The Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre Limited (AMCRC), today
announced its “Advanced Manufacturing CRC Student Prize 2011”.
The Student Prize is a new competition award designed to encourage students to
develop medical technology that will reflect a very high level of innovative thinking in
advanced technology.
The competition is for the best overall proposal of a medical/health technology project
judged to be worthy of funding by the AMCRC. An element of manufacturing or the
creation of intellectual property suitable for eventual manufacture must be a project
feature.
“We are committed to encouraging high quality research and innovative thinking with
our partner research institutions,” said Bruce Grey Managing Director of AMCRC.
“We will offer the $5,000.00 student prize to individual students or teams of RMIT
University. In the latter case, the cash value of the prize will be awarded to the
nominated principal of the team.”
Professor Daine Alcorn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation and
Vice-President RMIT University said the launch of the AMCRC RMIT University
Student Award reflected the positive partnership between the two organisations and
their shared support for the development of manufacturing technologies in the
medical sector.
“In terms of the importance of Advanced Manufacturing to the national economy, it is
vital to instill the importance of innovation into our students,” said Professor Alcorn.
“RMIT is very supportive of the AMCRC prize.”
Who is eligible to enter?
Current enrolled Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from the following RMIT College of Science Engineering and Health Schools:
- Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Applied Sciences
- Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Computer Science and IT
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Health Sciences
- Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences
- Medical Sciences
Judging
The award is made to the most deserving case, submitted on the AMCRC Preliminary
Project Proposal Form, as judged by AMCRC Commercialisation and Research
Managers, whose decision will be final with no further correspondence entered into.
The AMCRC will take into account its Innovation Assessment Tool in assessing the
proposals. No prize will be awarded if the Judge determines that there is not a
proposal of sufficient standard. The standard applied by the Judge is the standard
routinely applied in assessing potential projects for further development by the
AMCRC.
For further Information
AMCRC Jacqui Martin on 03 9214 4780 jacqui.martin@amcrc.com.au
Media enquiries to Marjorie Johnston AMCRC PR Consultant on 0407 329 430
marjorie@wordmakers.com.au
