Mike Khaw, Zern Chu Tay and Andrew Lamb from the Department's Solar Electronic Power course and Francis Mills from the Department's Centre for Sustainable Development are Mondialogo Engineering Award prize winners, with special jury recognition awarded for the outstanding quality of the project proposals. The competition is for projects that provide sustainable technical improvements in developing countries.
Mike Khaw, Zern Chu Tay and Andrew Lamb's proposal is to provide solar power to supply electricity for information and communication technologies to an isolated community in Malaysia.
Francis Mills is working with a team on improvement of modern energy services in rural areas of Ghana improving people's standards of living, while reducing forest depletion. The aim is the establishment of a small scale industry pilot project for the development of Jatropha diesel formulation that serves rural communities in Ghana.
Assessment of the projects was based on the following criteria: technical excellence, sustainability, feasibility and intercultural dialogue within the project group. More than 1,700 young engineers and students from 79 countries registered for the contest and formed 412 international teams.
