The winner will receive £1,500 and the Institution Medal, presented at the Annual Awards Dinner in the autumn.
Years of civil war has left Sierra Leone with poor water supplies. Many wells, pumps and other water sources are unusable. The World Bank funded a unicef initiative to locate and assess the situation. Water Point Mapping identifies useable water sources but does not provide information on the water quality. Jack Barrie was part of a team from Edinburgh University working to locate and grade wells. The research is a shared collaboration between the University and Concern Worldwide and was funded by the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
Jack presented his paper at the East of England regional competition at Fitzwilliam College in February winning £250 and a place in the next round. His paper along with others from the rest of the country was considered and is one of three selected for the final to be held in Birmingham on the 27 June. His fellow competitors are from London and the East Midlands.
The Graduate and Student Papers Competition (GSPC) was first introduced in 1951 as the “Institution Medal and Premium (Local Associations) Competition”. The competition is open to all ICE Graduate and Student members with papers on engineering design, research or practice. In addition to rewarding those papers that are innovative and exceptionally written, they also have to be expertly
presented and discussed.
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