element14 announces winners of the $30,000 USD LiveEDGE Engineering Student Scholarships

element14 announces winners of the $30,000 USD LiveEDGE Engineering Student Scholarships

London, October 1, 2009 – element14, a new online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers, announces twelve Live EDGE Electronic Design for the Global Environment scholarships winners. Each winner will receive equal portions of the $30,000 USD prize money to further their education in electrical and electronics engineering.

The winners of the Live EDGE Scholarship, subject to verification of their student status, are as follows:

Americas:

Jeffery Ranew – Guyton, Georgia

Meng AI – Los Angeles, California

Rudi Skaf – Lansdale, Philadelphia

Shaun Lee – Vancouver, British Colombia

Europe:

Andrew Nelless – Woking, UK

Armin Axel Brugger – Purkersdorf, Austria Hector Castaneda – London, UK, Uthishtan Ranjan – Loughton, UK

Asia Pacific:

Aashiv Vij – Amritsar, India

Abde Ali Kagalwalla – Bhopa, India

Tian Li – Beijing, China

Yin Quan Teo – Singapore

The prize money has been evenly distributed between Asia, Europe and the Americas, allotting $2,500 for each student. The funds to support this scholarship were made possible from the Live EDGE challenge in keeping with Premier Farnell’s commitment to making a difference to the future of electronic design engineering and encouraging students to study electronic engineering with a view of benefiting the world in which we live. The winning scholarship entries are posted on element14 within the Live EDGE Group at:

http://www.element-14.com/community/community/liveedge.

“The Live EDGE challenge provided a great opportunity for electronic design engineers to bring their environmentally friendly designs to the market and we are pleased to congratulate each of the student scholarship winners,” said Harriet Green, CEO of Premier Farnell. “We are proud to encourage the further education of students who are also eager to positively impact the world. Through element14 and our recent acquisition of CadSoft we have again heightened our ability to support students and electronic design engineers alike with the latest products, technology, services and support that they need to excel in their field.”

About element14

element14 is a new, innovative information portal and eCommunity specifically built for electronic design engineers. It provides product data, design tools and technology information, whilst incorporating web 2.0 functionality to facilitate communication, interaction, collaboration and information sharing between colleagues around the world. Users can consult experts, discover trends, post blogs, articles and comments in this world-wide forum.

element14 is another innovative offering from Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), FTSE 250, a leader in multi-channel distribution and specialty services for electronic design engineers throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It has a stocked range of 450,000+ products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,500 top manufacturers. The company has group sales of £804.4m and over 4,100 employees globally.

For more information about element14 visit: www.element-14.com.