The finalists of both competitions
The future of our sector came together at the annual awards ceremony for the 3rd Ineco Internship and Scholarship Awards Competition and the 5th Engineering Student Internship Awards Competition.
Promoted by Ineco, the Spanish Engineering Institute and the REDFUE (Network of University-Business Foundations), the Distinctions seek to recognise the talent and excellence of students who have stood out for their business practices. The winners receive a cash prize of €4,000 for the winner and €1,000 for each of the two runners-up.
The president of Ineco, Sergio Vázquez Torrón, and the top representatives of the other organising entities, María Cruz Díaz (IIE) and Fernando Martínez (REDFUE), stressed the importance of promoting collaboration between academia and business. "Knowledge is much more valuable if it inspires action and commitment," stressed Sergio Vázquez Torrón.
Álvaro Fernández Heredia, Secretary General for Sustainable Mobility, was in charge of closing this event, which has served to promote the prestige of Spanish engineering and project the talent of future professionals in any discipline of the sector. "Talent must go hand in hand with innovation and technology to continue working on improving mobility and society," he concluded.
Ineco awards prizes for the best internship projects
The 3rd Edition of the Ineco Excellence in Internships and Grants Competition recognises projects that have generated significant improvements in processes, products and technological innovation within the company. The winner of this edition was Fernando Diego de la Fuente, Master's Degree in Air Transport Systems from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, for the development of a web application for the management of operations with unmanned aerial systems.
Alejandro Díez Martín and Pedro Vázquez Alonso won first and second runners-up prizes respectively for their projects on the implementation of nest drones for the maintenance of railway infrastructures and risk analysis in tunnels.
Congratulations to all the finalists: Francisco Javier Lorenzo Alonso, Mariana Verónica Antúnez y González, Daniel Herrera Díaz, Alejandro Sánchez Llorente, Rebeca del Castillo Cordero, Javier Francisco Pérez Gómez, Jaime Blanco Castillo, Esperanza Paino Orellana, Celeste Javiera Sánchez Guillén, Claudia Redondo Feria, Belén Gómez Arredondo, Eneko García Illaramendi and Beatriz Moreno Tomás.
Excellence in Spanish engineering
María Portela Díaz, student of the Qualifying Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University in Madrid, has won the 5th Engineering Student Internship Awards Competition for her innovative project developed for DPX-Differential Power. Her work consisted of the design and implementation of a high-efficiency, USB-EPR-compatible, space- and component-saving AC power adapter for electronic systems.
In addition, two runners-up prizes were awarded to Jorge Vilella Carcasés, for his project for the creation of a digital twin for road safety studies and to Eduardo Bilbao Pavón, for his development of a predictive mobility model based on artificial intelligence.
The finalists were: Ainhoa Franco Santana, María Dolores Boluda Prieto, Marta Celia Pastor Robert, Juan Aranda Meca, Ángela Gutiérrez Morcillo, Beatrice Elsa Bauret Martínez, Ana Cuenca-Romero Molinillo and Guillermo Fernández Rodríguez.
