Prizes in UNSW Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering Dean's Award (E0493E)
For the best performance in Year 1, 2 or 3 in the Bachelor of Engineering program.

• Certificate

The Jacobs Australia Prize (T2K54B)- not available in 2024
For the best second year undergraduate student in Engineering.

• $2,500

The Jacobs Australia Engineering Leadership Prize (T2K541)- not available in 2024
For outstanding academic performance in a management subject, and/or outstanding demonstrated leadership in an engineering project, and/or outstanding demonstrated leadership in a professional organisation, and/or outstanding demonstrated leadership in the promotion of the engineering profession.

• $2,750

The Lyceum Club Women in Engineering Student Award for Leadership (S0483E)
In recognition for the conribution of a current Female UNSW student in any year to the cause of promoting women in Engineering.

• $1,000

The Malcolm Chaikin Prize For Research Excellence in Engineering (T2K54O)
For the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Engineering.

• $10,000

The Faculty of Engineering Three Minute Thesis (3MT), 1st Prize (E0493I)
For the best performance in the Faculty of Engineering Heat, Three Minute Thesis.

• $1,500

The Faculty of Engineering Three Minute Thesis (3MT), Runner-up Prize (E0494I)
For the runner-up best performance in the Faculty of Engineering Heat, Three Minute Thesis.

• $750

The Faculty of Engineering Three Minute Thesis (3MT), People's Choice Prize (E0495I)
For the people's choice best performance in the Faculty of Engineering Heat, Three Minute Thesis.

• $500

The Faculty of Engineering Three Minute Thesis (Faculty Heat 2024), THird Prize (E0207I)
For the third best performance in the Faculty of Engineering Heat, Three Minute Thesis in Content and presentation.

• $500

 

Vertically Integrated Projects - Pitch Competition Prize (E165I)
Pitch competition during the Engineering Education Festival. Top 5 teams from the stall review will participate in a pitch competition, where a panel of judges will decide a winner.

• $2000

The Fuel Technology Staff Prize (E0144U)
For the best performance in CEIC6714 Hydrogen Systems Engineering and Economics (Chemical Engineering student).

• $500

The IChemE Prize (S0489E)
For the best performance in Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Degree.

• $500

The Lyceum Club Thesis Prize (S0480E)- not available in 2024
For the best final thesis project presentation by an undergraduate in the School of Chemical Engineering.

• $1000

The Norman Prize in Chemical Engineering (EO460U)
For the best final year thesis project in the School of Chemical Engineering.

• $1500

The Professor Graham Fleet Memorial Prize (S0488E)
For the best performance in FOOD2320 Food Microbiology by an undergraduate student

• $1000

The Samos Polymers Prize in Advanced Polymers (E0486U)
For the best performance by an undergraduate student in CEIC8105 Advanced Polymers.

• $1000

The Samos Polymers Prize in Chemical Product Engineering  (E0487U)
For the best performance in Year 2 Chemical Product Engineering.

• $1000

The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Process Design (CE025U)
For the best final year process design project in the School of Chemical Engineering.

• $1000

The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Product Design (CE035U)
For the best final year product design project in the School of Chemical Engineering.

• $1000

The UNSW Chemical Engineering People's Choice Prize (CE258U)
For the best final year product design project in the School of Chemical Engineering.

• $1000

The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Undergraduate Chemical Product Engineering (CE045U)
For the best performance in Chemical Product Engineering Undergraduate Degree.

• $500

The UNSW Chemical Engineering Prize in Undergraduate Food Science (CE055U)
For the best performance in Food Science Undergraduate Degree.

• $500

 

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The Alexander Wargon Prize (E2K60U)
For the best performance in the Structures Discipline in the Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering degree program.

• $1200

The Australian Steel Institute Undergraduate Steel Design Prize (E2K63U)
For the best performance in CVEN2303 Structural Analysis and Modelling and CVEN3303 Steel Structures.

• ASI eLearning course voucher to the value of $500.

The BOSSI Medal (E0953U)
For the best performance in the final year of the Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems.

• Gold Medal

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil with Architecture Discipline Prize (E2K67U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses, including an Honours Thesis in Civil Engineering with Architecture.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Construction Management Discipline Prize (E2K590)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses, including an Honours thesis in Construction Management.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Discipline Prize (E2K55U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses, including an Honours Thesis in Environmental Engineering.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical Discipline Prize (E2K59U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Geotechnical Engineering.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice Prize (E2K52U)
For the best performance in Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Structures Discipline Prize (E2K58U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Structural Engineering.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Surveying Discipline Prize (E2K79I)
For the best performance in Surveying discipline courses.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Transport Discipline Prize (E2K57U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Transport Engineering.

• $1000

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Water Discipline Prize (E2K56U)
For the best performance in selected undergraduate courses including an Honours Thesis in Water Engineering.

• $1000

The Crawford Munro Memorial Prize (E2K77E)
For the best performance in CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering.

• $500

The Engineers Australia Civil and Structural Engineering Prize (E2K66U)
For the best performance in Structural Design in the final year of the degree.

• $500

The Full Time Class of 1962 Civil Engineering and Surveying Alumni Prize (S0478E)
For the highest WAM at the end of 3rd Year to a local female in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

• $1000

The Geospatial Council of Australia Prize (E0210U)
For the best performance in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry courses in the Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Spatial Information Systems program.

• Two complementary registrations to the next local Surveying and Spacial Sciences Institute conference.

The Institution of Surveyors New South Wales Prize (E0216U)
For the best performance by a graduating student in the Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Spatial Information Systems program.

• $1000

The Jacob N Frenkel Prize (E2K62U)
For the best achievement in Civil Engineering for a first year student.

• $1200

The Maurice Maughan Prize (E2K80E)
For the best student with the best total marks in GMAT2500 Surveying Computations A and GMAT2550 Surveying Computations B.

• $1000

The RS Mather Memorial Prize (E0219U)
For outstanding performance in Geodesy courses in the Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Spatial Information Systems program.

• $500

The Weld Australia Prize (E0182U)
For the best performance of an undergraduate in CVEN3303 Steel Structures

• 12 month membership and a set of technical notes from WTIA worth approx. $950

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The School of Computer Science & Engineering offer more than 100 prizes.

PRIZES A-B

 

The Amadeus COMP6991 Prize (S0950A)
For the best performance in COMP6991 Solving Modern Programming Problems with Rust or equivalent courses.

• $500

The Anita Borg Prize (E2K50U)
For contribution to the promotion or enhancement of the benefits of computing to society, including encouraging or facilitating the participation of women in computing and meritorious academic performance.

• $2000

The Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize (CS532E)
For the best performance in COMP4128 Programming Challenges.

• $1000

The Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize, 2nd Place (CS764E)
For the second best performance in COMP4128 Programming Challenges.

• $750

The Autumn Compass COMP4128 Prize, 3rd Place (CS937E)
For the third best performance in COMP4128 Programming Challenges.

• $500

The Ben Rudzyn Memorial Prize (S0810E)
For outstanding achievement of a final year student in the School of Computer Science and Engineering.

• $1000

 

 

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PRIZES C-E

 

The Citadel Securities Year 1 Computer Science Excellence Prize (CS954E)
For the best performance in year 1 courses for the Computer Science bachelor program.

• $2000

The Citadel Securities Year 2 Computer Science Excellence Prize (CS682E)
For the best performance in year 2 core courses for the Computer Science bachelor program.

• $2000

Digital Asset Capital Management Prize in Prize Cryptocurrency and Distributed Ledger Technology (CS202E)
For the best performance in COMP6451 or COMP6452

• $2000

Most Outstanding CSE Thesis (CS203E)
For the most outstanding thesis in a CSE Program

• $2000

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PRIZES G-J

The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize, 1st Place (S1478E)
For the best performance in COMP3121/3821 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.

• $1000

The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize, 2nd Place (S1479E)
For the second best performance in COMP3121/3821 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.

• $750

The IMC COMP3121/3821 Prize, 3rd Place (S1480E)
For the third best performance in COMP3121/3821 Algorithms and Programming Techniques.

• $500

The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 1st Place (S1481E)
For the best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.

• $1000

The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 2nd Place (S1482E)
For the second best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.

• $750

The Jane Street COMP3141 Prize, 3rd Place (S1483E)
For the third best performance in COMP3141 Software Design and Implementation.

• $500

The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 1st Place (S1489E)
For the best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.

• $1000

The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 2nd Place (S1490E)
For the second best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.

• $750

The Jane Street COMP3161 Prize, 3rd Place (S1491E)
For the third best performance in COMP3161 Concepts of Programming Languages.

• $500

The Jump Trading Prize, 1st Place (E2607E)
For the best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283  Operating Systems.

• $1000

The Jump Trading Prize, 2nd Place (E2608E)
For the second best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Operating Systems.

• $500

The Jump Trading Prize, 3rd Place (E2608E)
For the third best performance in COMP3231/9201/3891/9283 Operating Systems.

• $500

The Jump Trading COMP3222 Digital Circuits and Systems Prize (S0270E)
For the best performance in COMP3222 Digital Circuit and Systems.

• $1000

The Jump Trading Hero of Operating Systems Prize (S0852E)
For the best performance, with High Distinction grades, in COMP3231/3891/9201/9283 and in COMP9242 and in COMP9243 (if offered) and in COMP4953/4963/9596/9945 with an operating systems topic..

• $500

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PRIZES M-M

 

The Macquarie SENG2021 Group Prize (E0491U)
For the best performance by a group in SENG2021 Software Engineering Workshop 2B.

• $2000

The Metamako/Arista Performance Prize for Year 4 (S0307U)- not available in 2024
For the best performance in Computer Science and Engineering in Year 4.

• $1000

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PRIZES N-P

The Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize (S0486E)
For the best PhD Research Paper.

• $2000

The Optiver COMP3411/COMP9814 Prize (CS392E)
For the best performance in COMP3411/COMP9814 Artificial Intelligence/Extended Artificial Intelligence.

• $800

The Optiver COMP3411/COMP9814 Prize (CS165E)
For the second best performance in COMP3411/COMP9814 Artificial Intelligence/Extended Artificial Intelligence.

• $700

The Optiver COMP3411/COMP9814 Prize (CS942E)
For the third best performance in COMP3411/COMP9814 Artificial Intelligence/Extended Artificial Intelligence.

• $500

The Optiver COMP6771 Prize (S0806A)
For the best performance in COMP6771 Advanced C++ Programming.

• $500

The Optiver SENG3011 Group Prize (S0807A)
For the best presentation by a group in SENG3011 Software Engineering Workshop 3.

• $2000

The Palantir Technologies COMP9315 Prize (S1255E)- not available in 2024
For the best performance in COMP9315 Database Systems Implementation.

• $1300

 

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PRIZES Q-W

 

The ROKT COMP2041 Prize (S1350E)
For the best performance in COMP2041 Software Construction.

• $1000

The Wargaming Sydney COMP3421 Prize (S0260E)
For the best performance in COMP3421 Computer Graphics.

• $500

The Wargaming Sydney COMP6741 Prize (S0259E)
For the best performance in COMP6741 Parameterized and Exact Computation.

• $500

 

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The Michael Hintze Memorial Prize in Power Engineering (E0887E)
For the best performance in final year undergraduate Thesis in Energy Systems - Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering)

• $500

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The Best Undergraduate Final Year Thesis Prize (S0468I)
For the best performance in MMAN4020 Thesis B

• $1100 (shared)

The C Madhusudana Prize (E2K05U)
For the best academic performance of a 1st year student in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

• $500

The Douglas Archer Prize in Aerospace Engineering (E2K50A)
For the best student graduating with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering.

• $1500

The John Harrison Prize (E0492U)
For the best performance in MMAN2300 Engineering Mechanics 2.

• $500

The Professor Eddie Leonardi Prize (E2K54A)
For the best performance in all undergraduate courses undertaken in years one and two in the Bachelor of Engineering program of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

• $600

The R E Jeffries Memorial Prize (E0462U)
For the best overall performance in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

• $500

The Australian Acoustical Society NSW Division Prize (EM241E)
For the best overall performance of an undergraduate student in MECH9325 Fundamentals of Acoustics and Noise.

• $500

The RAA Bryant Prize (E0463U)
For the best student graduating with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.

• $1500

The RS Components Prize for Engineering Excellence (E0464U)
For the best performance in the final year of the Mechatronic Engineering program.

• Instruments worth $500

The Schaeffler Australia Best Group Mechanical Design 1 Course (E342E)
For the best performing group in MECH3110 Mechanical Design 1 Course.

• $2000

The Warwick Slade Royal Aeronautical Society Prize (E0470U)
For the top team performance in AERO4110 Aerospace Design Project by students in the Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering program.

• A 1-year Graduate membership of the Society and a medal to the top student from the team

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The Behre Dolbear Prize (E2K51E)
For the best Honours Thesis related to Mining Engineering.

• $1000

The Behre Dolbear Prize for Best Overall Proficiency (or Performance) in Year 3 (E2K50E)
For overall proficiency in Year 3.

• $1000

The Bruce Hebblewhite Prize in Mining Engineering (E2K54I)
For the best overall performance in Year 4 of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.

• $1000

The Charles Warman Prize (E2K49E)
For the best performance in MINE2820 Minerals Processing.

• $1000

The David Phillips Prize (E2K56I)
For the best overall performance in Year 3 Resource Estimation and Mine Planning.

• $1000

The Drilling Engineering Award (E2K44U)
For the best performance in PTRL3015 Well Drilling Equipment and Operations.

• $500

The Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Prize (E2K45A)
For the best performance in PTRL4012 Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery.

• $500

The Jim Galvin Prize (E2K55I)
For the best performance in Year 4 Mine Geotechnical Engineering.

• $1000

The Joan Bath Prize for Women in Mining Engineering (E2K57I)
For the best academic performance by a female in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.

• $1000

The Mitsubishi Prize (E2K47U)
For the best performance in MINE3910 Socio-Environmental Aspects of Mining,

• $1000

The Natural Gas Engineering Prize  (E0329U)
For the best performance in PTRL4020 Natural Gas Engineering.

• $500

The New South Wales Minerals Council Prize for Best Overall Performance (or Proficiency) Year 2 (E2K52I)
For the best overall performance in Year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.

• $1000

The New South Wales Minerals Council Prize for Best Performance in Mine Design Course (E2K53I)
For the best overall performance in Year 4 Mine Design and Feasibility Project.

• $1000

The Outstanding Year 1 Student Prize (E2K46E)
For outstanding performance in Year 1 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.

• $500

The Outstanding Year 2 Student Prize (E2K47E)
For outstanding performance in Year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.

• $500

The Outstanding Year 3 Student Prize (E0324U)
For outstanding performance in Year 3 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.

• $500

The Outstanding Year 4 Student Prize (E1K50E)
For outstanding performance in Year 4 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering program.

• $500

The Petroleum Economics Prize  (E0325U)
For the best performance in PTRL3025 Petroleum Economics.

• $500

The Reservoir Engineering Prize  (E0326U)
For the best cumulative performance in PTRL2019 Reservoir Engineering A and PTRL3001 Reservoir Engineering B.

• $500

The Roxborough Prize (E2K48U)
For the best performance in Year 1 in Mining Engineering.

• $500 and a bronze medal

The Stan Sawyer Memorial Prize (E0466U)
For the best performance in an Honours thesis on a topic relating to coal mining in the Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering program.

• $750

The Thesis Project Prize (E1K57E)
For the best Honours Thesis related to Petroleum Engineering.

• $500

 

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The Applied Photovoltaics Prize (E0195U)
For the best performance in SOLA2540 Applied Photovoltaics in the Bachelor of Engineering prgram.

• $500

The BT Imaging Photovoltaic Thesis Prize (S0402E)
For the best performance in Photovoltaics Materials and Devices.

• $500

The Grid Connected Photovoltaic Systems Prize (S0402E)
For the best performance in SOLA5056 Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.

• $500

The Photovoltaic 2nd Year Project Prize (E0399A)
For the best performance in DESN2000 Engineering Design and Professional Practice SPREE Group

• $2,000

The Photovoltaic Thesis Prize (E0196U)
For the best performance in an undergraduate thesis in the area of Photovoltaics in the Bachelor of Engineering program.

• $500

The Solar Juice Renewable Energy Thesis Prize (S0401E)
For the best performance in Renewable Energy Thesis.

• $500

The Steve Robinson Memorial Prize (E2K46C)
For the best performance in SOLA3507 Solar Cells in the Master of Engineering Science or Doctor of Philosophy program.

• $500

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