19 May 2011
Monash students secure chemical engineering prize
Students from three universities in Victoria, Australia celebrated chemical engineering success last night at the 2011 Clive Pratt prize presentation in North Melbourne.
The Pratt prize is awarded every year in recognition of the best chemical engineering design project submission in Victoria, Australia, and is organized by the Joint Victorian Chemical Engineering Committee (JVCEC).
Sue Yeen Charlene Wee, Alexandra Rodriguez, Daniel Yong, David Bradford, Mohd
Ariff Mohammad Diah and Mingda Wang were all part of the successful Monash
University team that clinched the Best chemical engineering design project submission. Teams from Melbourne University and RMIT University were runners-up.
The winning team will now be entered for the Jacobs Engineering prize which is presented at Chemeca 2011 in September.
The prize is awarded in memory of the late Henry Pratt, a distinguished honorary professorial fellow at Melbourne University. Pratt was instrumental in the set-up the Victorian IChemE Member group and was the first chairman of the National IChemE Committee (1967-68) in Australia.
Prizes were presented by IChemE Fellow Robert Pratt, son of Clive and the event was sponsored by Uhde Shedden, ExxonMobil and Wood Group PSN.
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