A student from University College Cork has been named as the 2008 Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year.

Rory Clune was one of hundreds of students from major universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland who had entered the prestigious SET competition earlier this year which is regarded as the most important competition for science, engineering and technology undergraduates here and across the water.

The Corkman travelled to London at the weekend to attend the prestigious SET awards ceremony at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel to find out if he would be among the 15 students to take home an award at the event. However, when he arrived not only did he learn he was to receive the top award as the best Mechanical Engineering Student of 2008, but, the overall award for the SET Student of the Year. His lecturer, Dr Denis Kelleher, was named Lecturer of the Year.

The prestigious accolade pays tribute to Rory's ambitious undergraduate project on the mechanical design of a coronary stent. The judges described his work as the outcome of a brilliant intellect and a highly developed pragmatic intuition and for this reason decided to award him the top award. The SET Awards are organised by the World Leadership Forum and sponsored by 3M, Airbus, AstraZeneca, AWE, Balfour Beatty, Bentley Motors, Cadbury Schweppes, e2v Technologies, GKN, GlaxoSmithKline, The Institution of Engineering & Technology, Laing O'Rourke, Lloyd's Register Educational Trust, Microsoft Research, Morgan Crucible, The National Physical Laboratory and RPS.

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