Student Showcase

We in the Faculty are justly proud of our students and this page celebrates their successes here at University and outside, both before and after graduation.  Employers who take our students on placement regularly then employ them as graduates.  Our students enter and win university, national and international competitions.  Our graduates who are successful in establishing their own business, or who are in senior positions in business or industry elsewhere, then return here to recruit employees because they know that we produce people with the right skills and the right attitude.

Robotics student Martin Garland was winner with the IET and then won himself the dream job working on the new Mars Rover.

Summer 2009 Robotics students Matt Hayes (level 2) and Ben Smith (level 1) beat the previous year’s champions from University of West England to achieve second place at the national UK Skills Mobile Robotics competition.

Faculty Graduates Dan Ellis, Richard Bishop and Mark Pennington together with  Mark Hanstock in the FCET Electronics Design Centre and Rob Marchant invented and developed a web enabled insulin injection pen which won the Lord Stafford Award in November 2009.

2009 Film Production Technology graduate Jakub Jedrzejewski won second prize in the  best historical documentary competition in the 2009 Imperial War Museum Film Festival Film Technology.  Jakub is currently working in the Polish Fim and TV industry and had to nominate Fiona Graham, one of his former lecturers, to collect his award ashe had too much work on to come to the UK!

Second Year students Oliver Truswell, Stuart Hackshaw, Alistair Little and Matt Holmes won the best Student Drama category at the Royal Television awards November 2009 after impressing the industry panel with their superb second year studies film Olivia at the ceremony presented by TV's Myleene Klass and Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy.