Undergraduate Awards

There are a number of student awards in Process & Chemical Engineering, supported by a range of industry partners, comprising medals, bursaries and scholarships. The awards are presented annually at an awards night to recipients. Details and pictures for the respective awards are below.

Eli Lilly Awards

Eli Lilly have sponsored the 'Eli Lilly Awards for Excellence in Process & Chemical Engineering' at UCC from 2006-7. The Award, which consists of a specially minted silver medal and a cash prize sponsored by Eli Lilly, is made annually to students from each of the four years in Process & Chemical Engineering at UCC on the basis of academic excellence (70%) and contribution to department (30%). Given that the awards are made to a different student each year, students may have up to four chances to enter the Lilly Hall of Fame...  

See Table below for previous recipients:

Janssen Scholarship

Janssen is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical organisations, and is part of the Johnson & Johnson Group of companies, the largest diversified healthcare group in the world. Janssen Pharmaceutical has been manufacturing bulk active pharmaceutical ingredients in Cork since 1981. Janssen Biologics established its operation in Ringaskiddy in 2005 on a 100 acre site producing biomedicines for the treatment of immune related diseases and also new and innovative cancer treatments. 

In 2015, Janssen chose to award a Scholarship to one of our 2nd Year students, which would involve a €2,500 bursary for their 2nd, 3rd and Final years in the programme; Work Placement (no obligation) and Graduate Employment (no obligation).

We are delighted that Janssen chose to establish the Janssen UCC Engineering Scholarship for the benefit of students in the School of Engineering, UCC.

See Table below for previous recipients: 

Abbvie Award for Excellence in Engineering

On January 1, 2013, Abbvie was founded as a global biopharmaceutical company with focus and capabilities to address some of the world’s greatest health challenges. Abbvie has the stability, resources, expertise, and passion to discover, develop and bring to market ground breaking science to solve the biggest health problems that face the world today and tomorrow. 

This award, in recognition of Abbvie's commitment to sustainability and sustainable production, and the importance of sustainability in every facet of their work is an individual award given on the basis of a selection of continuous assessment work taken throughout the module: PE3011 Sustainability and Environmental Protection I.

 This third year module includes topics such as life cycle assessment, water & wastewater treatment, air pollution control and solid waste treatment, as well as consideration of the human impact on the natural environment, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, values, ethics and framings around sustainability and sustainable development and integrative and systems thinking approaches to sustainability.

The award coheres with imperatives of our discipline, as well as those of UCC and the engineering professional bodies around incorporating sustainability and associated values into our programme, and it helps promotes the formation of sustainability literate as well as ethically informed contemporary graduate engineers.

The Abbvie Award for Excellence in Engineering is based on the combined total of marks in the following modules:

PE3009 Pharmaceutical Engineering

PE3013 Process Validation and Quality

PE4002 Optimisation and Continuous Process Improvement

PE4006 Design Project

Thank you to Abbvie for initiating this generous award. It is wonderful to get industry appreciation of the work that the students undertake in the course of their studies, and excellent for them to have opportunities to win awards and accolades such as this. 

See Table below for previous recipients:

PM Group Design Award

The PM Group Design Award was presented for the first time on 23rd November 2016 at the Process & Chemical Engineering Awards Night in the Aula Maxima, UCC. 

PM Group decided that they would like to present an annual award and bursary to a person who completed a design project as part of their fourth year of the BE (Hons) Process and Chemical Engineering, UCC. The award is for best design. It is to be awarded on an annual basis to an individual who excels as part of a design project team.

The individual will be selected based on: -

1. The student’s individual design memo work.
2. The student’s contribution to overall group effort.
3. The students will be informed of selection criteria and assessors at the beginning of the module.

 See Table below for previous recipients: 

MSD Poster Award

The MSD Poster award was presented for the first time on 25th November 2019.  MSD  decided that they would like to present an annual award for the best poster on a Pharmaceutical Engineering theme.  The poster presentation award provides an opportunity for students studying PE3009- Pharmaceutical Engineering to explore the design space in pharmaceutical engineering encouraging, enhanced knowledge in technologies and process developments.

See Table below for previous recipients:

DPS Design Challenge

DPS Group is a global consulting, engineering and construction management company, serving hightech industries around the world

This Design challenge award was presented for the first time on March 29th 2021

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IChemE McNab - Lacey Award

UCC students receive Macnab-Lacey Prize from IChemE All Ireland Chair

The winning UCC student Macnab-Lacey design project team received their award at the UCC Process and Chemical Engineering Annual Awards evening in the Aula Max on 29^th March 2022 from IChemE All Ireland Chair Philip Healy of PM Group. The prize is awarded annually by the IChemE's Sustainability Subject Interest Group to the undergraduate student design project team whose design project submission best shows how chemical engineering practice can contribute to a more sustainable world.

 Awards night presentation can be seen here

The UCC team were joint winners for 2021 with the University of Manchester.

https://www.icheme.org/knowledge/medals-and-prizes/special-interest-groups/macnab-lacey-prize/