Background

In order to try to raise the awareness of Engineering as a career amongst young people in Furness, the Barrow and District Association of Engineers runs an annual bursary known as "The Young Engineers’ Awards".

The Association itself and a number of engineering companies in the district sponsor this. It is of concern to the Barrow and District Association of Engineers, and to many others also, that so few young people are entering the engineering profession. It is in an effort to reverse this trend that the Association instituted this award at the instigation of a former BDAE President, Mr Tony Peak, in 1998. It is intended that the bursary is used to purchase books or other equipment to enable the recipient to further their education.

All awards are presented at the Association’s November lecture.

Student Bursary Awards

Student Bursaries are awarded to students at Barrow Sixth Form College, Ulverston Victoria High School, Millom School and Chetwynde School, on the basis of their results in AS level examinations in Science and Technology subjects taken at the end of their first year of sixth form studies, together with their enthusiasm for engineering activities.

A student winner from each institution is nominated by his or her teachers, these nominations are ratified by a BDAE Bursary Committee which, in addition, selects an overall winner on the basis of detail provided by the school.

Apprentice Bursary Award

In 2000, following various discussions and having achieved a suitable level of sponsorship, the student bursary was extended into the area of the Engineering Apprenticeships in the Furness area with an award to be known as the BDAE Apprentice Bursary to be made at the end of the apprentice’s first year.

The apprentice award will be based initially upon academic qualification and performance in first year studies together with enthusiasm for engineering and practical ability. The Association placed emphasis on the academic as it wishes to encourage academic apprentices and show that the traditional university route is not the only way to a degree, a high flying career and a position of leadership in the industry.

By preference, the award will be based upon nominations of apprentices from the local Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs), but can also based upon a nomination from amongst Furness College apprentice students.

Conditions

i) To be known as "The Young Engineers’ Awards" sponsored by the Barrow and District Association of Engineers.

ii) The awards are made for the purpose of purchasing books or equipment to enable the recipient to further his or her education in an enhanced manner.

iii) The student awards are open to students of Barrow, Millom, Ulverston or Chetwynde 6th Forms studying A Level science subjects with a view to taking a Science or Engineering degree at University, and are judged on the basis of AS level results from exams taken at the end of the first year of sixth form.

iv) The apprentice awards are open to first year apprentices in the employment of locally based SMEs and/or enrolled in apprentice engineering courses at Furness College.

v) The award winners are confirmed by a vetting panel made up of members of the Association.

vi) The awards are presented at the Association’s November lecture which is held normally in the third week of that month. Representatives from all participating schools are invited as is the local media. Recipients are expected to attend and must inform BDAE of the reason if they are unable to be present.

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Previous Winners                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

2011 BDAE ANNUAL BURSARY PRESENTATION                                       

Presentation by Greg Foote - TV Science Presenter

        2011         Winners                                                                                               

Apprentice    Sean Harris,            £200    BAE Systems

Students        Andrew Morrall       £175    Barrow 6th Form College

                        Ashton Coward       £175    Chetwynde

                        Tommy Moore         £175    Ulverston Victoria High School

            Best of the Best

                        Sarah White             £250     Millom 6th Form

                        Sam Tickle               £250     Ulverston Victoria High School

                                                                                                                                        Sam            Ashton        Greg        Sean        Tommy      Andrew      Sarah                    Bob            Greg            Tim     Andrew    Ashton      Sam      Sarah

                                                                                                                                       Tickle           Coward      Foote      Harris        Moore        Morrall       White                Pointing        Foote         Bushell  Morrall    Coward    Tickle     White

                                                                                                                                                                            (Presenter)                                                                                     (BDAE     (Presenter)  (Bursary    Tommy   Sean

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  President)                      Organiser)   Moore   Harris

                    The audience about to get the cups blown off their heads                                                Presenter Greg Foote with a "Flame Tornado"                                    Solid Custard, Static Electricity and the final Dry Ice Explosion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (You had to be there)

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2010 BDAE ANNUAL BURSARY PRESENTATION

Introduction by Dr Tim Bushell of Oxley Developments

Presentation by Nigel Allan Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Vauxhall Astra at Ellesmere Port

2010       Winners

                                                                                                                       Back       Ian Crawford  Rhys Parkey  Michael Asghar  Jonathan Benson  Tim Bushell

                                                                                                                                       Front           Ryan Semmut-Ghigo   Nigel Allan    Holly Furness  Bethany Knowles  Bob Pointing

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2009 BDAE ANNUAL BURSARY PRESENTATION

Introduction by Dr Tim Bushell of Oxley Developments

      2009       Winners

Lewis Raine           £250    (Chetwynde)

Scott Houston        £250    (UVHS)

Peter Jesson         £250    (6th Form College)

Alex Holmes          £250    (BAE Systems - Apprentice award)

Dr Tim Bushell    Simon Harris          Lewis Raine                Peter Gillett

               Ian Crawford          Scott Houston                  Alex Holmes                 Peter Jesson

     Alex Holmes receives the           Scott Houston receives his Schools            Peter Jesson receives his Schools                Lewis Raine receives his Schools

      Apprentice award from              Bursary award from Simon Harris             Bursary award from Simon Harris               Bursary award from Simon Harris

              Simon Harris

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2008 BDAE ANNUAL BURSARY PRESENTATION

Introduction by Dr Tim Bushell of Oxley Developments

      2008       Winners

Thomas Willison-Parry   £250    (Chetwynde)

Lucy Binfield                    £250    (UVHS)

Alison Fryer                     £250    (6th Form College)

Ross Crawford                £250    (CNC Foundation - Apprentice award)

                               Dr Tim Leverton                                Ian Crawshaw

Peter Gillett        Lucy Binfield    Alison Fryer    Tim Bushell

 Thomas Willison-Perry            Ross Crawford

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2007 BDAE ANNUAL BURSARY PRESENTATION

Introduction by Dr Tim Bushell of Oxley Developments

The Awards, first presented in 1998 are sponsored by BDAE and local engineering companies or companies which depend on engineering, all concerned at the shortfall in young people entering Engineering.

This has recently been recognised nationally with the Government expressing concern about the dwindling applicants for and rolls in Science and Engineering further education courses and subsequently engineering as a profession.

We now see the results of this locally, the sixth form college has started engineering courses, and as you may be aware that the Royal Academy of Engineering has designated our area to pioneer the Barrow Engineering Project which Ed Elvish who until recently was Principal of the Sixth Form College will be lead and I’m delighted to welcome Ed here tonight to assist with the presentation of the Bursary Awards and tell us a little about the project.

Engineers design and built the products we all use daily as well as the massive projects we sometimes take for granted.  We will be hearing about one very large project tonight.  I have found my career in engineering to be both fascinating and rewarding.  My father was a civil engineer, he built bridges for a living and with a passion so I had, I guess, a role model of the very best kind.  It is the Association’s hope that the encouragement of the Bursary will awaken such passion in these young people.

Before we move on to the awards themselves, a few words of thanks

Sponsors

FETL, NW Evening Mail, B L Gilbert, Sir John Fisher Foundation, Tritech, Oxley Developments, BAE Systems as well as BDAE.

Schools

I would like to thank staff at these colleges for their support in nominating pupils for this scheme.

2007      Winners

 Will Miners                  £175 (Chetwynde)

Declan Rodger            £175 (Millom)

Ben Backhouse          £175 (Barrow Sixth Form)

Jonathan Wilson         £250 (Ulverston and Best of Best)

James Donnell            £200 Furness College and BAE systems

   Tim Bushell       Ed Elvish              Jonathan Wilson

                       Award Presenter            Ulverston

           Will Miners        Ian Crawshaw    Peter Gillett       James Donnell  Ben Bradshaw  Declan Roger Glyn Cragg

         Chetwynde                                  President            Apprentice         6th form           Millom         Speaker

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2006: The winners of the 9th year of the awards were:

Ulverston Victoria High School                               Jeremy Dykes

Barrow 6th Form College                                        Dominic Wiejak

Apprentice Winner Furness College                         Tara Nesham

Runners up:

Barrow 6th Form College                                         Craig Denham & Oliver Wear

Ulverston Victoria High School                                 Josef Giddings & Richard Kapustynskyj

  Tara Nesham Receives her award from Speaker Mark White, Chief Technical Specialist for Body Structures at Jaguar & Land Rover Product Development, shown arriving in a Jaguar XK on the right.

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2005: The winners of the 8th year of the awards are shown below

                                                                                                                                    James Logie  Mayuri Madrah  Shaun Farquar  Daniel Hutchinson  Sam Lee   Ben Gilbert

                                                                                    Ian Crawshaw    Tim Bushell                                                                                                                         Bill Brooks       Peter Gillett     John Green                Council Members                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Lecturer & Presenter    Secretary      President

Award of £200

The awards were presented by the lecturer Bill Brooks who had earlier flown into Walney International Airport in his own small plane

Also on display was a selection of Science & Technology work carried out by students at UVHS

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2004: The winners in the 7th year of the awards were:-

                                                                                                                                                                                             Paul Wrathall   Matthew Rooke

                                                                                                                        John Green        Cliff Roberts      Ian Sergent                                                         Peter Gillett    Ian Crawshaw

Mathew Rooke: Ulverston Victoria High School

Best of the best £150.     Bursary award £100

Peter Graham: Barrow 6th Form College

Bursary award £100

First Year Apprentice Award

Paul Wrathall: Rathbone CI

Award of £200

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2003: The 6th year winners were:-

Jennifer Bushell:  Barrow 6th Form College

Best of the Best £150    Shared Bursary award £50 (Shared with Jon Turner of 6th Form College)

Jon Turner: Barrow 6th Form College    Kyle Betteridge: Millom School    Luke Tighe: Ulverston Victoria    Anthony Kent: Chetwynde School

Shared Bursary award £50                     Bursary award £100                         Bursary award £100                     Bursary award £100

First Year Apprentice Award:

Adam Mawson   (BAE SYSTEMS)

Award of £200  

The awards were made by Ian Serjent

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2002: The winners in the fifth year of the Bursary awards were; First - Christopher Joyce of Victoria High School, Ulverston. Second - Christopher Polmear of Millom School. Third - Kirsten Shankland of Parkview School, Barrow. A special award was made at the discretion of the Council of the Association to Andrew Duigan of Walney School

Improvers awards were given to Adam Cartmel, Parkview; William Crook, Walney; Katie Laisby, Cartmel Priory; Adam Redhead, Millom; Steven Errington Victoria High.

The Apprentice Award, in its second year, went to Simon Darby of Furness Heating Components.

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2001: This the fourth year of the awards saw the following Bursary winners; First - Corinne Berry of Victoria High School, Ulverston. Second - Howard Falconer of Millom School. Third - Sanjeeth Karat of Parkview School, Barrow.

The Improvers awards went to Joanne Duff, Alfred Barrow; Lee Castle, Dowdales; Christopher Thompson, Parkview; William Oxley, St Bernards; Thomas Carswell, Thorncliffe; Janice Tucker, Walney; Sarah Littlewood, Cartmel Priory; Paul Jeffery, Millom; Stephen Dickinson, Victoria High; Andrew McKeever, Chetwynde.

The Apprentice award made for the first time this year went to Michael Callister, a plumber apprentice with the Ward Group.

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2000:  The continuing sponsorship has allowed us this year to make the main bursary awards and in addition the first set of awards to the most improved student in engineering subjects in each school. The awards were presented at an extremely interesting lecture in November on the Formula Student Racing Car designed, procured and built by students at Lancaster University, and the bursaries were awarded as follows:- First Gregory Foot of Victoria High, Second Caroline Hufton of Dowdales, Third equal Christopher Plant of Parkview and Daniel Sharpe of St Bernard's.

The Improvers awards were also made to Daniel McGowan, Alfred Barrow; Chris Townson, Dowdales; Mark Saunders, Parkview; Kelly-Marie Hartley, St Bernard's; Gavin Morgan, Thorncliffe; Stuart Eccles, Walney; Nicola Rogers, Cartmel Priory; Adam McCullogh, John Ruskin; Wayne Pattinson, Millom; James Davidson, Victoria High.

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1999: Due to additional sponsorship from a number of firms in the district involved in a wide variety of engineering pursuits, three bursaries were given valued at £100, £75 and £25 respectively. These were won by Frazer Daly of Millom School, David Howarth of Victoria High, and as third was too close to separate Alex Patterson of St Bernards and Paul Wright of Walney School. All of whom have gone on to do 'A' level studies. They report that these are going well and they are now involved in University applications and interviews. We hope to hear of their continued success in 2001.

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1998: The first year of the award, two bursaries were given and were won by Oliver Gray of Cartmel School who has now successfully completed his studies at Barrow 6th Form College and Catriona MacKinnon of Ulverston Victoria who has also successfully completed her studies in their 6th Form. Both have done extremely well even though Catriona was inclining towards veterinary studies. Both have now embarked on degree courses, Oliver at Warwick doing Mathematics and Physics and Catriona at Edinburgh doing Veterinary Science. The Association wishes them all the best for the future and looks forward to reporting their further progress.