Awards
The Aeromechanical Systems Group is proud of the high quality of the research carried out by its researchers, as exemplified by the awards and prizes listed below.
Sept 2012 Nathan Phillips and Kevin Knowles won the IMechE George Stephenson Gold Medal for their paper: "Effect of Flapping Kinematics on the Mean Lift of an Insect-like Flapping Wing", Proceedings IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2011, 225 (7), pp 723-736. [ISSN 0954-4100;DOI 10.1177/0954410011401705]
July 2012 PhD student Nathan Phillips won the Lord Kings Norton medal for best Cranfield PhD thesis
June 2011 PhD student Nathan Phillips placed 2nd in the ERCOFTAC “Osborne Reynolds” Prize
May 2012 Nathan Phillips and Kevin Knowles won the IMechE Kenneth Harris James prize for their paper: "Effect of Flapping Kinematics on the Mean Lift of an Insect-like Flapping Wing", Proceedings IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2011, 225 (7), pp 723-736. [ISSN 0954-4100; DOI 10.1177/0954410011401705]
April 2011 PhD student Nathan Phillips won the IMechE Western Aerospace Centre Prize
2011 part-time PhD student Alistair Allsop’s project placed 3rd in the Chief Scientific Advisor’s ranking of current MoD research
2009 PhD student Peter Wilkins’ thesis selected as Faculty submission for Lord Kings Norton medal for best Cranfield PhD thesis
2008 PhD student Peter Wilkins selected as finalist in ERCOFTAC “Osborne Reynolds” Prize
Sept 2007 PhD student Peter Wilkins won IMechE Whittle Reactionaries Prize
Sept-Oct 2007 PhD student Bidur Khanal awarded scholarship for internship at Tohoku University, Japan, for research into prediction of aircraft undercarriage noise
March 2007 PhD student Peter Wilkins won IMechE Western Aerospace Centre prize
April 2007 Salman Ansari, Rafal Zbikowski (Autonomous Systems Group) and Kevin Knowles won IMechE Charles Sharpe Beecher prize for the best paper on an aerospace subject published by the Institution in the previous year. Their winning paper was:
“A Nonlinear Unsteady Aerodynamic Model for Insect-like Flapping Wings in the Hover:”
“Part I. Methodology and Analysis”, Proceedings IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2006, 220 (G2), pp 61-83. [DOI 10.1243/09544100JAERO49]
“Part II. Implementation and Validation”, Proceedings IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2006, 220 (G3), pp 169-186. [DOI 10.1243/09544100JAERO50]
April 2006 PhD student Simon Ritchie won IMechE Western Aerospace Centre Prize
July 2005 PhD student Salman Ansari won Lord Kings Norton medal for best Cranfield PhD thesis
December 2004 PhD student Salman Ansari won Rolls-Royce Section Award at the Special Reception for Britain’s Top Younger Engineers, House of Commons
2004 PhD student Mauro Arruda won second prize in annual IMechE “Whittle Reactionaries” competition
April 2004 PhD student Salman Ansari won IMechE Western Aerospace Centre Prize
December 2002 Kevin Knowles elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
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