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The International Young Members Committee (IYMC) opened the IMechE Technical Paper Competition. The competition is open to all International Young Members and non-members of the Institution, we had entries from Student Affiliates, Young Members and Working members.
Through this award, it is aimed to achieve the following objectives
- Develop empirical study skills
- Product development of ideas and conceptual models
- Develop critical reviews
- Develop ideas on the theme
The competition also provides an avenue for future engineers in the undergraduate affiliate members to young members in the industry to voice out their opinions and ideas about Climate Change and what engineers should do.
The results by category
Students Affiliate
1st Prize: Prajwal C
2nd Prize: Shefali Vishwakarma
3rd Prize: Ranjana Kalia
Working Young Members
1st Prize: Ammar Arif Ansari, Ralph Nehme and Gabriel Oommen
2nd Prize: Rajakrishna Kalvala, Arunpreya Kanagarajan and Satyanarayana Sirigina
3rd Prize: Krishna Shashikant Parab
Non Member
1st Prize: Dun Liu
A quote from the IYMC Chair Ankit Sharma:
"We were hugely impressed by the range of environmental topics taken up by the members in this year’s writing competition, and the winners this year showcase the very well researched papers. The IYMC is very pleased to see the enormous response to its very first technical paper writing competition. We will continue to come up with another engaging topic next year"
This year's competition has seen some very high-quality entries. Congratulations to everyone who took part in this competition.
For questions about next year’s competition, contact TechnicalPaperComp@imeche.org