The Branch Student Prize is awarded each year, for the best Final Year Project in the subject area of Structural Engineering. The competition is open to students of all accredited Engineering course in the Branch area.

The nominated student(s) from each University, or Institute of Technology, will be invited to present their work at an evening meeting, in October, and answer questions from the public and the judging panel. The winning student(s) will be notified the week after the presentations, and invited to attend the Annual Dinner in February. At this event, the winning student(s) will be presented with a certificate of merit and monetary prize by the President of the Institution. The runners-up will be invited to attend the President’s Address, also in February, where they will be presented with their certificates. Exact dates and times of these events will be confirmed in due course.

The nominees from each Institution should be supplied, by 18 June 2010, by completing the Application Form and forwarding it to the Institution’s Republic of Ireland Branch office;

The Institution of Structural Engineers, c/o Ms Una Cribbin, Dept. of Civil & Structural Engineering, DIT Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

The rules of the competition, as well as the relevant forms, can be downloaded here.

Previous Winners:

Year	Winner	Project Title	University or Institute of Technology
2010	Breiffni Fitzgerald	A dynamic programming algorithm for optimization of composite steel box girder bridges under static and dynamic loading	Trinity College, Dublin
2008/09*	Paul Doyle	Steel Plate Girders With Corrugated Webs	Dublin Institute of Technology
2007	Finian McCann & Colm Gannon	Three-dimensional Frame	NUI Galway
2006	Aonghus O’Keeffe & Mark Dolan	Determination of Bridge Natural Frequencies using an Instrumented Vehicle	University College Dublin
2005	Emma Sheils	A Finite Element Analysis of the Old and New Tacoma Narrows Bridge	Trinity College, Dublin
2004	Gavin O’Connell & Cillian Rowley	The Development of a Weigh-in-Motion Algorithm for Two Trucks on a Bridge	University College Dublin
2003	Shane Colwell	Study on Liquid Tanks for Suppressing Vibrations in Structures	Trinity College, Dublin

* The Student Prize was only awarded once between 2008 and 2009 due to changes in the Institution calender.