Steve Talbot's academic achievements
Steve's exceptional academic results have been rewarded by a number of prizes.
Postgraduate certificates in leadership and management
Steve Talbot (right) receives his CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Leadership and Management from Professor Anthony Chapman, Vice Chancellor of Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Steve holds postgraduate certificates in management (from the University of Lancaster) and leadership (from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) and a Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute.
Steve's Lancaster learning set was awarded a prize for delivering an outstanding business project on team effectiveness.
BA(Hons) MEng Engineering, University of Cambridge
Steve achieved a first class result in all four years of his undergraduate Engineering degree, receiving a scholarship of Christ's College each year and nine prizes as follows:
- Wyatt Prize for Engineering, 2001 and 2002
- Institution of Civil Engineers Baker Prize, 2003
- Lynch Prize for Engineering Part II, 2003
- Agilent Technologies Ltd Prize for best performance in Electrical Systems Engineering, 2003
- i2 Ltd Prize for work on a team-based software engineering project, 2003
- Charles Lamb Prize for the candidate showing greatest proficiency in Electrical and Information Engineering, 2004
- Lynch Prize for Engineering Part II, 2004
- Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers' undergraduate prize for the top student on a course with a significant element of instrumentation and control, 2004/05
Steve's MEng project reached the national final of the Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards 2004. These awards are advertised as Britain's most important for science and engineering undergraduates and their judging criteria include technical depth, level of achievement and creativity.
School prizes
Steve won at least one prize each year throughout his entire school career between 1986 and 1999.
He also won the Tyneside Training and Enterprise Council "Young Engineer of the Future 1998" award for an essay about the skills required to become a successful engineer.