The Robin Memorial Prize

In 1953, a committee of former students, friends and colleagues of the late Professor Rowland Cuthbert Robin, M.E., who served at the University from 1930 until his death in 1951, donated a sum of money to the University for the purpose of establishing a memorial lecture to be given on the general theme of "Engineering and the Community". In 1997, with the consent of the family of the late Professor Robin, the sum of $6,787 was transferred to establish an annual prize for the best Level IV Research Project, in lieu of the Lecture. The following rules for the prize are hereby made:

1. The prize shall be known as "The Robin Memorial Prize".
2. So long as the fund and the income thereof suffice for the purpose, the annual value of the prize shall be $400, or such other amount as shall from time to time be determined.
3. The prize shall be awarded on the recommendation of the Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering to the student who obtains the best overall result in one of the Level IV courses C&ENVENG 4003A/B Civil Engineering Research Project N or C&ENVENG 4005A/B Environmental Engineering Research Project N.
4. If in any year two or more Level IV students obtain equal top marks for the courses C&ENVENG 4003A/B Civil Engineering Research Project N or C&ENVENG 4005A/B Environmental Engineering Research Project N, the prize shall be awarded to the student who obtains the highest overall mark for the oral presentations in these courses.
5. If, in any year, two or more students are equal according to Clauses 3 and 4, the prize shall be shared equally.
6. These rules may be varied from time to time, but the title and general purpose of the prize shall not be changed.