William James Award is open to all PhD students in the field of Biomedical Engineering, entries must be submitted before the degree is conferred.
Any contribution by others to the work submitted must be made clear in the application.
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IMechE Vicon Award: (£250)
The competition is open to recent graduates (2015), third/fourth year undergraduates and taught Masters degree course students, who have completed or are working on a BioMedical Engineering project.
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Download application form
IMechE: (£250)
The competition is open to those who passed their PhD viva in the field of Biomedical Engineering between 2014 and 2015.
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Download application form
IMechE and IET Poster Session
All entries who satisfy our quality criteria but are not selected for a podium presentation will be entered into the relevant poster category competition.
Key dates:
Submission deadline: 13 January 2016
Notification deadline: 25 January 2016
Please note that no expenses are available to travel to London to present your work.