Two Master students from the Department of Marine Technology won with their teams at the "Your Extreme Awards" by Kongsberg Group on 23 October 2014 at Scandic Lerkendal.

They won out of 83 proposals.

The students were given the topic "extreme weather" which depicted a scenario where Trondheim has suffered from extreme weather in 2050.

Knut Gulsvik with his team "Gislefoss Klimax" won the main award of the "Your Extreme Awards". Teknisk Ukeblad reported (in Norwegian).

Kun Xu and his fellow students were awarded the student choice award. Read their proposal entitled "Nyheim - the offshore floating shelter".

Kun Xu is being supervised by Prof. Torgeir Moan and researchers Zhen Gao and Constantine Michailides, all from the Department of Marine Technology. His pre-project thesis is entitled "Mooring System for Semi-submersible Floating Wind Turbine in Shallow Waters".