ICE QUEST Undergraduate Scholarship
Guidance on completing the Final Annual Report
Introduction
QUEST Scholar graduates must complete and submit a Final Annual Report form to
ICE by the deadline specified. Unlike previous years the report doesn’t need to be signed
by your personal tutor but you should send a copy of your final degree certificate and/or
results transcript along with the report.
Guidance for Section A
2. Contact details
It is important that we hold up-to-date contact details for you so that all future correspondence reaches you. We recommend checking and, if necessary, updating your contact details via MyICE; your email address may need updating if, for example, it is a university email that is no longer active. If you have not previously registered to use MyICE, visit www.ice.org.uk/myice and follow the guidelines for registering. You will need your ICE membership number to hand.
3. Post-graduation employment details
If you have been successful in securing a graduate job, please give details of your new role so that we can keep a record of the destinations of QUEST Scholars. If, as part of your scholarship, you were sponsored by a company but did not join them on graduation, please make sure you give a full explanation why this was the case, as it is an expectation of the scholarship scheme that QUEST Scholars will join their sponsor company upon graduation. If you are currently job hunting or have alternative plans such as continuing your studies as a post graduate or taking a year out, please explain what your plans are and give details of your course if continuing in education.
Guidance for Section B
4. Academic results
You must report your results for your final year and give your final degree classification so that your academic performance can be recorded. Below is example of how you should record your results.
Module title / Percentage or grade / Pass or failGeotechnics / 70 / Pass
Hydraulics / 80 / Pass
Overall final year result / 75%
Final degree classification (e.g. 1st, 2:1, 2:2) / 1st
Guidance for Section C
5. Main report
You are asked to reflect on what you have learnt and achieved during your time as a QUEST Scholar. Please consult the guidance below and make sure that your answers keep within the allocated space on the form.
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1. Your experience as a QUEST Scholar
When completing this section you should consider the points below. You are not expected to address all of these points, but should cover some of them and aim to write at least 300 words.
§ The most important experiences of your time at university and during summer work placements
§ What went particularly well or badly
§ How you have been challenged
§ What skills you have gained
§ What your biggest achievements have been
§ Your academic performance
§ What important lessons you have learnt (remember that many lessons are learnt from making mistakes and it is important to include these experiences)
§ Reflections on what you might have done differently
§ How your experiences may affect you in the future
§ How recent experiences have impacted on your awareness of and involvement with civil engineering
§ How the scholarship has helped you
2. Goals for the future
Taking into consideration the points below, describe what your goals are for the future now you have graduated. You should aim to write at least 150 words.
§ What your aims, objectives and plans are in the short, medium and long term
§ Why these objectives are important to you
§ How your experience has affected these objectives
§ Whether you are planning on becoming a professionally qualified Civil Engineer
§ If you have secured a graduate role, what you hope to achieve through this
3. Scholarship feedback
If you have any feedback on how we can improve and develop the scholarship we would welcome this. This could be on any aspect of the scholarship or your experience.
Guidance for Section D
6. Activities promoting civil engineering and the scholarship
QUEST Scholars are required to participate in a minimum of three activities that promote civil engineering and the scholarship over the course of their degree. Please list the three activities you have participated in, describing the nature of the activity, your personal involvement and how the activity achieved the goal of promoting civil engineering and the scholarship. If you have participated in more than three activities, please list the three most recent activities only.
Submitting your report
All reports should be emailed as an attachment form in pdf format and named as your ‘Surname_Initial’ (e.g. Smith_J) to . Attachments should not exceed 10MB in file size.
Alternatively, reports can be posted to the following address: QUEST Coordinator, Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA. Please make sure reports are posted with the correct postage to ensure safe arrival; we would recommend that reports are sent via recorded or special delivery.
If, as part of your scholarship, you were sponsored by a company please forward a copy of your report to your mentor/manager at your sponsor company.
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