For the third year in a row, the PhD Council of the Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE) faculty organised a day to celebrate the work of PhD students: the 3mE PhD Day.
During this day, PhD students of various departments presented their research in a one minute pitch and competed for the best poster award.
Hildo Bijl, MSc., president of the PhD Council, explained that the goal of this day is to bring PhD students within the faculty together for social reasons as well as for opportunities for collaboration.
Even though subjects are distinct, they all have their own interesting aspects. During the flash presentations, the PhD students had exactly one minute to present these aspects to the others and to convince them that their work is worth a talk. Despite the very strict one-minute schedule kept by the PhD council president, the atmosphere was relaxed. Afterwards, the students gave a more elaborate explanation about their work during a poster presentation in the 3mE hallway.
Meanwhile, the jury, consisting of a design team and a content team, was judging the posters. One of the jury members explained: “We consider three aspects, the first being if the poster is appealing. Furthermore, we check if the content of the poster is understandable for lay people. And lastly, we look if enough information is given: the project goal, achievements so far and how these achievements were reached. Although there were differences of opinion within the jury, we eventually achieved consensus on the winning poster.” And that poster was made by Eleonoor Verlinden MSc. of the Precision and Microsystems Engineering department. With her poster ‘Dispensing femtoliter volumes with an AFM-femtopipette into a model cell’, she won an award of 250 euros.
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