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Engineering Education Scheme Scotland The Annual Exhibition and Awards Day event was recently held at New Lanark Visitor Centre. Four teams were presented with awards on the day, these are shown below (click on the picture to see larger version). Our thanks to the company engineers, teachers, students and sponsors for making the event such a success. For more details of projects completed by the teams please see the photographs section below.

John R Muckersie Award for exemplification of team spirit and presistence in pursuit of project work was awarded to Bannockburn High School working with Tensarc.
	Photographed (L-R) Carlene Anderson, Sandy Frame, Robert Gouther, KellyMarie Horsburgh, Teacher-Graeme Miller & Mrs Sandra Muckersie

Glasgow Caledonian University Award for design excellence was awarded to Kilsyth Academy working with Walker Precision Engineering Ltd.
	Photographed (L-R) are Gordon Harper, Colin Pearce, Melanie Barrie and Victoria Truesdale.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Award for application of mechanical principles was awarded to Woodmill High School working with Babcock Engineering Services.
	Photographed (L-R) are Douglas Clark, Lynsey McLeod, Teacher - Ian Simpson, Dr John Paul - IMechE and Calum Gourlay. Missing from photograph is Rebecca Devaney

The Scottish Engineering Award for effective collaboration between school and company was awarded to Falkirk High School working with British Waterways.
	Photographed (L-R) are Stewart Milne, Jeff Adams, Emma Harte, Jenna Lake Teacher - Barry Whiteley and Dr Peter Hughes - Scottish Engineering.

The Royal Academy of Engineering Award in recognition of overall creative excellence was awarded to Merchiston Castle School working with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre.
	Photographed (L-R) are Richard Muckle, Mark Sloan, Jamie Loudon, Christopher Young, Dr Robert Ditchfield - Royal Academy of Engineering and Teacher - Wendy Morgan
Engineering Education Scheme Team Photographs 17 teams from all over Scotland participated in this years Engineering Education Scheme. Each team is partnered by a local company who provide an industrial project. Photographs of the student teams are pictured below.


Breadalbane Academy Working with Scottish and Southern Energy (Perthshire) to utilise the waste heat from a generator.	Forfar Academy Working with Angus Council Roads Department on sustainable urban drainage systems.	Forfar Academy Working with Wood Group LIT to devise a method of measuring & recording individual nozzel guide cane throat areas.

Gordon Schools Working with Schlumberger Sub-sea to design a device to join two sections of Riser quickly.	Speyside High School Working with Subsea 7 to design a ROV training suite.	Bannockburn High School Working with Tensarc to design a garden canopy tensioning system.

Dunfermline High School Working with Alenia Marconi Systems to design a robot for the detection of surface landmines	Falkirk High School Working with British Waterways to design a remote control for a hydraulic lifting bridge	Inverness Royal Academy Working with Highlands& Islands Airports Ltd on aviation fire fighting.

Stewart's Melville College & Mary Erskine School Working with BAE Systems to design devices for producing an angular deflection and translation of an optical beam	Merchiston Castle School Working with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre to evaluate different micro switches and motion sensors.	The Royal High School Working with MacTaggart Scott & Co Ltd to reduce the noise within a ships hydraulic ring main systems.

Woodmill High School Working with Babcock Design & Technology to design a new support trolley for paxman diesel generators.	Bearsden Academy Working with Network Rail to design an automatic track warning system for rail engineers.	Bearsden Academy Working with BAE Systems Naval Ships to investigate problems involved in the transport of military vehicles embarking & disembarking off a ship.

Hutcheson's Grammar School Working with Rolls-Royce plc to decrease the time taken for the laser powder fusion welding method.	Kilsyth Academy Working with Walker Precision Engineering on mobile telephone handset production line technology.

Royal Academy of Engineering
The Royal Academy of Engineering sponsor the Engineering Education Scheme as part of their Best programme. For more details see their Best web site (click here).