The postgraduate prize categories are:
| Award | Details | Current holder | |
| Unwin Postgraduate Prize in Mechanical Engineering | Awarded to one PhD student and one MSc student at the end of their studies | One of the four academic founders of the City & Guilds College in 1884, Professor Unwin was Head of Engineering for over twenty years. He pioneered research in hydraulics and material testing, and the teaching of engineering for industrial application. |
Kasper Hansen, Heli Liu |
| Margaret Fishenden Centenary Memorial Prize | Awarded for the best PhD thesis over the previous five year period | Dr Fishenden was an industrial researcher in the Department during the 1930s and 1940s; co-author of seminal texbooks The Calculation of Heat Transmission (1936) and An Introduction to Heat Transfer (1950). | Wei Wang |
| Katopodis Prize | Awarded for the best PhD thesis within the Thermofluids division | Spyridon ("Spyros") Katopodis was an industrial case student in the Thermofluids division, studying transient emissions from diesel engines. He died in 2009. | Harry Mitchell |
| Dr Ashraf Ben El-Shanawany Memorial Prize | Awarded for outstanding achievement by a PhD or EngD student to include research, public outreach, innovation and entrepreneurial achievement | Dr El Shanawany was an Engineering Doctorate student in the Nuclear group, who died in 2017, shortly after finishing his thesis entitled Uncertainty Quantification in Probabilistic Safety Analysis. |
Nick Kalogeropoulos, Saiful Bahri Mohd Yasin |