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Help Youngsters to Get Inspired

CIBSE is offering built environment professionals the opportunity to help entice youngsters into the building services industry. As reported in March, CIBSE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sector Skills Council, SummitSkills.  The agreement commits the institutions to working together to promote and develop the Building Services Engineering (BSE) Ambassadors scheme - part of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Ambassadors programme, which has more than 20,000 volunteers across the UK. STEM Ambassadors are all volunteers who act as inspiring role models to young people. Click here to read the full article in this month's CIBSE Journal.

YEN Champions

The shortlist for this year's YEN Champions Awards 2010 - recognising innovation in developing engineers of the future - has now been announced.  The awards, sponsored by Baxi Commercial Division, seek to reward those organisations which proactively champion young people in the industry.

Click here to see the shortlist.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 8 July, with each receiving a trophy and £1,000 of CIBSE training vouchers.  An additional trophy for the overall winner will also be presented.

Undergraduate Award 2010

This is your last chance to enter the CIBSE Undergraduate Award 2010. Sponsored by Hays Building Services, the award offers newly graduated students from BSc, BEng, MEng or MSc programmes industry recognition, as well as encouraging academic excellence. The first prize is £500, with a runner-up prize of £100.  To enter, simply send a 2,000 word synopsis of your final year project, together with the completed application form, by 31 July 2010. Click here for more information.

Graduate Entries Sought

The closing date for this year's CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year award, sponsored by BAXI Commercial Division, is fast approaching. Entries need to be received by 30 July. Judging will take place on 7 October.  The award, which recognises the achievements and potential  of young engineers who have graduated in the last two years, offers the winner a trip to the ASHRAE winter conference in Las Vegas. Click here and scroll to page 16 for more information.

Annual General Meeting

CIBSE has held its annual general meeting (AGM).  An offical record of the meeting can be found in the July issue of CIBSE Journal.  Click here to see this.

CIBSE News from June

Low Carbon Heroes and the BBC's 'Big Bang'

CIBSE, together with SummitSkills, the building services Sector Skills Council, attended the Big Bang: UK Young Scientist and Engineers Fair, in March. 

The CIBSE-SummitSkills stand was themed around Low Carbon Heroes, with visitors being able to play the online Summit Holiday Village game, meet and talk to practising CIBSE members, and pick up the coveted 'I'm a Low Carbon Hero' stickers.  

The three-day educational fair, organised by Engineering UK, was aimed at nine-to-19-year olds and had more than 22,500 visitors. The event also hosted the National Science and Engineering Competition, as well as including shows from Sky television's Brainiac, BBC's Bang Goes the Theory and the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

CIBSE YEN (Young Engineers Network) member Louis Fifeild, a student at Loughborough University who helped on the stand, said she enjoyed the experience: 'it was fun talking to the younger kids and interesting to talk to the older ones about building services. I found that a lof of the older students were not aware of the opportunities they have open to them in building services. It was great to be able to share with them some ideas of what they could do with their future career.

First Person Joins New Energy Management Register

Christopher Evans has become the first person to join the CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant Energy Management register after passing the exam a the end of the new BSEN 16001 training course. The register is for those professionals who wish to demonstrate their competency in implementing a fully compliant and certifiable energy management system, meeting the requirements of EN 16001, in either their own workplace or for others.

BSEN 16001 provides a framework for an organisation to improve its energy efficiency and ultimateley reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. To find out more visit CIBSE Energy Centre here.

Bursary Winner Announced

Rebecca Warren from SKM, Manchester, has been announced as the winner for CIBSE's 2010 Ken Dale Travel Bursary. Warren plans to use the bursary to research 'Energy Solutions in Low Carbon Communities' in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, and will report her findings to the CIBSE Council in October 2010. The bursary enables CIBSE members to travel and research areas of particular interest and application to the challenges facing the institution.

Lighting Awards Open

Entries are now open for the Irish Lighter and Irish Young Lighter awards, sponsored by Enlighten. The awards are open to all building services professionals, with Society of Light and Lighting and the Institution of Lighting Engineers' members particularly encouraged to participate. Projects must be located in Ireland, while submissions based on lighting research will also be accepted.  Winners will be announced in September and will receive 1000 Euros. Each runner up will be presented with 500 Euros.  For details on how to enter click here.

Undergraduate Award 2010

Entries are still being accepted for this year's CIBSE Undergraduate Award 2010, sponsored by Hays Building Services. The award, with a first prize of £500 and a runner up prize of £100, is open to all in their final year of BSc, BEng, MEng or MSc training and provides a great opportunity to get recognised at a national level. Click here for more information. Closing date is 31 July 2010.