GCG Geotechnical Engineer Awarded Imperial Postgraduates Prize for Best MSc Dissertation

Congratulations to Serena Che, Geotechnical Engineer at GCG, who has been awarded the Imperial Postgraduate Prize for the best Soil Mechanics MSc dissertation in 2020-2021.

Serena undertook an MSc in Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London, in the 2020-2021 semester and graduated with Distinction. However, due to COVID-19 Serena deferred her graduation ceremony to yesterday (3 May 2023).

The Postgraduate Awards Day is usually held on the first Wednesday in May of the year following completion of the course, and each year sees the Civil Engineering Department award prizes to mark postgraduate students’ achievements. These awards are highly competitive and merit-based.

The ACES Prize was presented to Serena by Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial.