Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2023
Summary
The Arthur Shercliff Memorial Trust, which was established to promote technical visits abroad by undergraduates and graduate students, offers two scholarships, valued at £2,100 each, one to be awarded in each of the Engineering Departments of Cambridge University and Warwick University.
The origin of the Trust
Arthur Shercliff studied Engineering at Cambridge, and became the founding Professor and Head of Engineering at Warwick University in 1964. He returned to Cambridge as the ICI Hopkinson Chair of Applied Thermodynamics in 1980 and became Head of Department for a brief period before his death from cancer in December 1983.
Arthur had always particularly valued the year he spent studying at Harvard after his first degree. This prompted his family, friends and colleagues to establish the Arthur Shercliff Memorial Trust in 1984, to support technical visits abroad that enable students to enhance their international awareness of engineering in an applied context.
The current Cambridge Trustees are:
- Prof Colm Durkan (Head of Department)
- Prof Matthew Juniper (CUED staff member and Fellow of Trinity, Arthur Shercliff's Cambridge College)
- Dr. Hugh Shercliff (CUED staff member, and Arthur’s son).
Application process
The award is open to current undergraduate and postgraduate students in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick. The Trustees may elect to share the scholarship between more than one applicant.
Applications are particularly encouraged for technical visits relating to any aspect of sustainable development, including energy and environmental impact. However, all high quality applications will be considered.
Applications from student members of CUED should be made to the Head of Department by Friday 24 February 2023. These should consist of:
- an application form;
- a one-page proposal and budget for a technical visit, including the details requested on the application form;
- a sealed reference from an academic staff member (or this may be sent directly to the Head of Department; email acceptable).
Please email all documents to head-office@eng.cam.ac.uk
A short-list of applicants will be called for interview on Friday 3 March 2023 and awards will be announced by Friday 10 March 2023.
Previous Cambridge awards
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Year |
Student (College) |
Project |
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| 2020 | Wassil Janssen (C) |
Cambridge University Caving Club expedition in Austria |
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| 2019 |
Rebecca Donaldson (C) Guy Baker (W)
Ashley Leonard (W) |
Blue Tap Warwick Human Powered Submarine A collaboration regarding the optimisation and fabrication of 4H-SiC superjunction Schottky rectifiers with implanted P-pillars |
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| 2018 |
Sarah Wolman (C)
Naomi Dobson (W)
Samuel Foster (W) |
3D – Printable Medical Device Design in Nepal
The WUSAT-3 project - A technical visit to attend 2nd Symposium of space Educational Activities (SSEA) held at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).
To optimise the design of nanostructured thermoelectric (TE) materials which convert heat directly into electricty and have the potential to reduce fossil fuel consumption and contribute to energy savings. |
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2017 |
Emma Houiellebecq (C) Sorcha Ni Mhuimhneachain (C) Farah Villa Lopez (W) Michael Andronicou (W)
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Post-disaster resilience in Nepal The deployment of renewable technologies in Nepal Fabrication of CMOS acoustic sensors at the Technical University of Madrid Warwick Submarine entry into the International Submarine Races (ISR) 2017 in Maryland USA |
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| 2016 |
Samad Arshad (C)
Tamanna Rahman (W) |
Voluntary engineering work in Tanzania with the University Society Team Cambridge Development initiative Researching sustainable techniques to improve electricity generation and transmission from hydropower systems in rural Uganda |
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| 2015 |
Samantha Passmore (C)
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Research determining the value of education in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Honduras |
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| 2015 |
Team 1. Matthew Shanahan, Richard Freeman, Theo Saville, Rupert Barnard, Verity Armstrong, Jack Fairweather, Stuart Snow (W)
Team2. Alex Hope, Jonny May, Sam Butterworth, Sam Cater, Laura Sparks, Fiona Thomson, Richard Gold, Roxy Fisher (W) |
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2014
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Jonathan Waller (C) Yue Wang (W) |
EcoHouse placement in Brazil Technical Visit to IGCC Power Plant and Poly-generation Projects in China |
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2013 |
Jieyong Luo (C) Bella Nguyen (C) |
Technical visit to China Southern Power Grid Research - slum developments on Quito, Ecuador |
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2013 |
Miss Carrie Eller, Tom Feldman, Jenny Wai and Edward Stiven (W) | Sustainable rural electrification - Kemgesi, Tanzania | |
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2012 |
Miss Jenny Ye Ha (C) |
Technical visit to the USA on Energy Efficiency Finance |
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2012 |
(W) David Watkins; Man Chan; Richard Churchill-Davis; Ben Cowling; Jon Ikin; Chi Lai; Tom Oliphant; Amin Oskrochi & Anna Scura |
Electric Vehicle Grand Prix – Indiana, USA. The evGrandPrix is an annual international event organised by Purdue University when students compete to design, build and race electric vehicles. Warwick students will be entering their modified racing kart. The project demands a high standard of engineering and will enable the students to develop skills such as team work, project management, budgetary control, industrial engagement and the ability to write a technical report, as well as get involved in the future of motorsport and help develop the next generation of engineers |
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2012 |
(W) Ian Allen; Alex Bending; Sarah Chen; Chris Davies; Hannah Rowland & Johannes Windelen |
Optimisation of existing micro hydro power schemes in the Rwenzori District of Uganda. Two main objectives are, to optimise upon previous year’s schemes and to install a second micro hydro generator at Behondo to increase and improve the network to include a local school and hospital. |
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2011 |
Miss Irene Dedoussi (C) |
Participation in a 10 week summer placement at the German Aerospace Centre in Berlin |
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2011 |
Mr Jeffrey Clark (W) |
Coral Farming in Fiji project which concerns works for the Climate Change Adaptation Programme |
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2010 |
Mr Salman Bham (C) |
To participate in the Engineering World Health Summer Institute programme in Tanzania |
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2010 |
Ms Jia Yang (W) |
1-week visit to The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy System in Germany |
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2009 |
Mr Emmanuel Akinluyi (CHR) |
Costa Rica, the Engineering World Health 'Summer Institute' repair and design experience. |
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2009 |
Ms Lucy Fielding (JE) |
World Solar Challenge in Australia |
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2009 |
Ms Hannah McMillan (G) |
World Solar Challenge in Australia |
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2008 |
Ms Amparo Flores (JN) |
Mongolia,sustainability of Innovative Dry Wastewater System at the Erdos Eco-Town Project. |
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2008 |
Mr David Delamore (JN) |
Beijing, China |
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2007 |
Mr Stephen Jones (R) |
Reinforcement of Adobe Housing to Improve Earthquake Resistance in El Salvador |
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2007 |
Mr Laurie Smith (G) |
Mott Macdonald, India |
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2006 |
Mr Ian Ball (CL) |
An evaluation of local NGO water and sanitation provision in the wake of a disaster |
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2006 |
Ms Jo Reeve (EM) |
To help build a school and sanitation block in Ghana |
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2005 |
Andrew Lamb (PEM) |
To undertake four-week ‘Development from the Inside’ course. (Andrew Lamb was director of ‘Engineers without Borders’ ) |
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2004 |
Naomi Romijin (PET) |
Volunteer work in Bangladesh, Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed (CRP), prior to PhD in medical engineering |
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2003 |
Lisa P L Lim |
Technical visit to the USA |
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2002 |
Yunus Sajad Hussein (Q) |
Charitable/organisational work based in Gujarat, India |
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2002 |
Yuen Yoong Leong (Q) |
2-week technical study tour to China |
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2001 |
Judith Elliman (G) |
Charitable project in Belize: construction of a research centre in the Belize rainforest |
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2000 |
Elizabeth Darley (CHU) and Katherine Laver (G) |
Expedition to Ghana - Raleigh International - Engineering with limited resources |
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1999 |
John Martin (SID) |
Central & South America - relief & development work |
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1998 |
Aimee Morgans (PET) |
Expedition, Pump Aid, Zimbabwe |
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1997 |
Riana Gibney (DOW) |
Audi AG, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1996 |
Pippa Smith (CAI) |
Zimbabwe, aid project |
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1995 |
Yijiang Li (CHU) |
Shanghai Cables Ltd, China |
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1995 |
Patric Bravery (CAI) |
Timber Research Institute, Norway |
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1994 |
Ulrike Wegst (N) |
Europe, biomechanics conferences |
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1994 |
PJL Fernandes (HH) |
China, conference |
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1993 |
Toby Wilson (SID) |
Malawi, Africa |
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1993 |
Rachel Stevenson (N) |
Sarek Nat Park, Sweden |
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1992 |
Robin Morris (T) |
San Remo, Italy |
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1992 |
Richard Clark (EM) |
Germany, Industrial Experience |
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1991 |
Piran Mazaheri (DOW) |
Pall Corporation, USA |
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1991 |
Neil Cox (CL) |
Owen Falls, Uganda |
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1990 |
Yvonne Toole (CL) |
USA Visit |
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1990 |
Lucy Maunsell (CL) |
China Visit |
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1989 |
TMG Edwards (CL) |
Kenya - water supply |
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1988 |
Veronica Symons (ED) |
Conference in India |
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1988 |
Timothy Summers (CTH) |
NEI-APE in Delhi |
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1987 |
Raimund J Ober (G) |
Symposium at Phoenix, Arizona |
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1986 |
Stephen Jeffels (R) |
Telecom Australia in Brisbane |
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1985 |
Michael Ferris (CHU) |
Symposium at MIT |
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