IET Achievement Medal

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) awards achievement medals[1] to recognize engineers who have been significant contribution to various fields in engineering[2] Every year, the award committee seeks[3][4][5][6] and evaluates nominations[7] and makes decision on winners.[8] There is no age limit or nationality requirement. It is an international award.

IET Achievement Medals
Awarded forExceptional contribution to the advancement of engineering and technology
Country United Kingdom
Presented byInstitution of Engineering and Technology (formerly IEE). Founded in London, 1871.
First awarded1987
Websitehttp://www.iet.org

Technical Fields

The awards are made to recognize specific fields in engineering:

  1. Information & Telecommunication
  2. Electronics
  3. Control Engineering
  4. Manufacturing
  5. Transport Engineering
  6. Environmental Engineering
  7. Energy

Naming of Awards

The IET Achievement Medals are named after prominent scientists and engineers. They include:

  1. J. J. Thomson - for electronics
  2. John Ambrose Fleming - for communications
  3. R. E. B. Crompton - for energy
  4. Oliver Heaviside - for control
  5. Monty Finniston - for general engineering
  6. Sarah Guppy - for environment
  7. Eric Mensforth - for manufacturing
  • Thomson: Discoverer of Electrons
  • Fleming: Inventor of Vacuum Tubes
  • Crompton: Pioneer of Electric Lighting
  • Heaviside: Heaviside Step Function (Control)

The awards are sponsored by several companies, such as BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, BP, RS, Pace, e-ON, EDF energy networks, GCHQ, Transport for London, etc.[9]

Award Ceremony

Each year, the award is presented in London, UK. [10] The ceremony is attended by the IET President, distinguished guests, winners and their families and industry sponsors of the event. Also at this ceremony, winners of the IET Faraday Medal and recipient of IET Honorary Fellow will also be announced on this occasion.[11] Some photos taken at the award ceremony can be found here.[12]

Winners

An overview of some of the medalists since 2000 is shown below.

YEARJJ Thomson MedalFleming MedalCrompton MedalHeaviside MedalMensforth Medal
2000John Cioffi  United States----
2001Ian K Proudler  United Kingdom----
2002-----
2003John O'Reilly  United Kingdom----
2004-----
2005-----
2006----Edward Atkin[13]  United Kingdom
2007Julian Gardner  United KingdomSimon Kingsley  United Kingdom-Ian Postlethwaite  United KingdomSir Anthony Bamford  United Kingdom
2008William Milne  United KingdomBrijendra K Syngal  IndiaJohn GP Scott  United KingdomMichael J Grimble  United KingdomSir Alan Jones  United Kingdom
2009Kam-Yin Lau[14]  United StatesChai Keong Toh  SingaporeHarbans Bajaj  IndiaPetros Ioannou  United StatesHamid Mughal  United Kingdom
2010-Vincent Poor United StatesRon Hui  China-Lianne Demming
2011Chris Toumazou  United KingdomC Christopoulous  United Kingdom[15]--Ralf Speth  Germany
2012-Paul Kane[16]  United Kingdom-Ramesh Agarwal[17]  United States-
2013David F Welch  United StatesBarry Evans[18]  United KingdomGraham T Reed  United KingdomChris Hadfield  CanadaNigel Whitehead  United Kingdom
2014S Ravi Silva  United Kingdom---Gavin Campbell  United Kingdom
2015Asad Madni  United States [19]----
2016Alan E. Willner  United States---Tom Williams[20] CBE  United Kingdom
2017M. C. Frank Chang[21]  United States----
2018Nigel M Allinson  United Kingdom----
2019Chenming Hu  United States---Marcus Burton[22]  United Kingdom

  • Winners of J. J. Thomson Medal include John Cioffi (Stanford), Kam-Yin Lau (U C Berkeley).[23] Chancellor Sir John O'Reilly of Cranfield UK also won the medal in 2003.[24]
  • Vincent Poor, Dean of Engineering at Princeton won the IET Ambrose Fleming Medal in 2010.
  • Southampton wireless communications professor Lajos Hanzo received the Sir Monty Medal in 2008.[25]
  • Bath-based Internet Pioneer Paul Kane won the medal in 2012.[26] Prof. Ramesh Agarwal from Washington St. Luis got the IET Medal for Control in 2012.[27]
  • Simon Kingsley won the Ambrose Fleming Medal in 2007.[28]
  • Ron Hui from University of Hong Kong won the IET medal in power in 2010.[29]
  • B L Weiss from University of Leeds won the IET medal in electronics.[30]
  • Christos Christopoulos from the University of Nottingham, UK won the IET Medal in Communications and Information in 2011[31]
  • Lajos Hanzo from University of Southampton won IET Medal in engineering and technology in 2008.[32]
  • Asad M. Madni from UCLA, USA won the IET Medal in 2005.[33]
  • John Armitt from Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) won the IET Sarah Guppy Medal in 2011.[34]
  • Ian Postlethwaite from University of Leicester won the medal in 2007 for control engineering.[35]

A full list of winners since 1987 can be found on the IET website.[8]

See also

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  15. "Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK".
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  29. "Ron Hui won IET Medal in Power,". University of Hong Kong.
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