This award recognises the best postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) who have graduated at SU in the year preceding the award year (for the 2026 award year, the December 2025/March 2026 graduations will count). PhD student nominees must have presented at a research conference and published at least two research publications and/or creative outputs based on their PhD.

 Influence of Stress Relief Annealing on the Hardness and Sliding Wear of Invar and Invar-10wt%TiC Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Numerical Methods in Predicting Residual Stresses in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Developed Parts - a Review

This is an Award of Excellence presented by the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Chapter) to the best student in a graduating set at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.