NCE Graduate Awards 2007 - Enter Now!

Pay Attention all 2006 civil engineering graduates – This is YOUR chance to share in a £2700 prize fund and get really noticed by major company bosses.

Download an entry form here

• Did YOU graduate with a civil engineering - or related - degree any time in 2006?

• Are YOU proud of your all round achievements at uni and at work?

• Would YOU like to seriously boost your C.V.?

If the answer is YES we want to hear from you NOW. A little effort today filling in a simple entry form could generate a shed load of benefits before the end of this year.

Prime aim of our Graduate Awards, now in their eleventh year, is to seek out and reward the best all round civil engineers who graduated in 2006. Currently enjoying their first post graduate jobs, these young engineers should be full of enthusiasm, ideas and motivation. It is these skills, as much as academic success at uni, that we want to hear about and praise.

Over a dozen of our industry's top companies, including the Institution of Civil Engineers, have again teamed up with NCE this year to sponsor the awards. And they are so keen to be actively involved in encouraging our profession's future that each sponsor will put forward a senior manager to help judge the entrants.

We will ask you what you have achieved both at uni and work and invite you to debate briefly a topical essay question. This year's essay topic asks you to suggest ways your own company can reduce it 'carbon footprint' both in the office, through design and during construction. So it offers lots of scope for individual and thought provoking debate.

The top half dozen entrants will be invited to meet our judges at the ICE in early November. At this stage you are already a winner; as all six shortlisted candidates then attend the Awards presentation lunch – with their employer if they wish – held on Thursday 22 November 2007 at NCE's major exhibition Civils 2007 in London's Earls Court. We will pay the finalists' expenses both to the shortlist meeting and the Awards presentation.

Here you could win the top £1000 prize, one of two £500 runners' up cheques or receive £250 for being one of several highly commended finalists. Last year's top three winners soon found themselves meeting up with the Construction Minister and all will receive wide industry praise.

And the employers of all our winners receive considerable publicity, as they can also feel justly proud of the young engineers they chose to recruit.

So take note, recruitment and training officers - if there are any 2006 graduates in your company, encourage them to enter now.

Our greatest challenge is not choosing the winners, but getting candidates to enter in the first place. Modesty is not a virtue in this awards scheme.

So if you were part of the class of 2006; are passionate about civil engineering; proud of your career so far and fancy a grand; direct just a wee bit of that enthusiasm into filling in that entry form NOW.

Note the closing date is FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2007!

You have nothing to lose and just possibly a lot to gain. form or contact:

Hollie Mitchell,
Editorial Department,
New Civil Engineer,
Emap Construct,
151 Rosebery Avenue,
London EC1R 4GB

Tel: 020 7505 6666
Fax: 020 7505 6667
Email: hollie.mitchell@emap.com