Ben Rowlands, a first year Electrical Engineering student at Imperial College has won the coveted IEE Short Papers competition. The annual event was held last night as part of the London Younger Members' (LYM) Network Night.

Mr Rowlands presented a paper on the Juxta, This is a radio transmission system that enables rescue services to easily find victims in mountainous areas. He developed the device at school, in Snowdonia for his A Level Technology project. Mr Rowlands was presented with a cheque for £150. James Watson, LYM Vice-Chair and Elec Eng 3rd year also presented a paper, on circuit breakers. He secured a runners' up place, winning £75.

The Competition was judged by Malcolm Kennedy (IEE Past-President), Prof. Robert Spence (former Head of Elec Eng at Imperial College) and Amechi Madukwe (LYM's newsletter editor). Mr Kennedy said that the standard of the presentations was very high and that the judges had had great difficulty in selecting the prizewinners. They even had to make an extra runners-up prize, as they could not pick between two candidates!