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[January 2003]
MAC Continues to Help Budding Materials Engineers and Scientists
An undergraduate at Oxford University is the latest student to benefit from a new fellowship award offered by Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) to encourage and reward budding materials scientists and engineers. David Armstrong, who is studying materials science at St Ann's College, Oxford, was presented with a certificate and a cheque for £500 by Dr Robert Oscroft of Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Stourport-on-Severn, for achieving the best performance in his first year practical examination.MAC specialises in ceramic components and assemblies for applications in the medical, telecommunications, semiconductor and aerospace markets. The cutting edge technologies involved in developing application-specific ceramics involve the company in ongoing materials research and product development programmes. As a result, the company says it requires people with a passion for pioneering new ideas and making things happen. MAC therefore initiated the University Fellowship Award for selected universities running appropriate undergraduate courses.
In order to ensure that students get maximum benefit from the scheme, MAC allows the category under which the award is offered to vary from university to university. Each department decides upon the criteria in conjunction with MAC and then identifies students to put forward for the award. Candidates can therefore be nominated on the grounds of anything from outstanding academic achievement to original research.
Participating universities currently include Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Manchester and Imperial College, London. The award was first introduced in July 2002.
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