Mathematics in Work Competition 2012

Student YinI competition

The competition was held again in 2012 - A photograph of the presentations of a certificate and £100 to the winners of the competition can be seen below. The winning and highly commended exemplars then follow.

Alice Hardy

-Praxair Surface Technologies Ltd

The photo shows Alice receiving her prize from MEI's Programme Leader (Industry) Janice Richards. Daniel Lock (Alice's manager) and Chris Ward (EDT) also attended.

Will Springthorpe

-Delphi Stonehouse

The photo shows Peter Rayner (Will's manager), Janice Richards (MEI), Dave Friday (Director & General Manager, Delphi (Heavy Duty Business)), Will and Chris Ward (EDT).

Exemplars

• The force of wind on a simple frame structure
  Hannah Davies
• Switch mode power supply (SMPS) design
  Ylber Doniku
• Application of trigonometry in design and manufacturing of tooling in the industry
  Sina Fattahi
• Using Mathematics to allow plasma spray guns to coat parts with complex geometrics
  Alice Hardy
• The application of integration to measure volumes
  William Springthorpe
• Using stresses to determine the wall thickness of a natural gas saturator
  Maryam Sufi
• Calculating the cost of steam leaks
  Guy Wilson