On March 27th we held the annual MPG Student Poster event where students from our local universities present their ongoing project work to a panel of judges. This year the event was hosted by Birmingham University - our sincere thanks go to Pietro Tricoli for organising the event in Student Link of the Gisbert Knapp Building of the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. We had 18 excellent posters presented with both post-grad and under-grad submissions from Aston, Birmingham, Coventry, Staffordshire and Warwick. As in previous years, all the posters and accompanying presentations were of a very high standard which made the judging decisions particularly challenging.


In total six prizes were awarded, some sponsored by the IET and others from one corporate sponsors - Wolong.  Our thanks go to all sponsors of the event.


Prizes on the night were awarded to:

• Dhritiman Chakraborty, Warwick - Phonon Transport in Hierarchical Nanostructures

• Syed A Bukhari, Aston - Direct drive synchronous reluctance motor optimised with a Surrogate technique

• Ihechiluru Anya, Coventry - Implementation of an Adaptive Step-size MPPT Controller for Standalone Solar PV Systems

• Max Zoltz, Birmingham - UB e racing

• Luca Bozicov, Coventry - Smart Luggage Tag and Tracker

• Akinyemi Aina, Coventry - MotorVator: Smart Wearable Tracking Device

The MPG congratulate all prize winners and also recognise the hard work put in by all participants in preparing for the event.  We wish them all well as they complete their projects and submit them as part of their course assessment.  Thanks also go to the panel of judges who kindly gave their time to make the event a success.


We are delighted to invite a number of the student participants to present their projects to a forthcoming MPG Event at Austin Court in May.  Details will be published on the MPG Community Website


Pictures of the event are available at https://communities.theiet.org/groups/photos/folder/154/844