Following the success of the 2014 SENG RPg Communication Competition, the Center for Engineering Education Innovation of the School of Engineering (SENG) held the 2015 SENG Three Minute Thesis (3MT^®) Competition on April 15, 2015. 3MT^® is a research communication competition that aims at challenging research postgraduate students (RPg) to consolidate their ideas and research discoveries so that they can be presented concisely to a non-specialist audience. Till today 130 universities from 19 countries have brought 3MT^® to campus, such as the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.

This year eight students from six departments were shortlisted and presented their research projects to the audience composed of research students and the judging panel including both SENG faculty members and communication professionals. Ping Geng, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD student under the supervision of Prof Guohua Chen, won the championship. The second and the third places went to Miao Yu, a Bioengineering Graduate Program PhD student under the supervision of Prof Shuhuai Yao, and Belsy Yuen, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering PhD student under the supervision of Prof Christopher Chao. Ping Geng also won the People’s Choice award, which was chosen by the student audience.

During the competition, the finalists, the judging panel, and the audience also shared their experience of giving presentations and exchanged ideas about how to improve research presentation skills.