What is the Extra-Curricular award about? 

• In addition to engineering academic course work, enhancing your experience of engineering and industrial knowledge is vital to inform your career choices and demonstrate extra dimensions to your CV when applying for jobs and internships.

• The CUEA extra-curricular awards were established to recognise the value of extracurricular activities to students' personal, professional, and academic development.

• Valuable extra-curricular options available to you include work experience/internships, SPIP engineering project teamwork, Dyson Center small projects, attending industry talks and career panels, participating in mentoring schemes and individual interests such as racing, coding or design and building models.

Every entry will receive:

• Personal feedback and the opportunity to engage with a CUEA alumni mentor and a practice job interview where you can use your submission as part of your CV to gain valuable experience ahead of real job applications

• A certificate of achievement that will recognise that you have gone above and beyond just the academic requirements of your degree; this will be helpful in future job interviews - prompting discussions to demonstrate your passion for engineering and make you stand out from the rest! 

• The minimum requirement to receive an certificate is to have demonstrably dedicated at least, on average, 20 hours per completed academic year to extracurricular activities (for example, if you are now on your third year, you are expected to have dedicated at a minimum 40 hours to extracurricular activities)

Application Review process:

A team of Alumni from CUEA will review applications and conduct an assessment process to choose the most impressive few for an Award.

The following timeline will be followed:

• December 13th 2024: Deadline for applications

• December 20th 2024: Certificate of achievement mailed to eligible applicants and further instructions to engage with their CUEA alumni mentor

• December 13th 2024-January 10th 2025: Review and consideration for awards

• January 10th 2025: Award recipients notified

Recipients of the Award will receive:

• Invitation to a lunch event with the CUEA committee 

• Opportunity of an expenses paid work experience in a leading and exciting engineering company associated with a CU alumni.

Eligibility

Any student who has already completed their first year of study is eligible to apply, Undergraduates, Masters', and PhD students are all welcome to apply!