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Terex launch Design Awards for Engineering Students at Jordanstown
Terex companies Powerscreen in Dungannon and Terex Finlay in Omagh have launched the second year of the prestigious Terex Engineering Design Awards where students can win cash prizes of £1000 and £500, use the project marking towards their final exam results and attend a gala awards ceremony.
This is a new and unique initiative between the Material Processing Division of the world's third largest construction company and the University of Ulster Engineering Dept and is open to final year students studying towards the BSc in Engineering Management, BSc in Technology with Design, BSc Mechanical Engineering or BSc Engineering with Specialisms.
Student Claire Trainor who attended the launch commented on what the design awards mean to her, 'I am hoping to work in manufacturing engineering when I graduate and this live project will give me the right challenge. Working as a team is interesting as we all have different backgrounds and ideas and of course everyone is keen for their team to win and this level of competition raises the bar for everyone.'
Kieran Hegarty, Vice President of Terex Materials Processing Group responded, 'Every year Terex recruit graduate engineers into the business. They are the new life blood of the organization. In fact we are pleased that several of last year's entrants have now joined Terex. The awards serve two main objectives, firstly the project involves a challenging live task for a multi national company where the marking goes towards overall exam results and secondly it raises the profile of Terex as a viable choice for the engineering career path once the student has graduated. With so much of the manufacturing industry relocating to the East and many of our young brains leaving Northern Ireland to seek pastures new we see this initiative as an opportunity to cement relationships between local industry and local brainpower. However, for those interested in incorporating travel into their career secondments are available in the USA and Asia.'
Robin Clarke of the University of Ulster explains about the relevance of this year's competition in engineering terms, ' Dry Screening is the separation of material from different sized products, by passing it through a series of different sized vibrating meshes or grids, which act like a sieve . The material then falls onto attached conveyors to stockpile the end products ready to use in the building and construction industries. As Powerscreen and Terex Finlay are already developing bigger machines in response to market demands, our engineers have to design a new larger vibrating grid. This is a terrific opportunity for students to work on a live commercial engineering project, giving them hands-on experience of a real project with the normal money and time constraints of industry.'