This page lists all prizes awarded by the Faculty of Engineering.
Faculty prizes
The Faculty of Engineering Dean's Award (E0493E)
For the best performance in Year 1, 2 or 3 in the Bachelor of Engineering program.
- Certificate
The Malcolm Chaikin Prize For Research Excellence in Engineering (T2K54O)
For the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Engineering.
- $10,000
School of Chemical Engineering
The Fuel Technology Staff Prize (E0144U)
For the best performance in CEIC6005 Fuel and Energy (Chemical Engineering or Chemical Product Engineering student).
- $500
The IChemE Prize (S0489E)
For the best performance in Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Degree.
- $500
The Lyceum Club Thesis Prize (S0480E)
For the best final thesis project presentation by an undergraduate in the School of Chemical Engineering.
- $1000
The Norman Prize in Chemical Engineering (EO460U)
For the best final year thesis project in the School of Chemical Engineering.
- $1500
The Professor Graham Fleet Memorial Prize (S0488E)
For the best performance in FOOD2320 Food Microbiology by an undergraduate student
- $1000
The Samos Polymers Prize in Advanced Polymers (E0486U)
For the best performance by an undergraduate student in CEIC8105 Advanced Polymers.
- $1000
The Samos Polymers Prize in Chemical Product Engineering (E0487U)
For the best performance in Year 2 Chemical Product Engineering.
- $1000
The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Process Design (CE025U)
For the best final year process design project in the School of Chemical Engineering.
- $1000
The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Product Design (CE035U)
For the best final year product design project in the School of Chemical Engineering.
- $1000
The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Undergraduate Chemical Product Engineering (CE045U)
For the best performance in Chemical Product Engineering Undergraduate Degree.
- $500
The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Undergraduate Food Science (CE055U)
For the best performance in Food Science Undergraduate Degree.
- $500
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School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Alexander Wargon Prize (E2K60U)
For the best performance in the Structures Discipline in the Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering degree program.
- $1200
The Australian Steel Institute Undergraduate Steel Design Prize (E2K63U)
For the best performance in CVEN2303 Structural Analysis and Modelling and CVEN3303 Steel Structures.
- Technical books to the value of $440
The Association of Consulting Surveyors' NSW Prize in Land Development (E0215U)
For for the graduating students with the best total mark in Cadastral and Land development courses.
- $1000
The BOSSI Medal (E0953U)
For the best performance in the final year of the Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems.
- Gold Medal
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice Prize (E2K52U)
For the best performance in Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil with Architecture Discipline Prize (E2K67U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Civil Engineering with Architecture.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Construction Management Discipline Prize (E2K590)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours thesis in Construction Management.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Discipline Prize (E2K55U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Environmental Engineering.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical Discipline Prize (E2K59U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Geotechnical Engineering.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Structures Discipline Prize (E2K58U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Structural Engineering.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Surveying Discipline Prize (E2K79I)
For the best performance in Surveying discipline courses.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Transport Discipline Prize (E2K57U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Transport Engineering.
- $1000
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Water Discipline Prize (E2K56U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Water Engineering.
- $1000
The Crawford Munro Memorial Prize (E2K77E)
For the best performance in CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering.
- $500
Engineers Australia Civil and Structural Engineering Prize (E2K66U)
For the best performance in structural design in the final year of the degree.
- $500
The Full Time Class of 1962 Civil Engineering and Surveying Alumni Prize (S0478E)
For the highest WAM at the end of 3rd Year to a local female in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- $1000
The Jacob N Frenkel Prize (E2K62U)
For the best achievement in Civil Engineering for a first year student.
- $1200
The JK Geotechnics Prize (E0179U)
For the best performance in CVEN3202 Soil Mechanics.
- $500
The Maurice Maughan Prize (E2K80E)
For the best student with the best total marks in GMAT2500 Surveying Computations A and GMAT2550 Surveying Computations B.
- $1000
The RS Mather Memorial Prize (E0219U)
For outstanding performance in Geodesy courses in the Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Spatial Information Systems program.
- $500
The Weld Australia Prize (E0182U)
For the best performance of an undergraduate in CVEN3303 Steel Structures
- 12 month membership and a set of technical notes from WTIA worth approx. $950
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School of Computer Science & Engineering
The School of Computer Science & Engineering offer more than 100 prizes.
PRIZES A-B
The Anita Borg Prize (E2K50U)
For contribution to the promotion or enhancement of the benefits of computing to society, including encouraging or facilitating the participation of women in computing and meritorious academic performance.
- $2000
The Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize (S0810E)
For outstanding achievement of a final year student in the School of Computer Science and Engineering.
- $1000
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PRIZES C-E
The CommBank Year 2 Software Engineering Prize (S0250E)
For the student enrolled in Software Engineering with the best WAM for courses completed in the current year.
- $1000
The CommBank Year 3 Software Engineering Prize (S0251E)
For the student enrolled in Software Engineering with the best WAM for courses completed in the current year.
- $1000
The CommBank Year 4 Software Engineering Prize (S0252E)
For the student enrolled in Software Engineering with the best WAM for courses completed in the current year.
- $1000
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 1st Place (S1250E)
For the best performance in COMP4931 Thesis Part B (Software Engineering).
- $2000
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 2nd Prize (S1251E)
For the second best performance in COMP4931 Thesis Part B (Software Engineering).
- $1000
The Displayr COMP4931 Prize, 3rd Place (S1252E)
For the third best performance in COMP4931 Thesis Part B (Software Engineering).
- $500
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PRIZES G-J
The Hero of Operating Systems Prize (CS200I)
For the best performance in Operating Systems.
- $500
The IMC COMP3121 Prize (1st Place) (S1478E)
For the best performance in COMP3121 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.
- $1000
The IMC COMP3121 Prize (2nd Place) (S1479E)
For the second best performance in COMP3121 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.
- $750
The IMC COMP3121 Prize (3rd Place) (S1480E)
For the third best performance in COMP3121 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.
- $500
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 1st Place (S1481E)
For the best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.
- $1000
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 2nd Place (S1482E)
For the second best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.
- $750
The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 3rd Place (S1483E)
For the third best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.
- $500
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 1st Place (S1489E)
For the best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.
- $1000
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 2nd Place (S1490E)
For the second best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.
- $750
The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 3rd Place (S1491E)
For the third best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.
- $500
The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 1st Place (S1492E)
For the best performance in COMP6752 Modelling Concurrent Systems.
- $1000
The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 2nd Place (S1493E)
For the second best performance in COMP6752 Modelling Concurrent Systems.
- $750
The Jane Street COMP6752 Prize, 3rd Place (S1494E)
For the third best performance in COMP6752 Modelling Concurrent Systems.
- $500
The Jane Street COMP4181/9181 Prize, 1st Place (S1486E)
For the best performance in COMP4181/9181 Language-based Software Safety.
- $1000
The Jane Street COMP4181/9181 Prize, 2nd Place (S1486E)
For the second best performance in COMP4181/9181 Language-based Software Safety.
- $750
The Jane Street COMP4181/9181 Prize, 3rd Place (S1486E)
For the third best performance in COMP4181/9181 Language-based Software Safety.
- $500
The Jump Trading Australia Prize (E2607E)
For the best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Prize Operating Systems.
- $1000
The Jump Trading Australia Prize, 2nd Place (E2608E)
For the second best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Operating Systems.
- $500
The Jump Trading Australia Prize, 3rd Place (E2608E)
For the third best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Operating Systems.
- $500
The Jump Operations Australia Prize in Digital Circuit Systems (S0270E)
For the best performance in COMP3222 Digital Circuit and Systems.
- $1000
The Jump Operations Australia Prize in Distributed Systems (S0270E)
For the best performance in COMP9243 Distributed Systems.
- $1000
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PRIZES M-M
The Murray Allen Prize in Computer Science (E2K45U)
For the best performance in Year 3 of the Computer Science program by a student entering the Honours year.
- $3000
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PRIZES N-P
The Niel van der Westhuizen COMP4121 Prize (S0347E)
For the best performance in COMP4121 Advanced and Parallel Algorithms.
- $500
The Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize (S0486E)
For the best PhD Research Paper.
- $2000
The Optiver COMP6771 Prize (S0806A)
For the best performance in COMP6771 Advanced C++ Programming.
- $500
The Optiver SENG3011 Group Prize (S0807A)
For the best presentation by a group in SENG3011 Software Engineering Workshop 3.
- $2000
The Optiver SENG3011 Group Runner-up Prize (S1378E)
For the second best presentation by a group in SENG3011 Software Engineering Workshop 3.
- $1000
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PRIZES Q-W
The ThoughtWorks SENG2011 Prize (S0378E)
For First place in SENG2011 Workshop on Resoning about Programs.
- $500
The Wargaming Sydney COMP6741 Prize (S0259E)
For the best performance in COMP6741 Parameterized and Exact Computation.
- $500
The Wargaming Sydney COMP3421 Prize (S0260E)
For the best performance in COMP3421 Computer Graphics.
- $500
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School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
The Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA) Digital Systems Poster Competition Prize (E0199U)
For the top 3 thesis posters.
- First place $700, second place $500, third place $300
The Michael Hintze Memorial Prize in Power Engineering (E0887E)
For the best performance in final year undergraduate Thesis in Energy Systems - Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering)
- $500
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School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
The Best Undergraduate Final Year Thesis Prize (S0468I)
For the best performance in MMAN4020 Thesis B
- $1100 (shared)
The C Madhusudana Prize (E2K05U)
For the best academic performance of a 1st year student in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
- $500
The David Carment Memorial Prize (E0348U)
For the best overall performance in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Naval Architecture.
- $500
The Douglas Archer Prize in Aerospace Engineering (E2K50A)
For the best student graduating with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering.
- $1500
The John Harrison Prize (E0492U)
For the best performance in MMAN2300 Engineering Mechanics 2.
- $500
The Professor Eddie Leonardi Prize (E2K54A)
For the best performance in all undergraduate courses undertaken in years one and two in the Bachelor of Engineering program of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
- $600
The R E Jeffries Memorial Prize (E0462U)
For the best overall performance in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
- $500
The RAA Bryant Prize (E0463U)
For the best student graduating with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- $1500
The RS Components Prize for Engineering Excellence (E0464U)
For the best performance in the final year of the Mechatronic Engineering program.
- Instruments worth $500
The Warwick Slade Royal Aeronautical Society Prize (E0470U)
For the top team performance in AERO4110 Aerospace Design Project by students in the Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering program.
- A medal to the top student from the team and a 1-year Graduate membership of the Society
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School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering
The Behre Dolbear Prize (E2K51E)
For the best thesis.
- $1000
The Behre Dolbear Prize for Best Overall Proficiency (or Performance) in Year 3 (E2K50E)
For overall proficiency in Year 3.
- $1000
The Bruce Hebblewhite Prize in Mining Engineering (E2K54I)
For the best overall performance in Year 4 of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.
- $1000
The Charles Warman Prize (E2K49E)
For the best performance in MINE2810 Minerals and Processing Course.
- $1000
The David Laurence Prize (E2K58I)
For the best overall academic performance in an Honours thesis relating to Sustainable Mining Practices in the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.
- $1000
The David Phillips Prize (E2K56I)
For the best overall performance in Year 3 Resource Estimation and Mine Planning.
- $1000
The Drilling Engineering Award (E2K44U)
For the best performance in PTRL3015 Well Drilling Equipment and Operations.
- $500
The Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Prize (E2K45A)
For the best performance in PTRL4012 Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery.
- $500
The Henry Salisch Student Service Prize (E1K58E)
Awarded to an individual who in the view of the student body has contributed to the wider success of the School of Petroleum Engineering and associated organisations.
- $500
The Jim Galvin Prize (E2K55I)
For the best performance in Year 4 Mine Geotechnical Engineering.
- $1000
The Joan Bath Prize for Women in Mining Engineering (E2K57I)
For the best academic performance by a female in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.
- $1000
The Mitsubishi Prize (E2K47U)
For the best performance in Coal Mine Design Project.
- $1000
The Natural Gas Engineering Prize (E0329U)
For the best performance in PTRL4020 Natural Gas Engineering.
- $500
The New South Wales Minerals Council Prize for Best Overall Performance (or Proficiency) Year 2 (E2K52I)
For the best overall performance in Year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.
- $1000
The New South Wales Minerals Council Prize for Best Performance in Hard Rock Mine Design Course (E2K53I)
For the best overall performance in Year 4 Hardrock Mine Design and Feasibility Project.
- $1000
The Outstanding Year 1 Student (E2K46E)
For outstanding performance in Year 1 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.
- $500
The Outstanding Year 2 Student (E2K47E)
For outstanding performance in Year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.
- $500
The Outstanding Year 3 Student Prize (E0324U)
For outstanding performance in Year 3 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.
- $500
The Outstanding Year 4 Student Prize (E1K50E)
For outstanding performance in Year 4 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.
- $500
The Outstanding Postgraduate Coursework Student Prize (E1K51E)
For the outstanding performance in Postgraduate Coursework in Petroleum Engineering.
- $500
The Outstanding Postgraduate Research Student Prize (E1K52E)
For the outstanding performance in Postgraduate Research in Petroleum Engineering.
- $500
The Petroleum Economics Prize (E0325U)
For the best performance in PTRL3025 Petroleum Economics.
- $500
The Reservoir Engineering Prize (E0326U)
For the best cumulative performance in PTRL2019 Reservoir Engineering A and PTRL3001 Reservoir Engineering B.
- $500
The Roxborough Prize (E2K48U)
For the best performance in Year 1 in Mining Engineering.
- $500 and a bronze medal
The Stan Sawyer Memorial Prize (E0466U)
For the best performance in an Honours thesis on a topic relating to coal mining in the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.
- $750
The Student Leadership Prize (E1K59E)
Awarded for exemplary student leadership.
- $500
The Surface Facilities Design Project Prize (E2K43U)
For the best performance in PTRL3022 Design Project for Petroleum Engineers.
- $500
The Thesis Project Prize (E1K57E)
For the best performance in PTRL4010 Integrated Oil and Gas Field Evaluation A.
- $500
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School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering
The BT Imaging Photovoltaic Thesis Prize (S0402E)
For the best performance in Photovoltaics Materials and Devices.
- $500
The Solar Juice Renewable Energy Thesis Prize (S0401E)
For the best performance in Renewable Energy Thesis.
- $500
The Steve Robinson Memorial Prize (E2K46C)
For the best performance in SOLA9002 Solar Cells and Systems in the Master of Engineering Science or Doctor of Philosophy program.
- $500