Thesis Competition

The winners of this year’s EPMA Powder Metallurgy Thesis Competition were honoured at the plenary session of the PM2010 World Congress in Florence with nearly 1000 people in attendance.

This biennial competition has, over many years, helped raise awareness of PM and stimulated research amongst young designers and engineers throughout Europe. The prizes were kindly sponsored by Höganäs AB of Sweden.

The winner in the Doctorate category was Dr Claas Bierwisch from the Fraunhofer Institut - IWM in Freiburg, Germany, for his thesis on “Numerical Simulations of Granular Flow and Filling”. He received a cheque for €1,000 from EPMA President, Mr Ingo Cremer.

A cheque for €750 was awarded to Miss Ilaria Forno, of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, winner in the Masters’ category, for her dissertation on “Influence on atmosphere and cooling rate on properties of sinter-hardened steels”. Besides free registration to the World PM2010 Congress, both winners made short presentations on their
theses during the Plenary and were also given the opportunity to submit an article to the official EPMA journal, “Powder Metallurgy”.

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