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News Release
19 October 2001
Young civil engineer wins £7000 bursary for study
Civil engineer Jonathan Hackwell has won
this year’s prestigious £7000 Sir Angus
Paton Bursary from The Royal Academy of
Engineering. The award enables him to study
for a Masters degree in Water Pollution
Control Technology at Cranfield University,
where he has just started his course.
Jonathan has ten years’ experience in the
water industry with South West Water,
progressing to water treatment works manager
for the last three years. “I’ve gained
valuable process and management experience
during this period, which has seen a
predominantly civil engineering industry
transform into a process industry, in order
to meet today’s stringent environmental
standards,” he says. He now wants to advance
his knowledge in pollution control and
extend his experience into manufacturing
industries, especially the treatment and
re-use of waste water. “Cranfield’s MSc is
unique in focusing on the advancement of
science for the protection of the water
environment.”
Having contributed to water quality,
Jonathan is equally keen to use it, as a
keen sailor, windsurfer, canoeist and
snowboarder.
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Notes for editors
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The Royal Academy of Engineering aims to
pursue, encourage and maintain excellence
across the whole field of engineering in
order to promote the advancement of the
science, art and practice of engineering for
the benefit of the public. The Academy
comprises the UK's most eminent engineers
and is able to use their combined wealth of
knowledge and experience to meet its
objectives.
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The Sir Angus Paton Bursary is a scholarship
awarded annually to an engineer enrolled on
a full-time approved Masters degree course
related to the environment.
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The late Sir Angus Paton CMG made this
scholarship possible through an endowment to
the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1986. He
was a Fellow of both the Academy and the
Royal Society. As one of the UK’s most
distinguished civil engineers, he was in
charge of many overseas engineering
projects, including the giant Kariba Dam on
the Zambezi River and the Indus Basin
project in Pakistan.
For more information please contact:
Jane Sutton at the Royal Academy of
Engineering
Tel: 020 7227 0536 (direct) / 07989 513045
(mobile)
[E-mail Jane]
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