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EMPS Speak and Poster Session
EMPS Speak is a competition for PhD student in the third year of their PhD programme which takes place each year in the EMPS Graduate School. The challenge is for these students to explain their research in non-scientific terms to a lay audience. Each School in the College nominates a candidate who may have to take part in a School heat.The winner of EMPS Speak will go forward to the UCD competition to select the UCD representative for the national Science Speak competition.
Each EMPS Speak candidates have a fifteen minute slot (twelve for presentation, three for questions) and may use any audio-visual aids, illustrations, analogies or examples that will bring their subject to life for the non-specialist audience. Contestants will be judges on how well they explain their own research work.
The speaking competition is followed by a poster session, where research students/groups have an opportunity to display any posters they may have pertaining to their research, and a reception.
The students who took part in EMPS Speak 2010 were:
Ali Tolooyian - 'Modelling of Soil-Structure Interaction' (School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering)
Varun Lahoti - 'Human Red Blood Cell Factory' (School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering)
Luke Conroy - 'Neuroscience's Next Top Model' (School of Computer Science and Informatics)
Charles Nwankire - 'Nano-Engineered Surfaces to Prevent Fouling' (School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering)
Lisa Banahan - 'Shock Horror' (School of Mathematical Sciences)
John Eves - 'The Spin on Magnestism' (School of Physics)
After a hard fought contest, Charles Nwankire and Luke Conroy were declared joint winners with Ali Tolooyian in a close third place. Charles and Luke took part in a head-to-head competition judged by transition year students which was won by Charles who went on to represent UCD in the national Science Speak competition.
