Students from Europe, North America and Asia/Pacific are celebrating as the winners of Premier Farnell's Live EDGE Electronic Design for the Global Environment scholarships.
Each student will receive $2,500. The winning students in Europe feature three from the UK and one from Austria. They are Andrew Nelless from Woking in Surrey, Hector Castenada from London and Uthistan Ranjan from Loughton in Essex, and Armin Axel Brugger from Purkersdorf in Austria.
Each student had to submit an essay on electronic design in the future, how it will shape our lives and its impact on the environment. Hector Castenada's engineering qualifications will be turned to developing new ways of producing and finding renewable sources and more affordable energy. Andrew Nelless homed in on the design of electronic products concluding size and power will not be such a crucial indication of progress and he wrote on the process of electronic design envisaging some startling changes in how we structure the electronic devices to make our lives easier, while Uthistan Ranjan emphasised the importance of today's engineers designing for tomorrow's society with an emphasis on sustainability and clean energy.
Armin Axel Burger took a similar line. He will use his degree in electronic engineering to help develop new technologies that will make our environment a better, safer and greener place.
The winners were announced, appropriately on element 14, Premier Farnell's community website for electronic design engineers.
To read all the winning entries go to http://www.element-14.com/community/community/liveedge/scholarships
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