Guidance for entrants
The closing date for entries to the Innovation in Engineering Awards 2007 has now passed.
General guidance for entrants
- Review the judging criteria for the category to be entered, and the general criteria below
- Download and complete the appropriate entry form.
- Submit your entry, with supporting documents (if any) by 30 July 2007, via our online submission system
- The information supplied will be made available to all judges and may be used in published information relating to the awards
- Sponsoring organisations are ineligible to submit entries for the category they are sponsoring
Please note that the 'Standard' form can be used for all categories except for Asset management, Project team, Software in design and Start-up as these require the completion of separate forms.
The entry forms carry the original closing date of 30 June. The closing date has now been extended to 30 July 2007.
Judging process
A panel of 4-5 judges, including a recognised industry expert as chairperson will judge the entries to each award category. Judging panels will include selected members of the relevant Institution executive committee(s) and a representative of the sponsoring organisation.
All entries will be circulated to the judges during July. Over a 3-4 week period each judge will evaluate the entries and apply a personal 'score' to the entry.
The results from individual judges will be submitted to the chair of the judging panel and the panel will then meet to determine the short listed finalists (up to a maximum of 4/5). The winner will be chosen in the weeks preceding the awards presentation event and announced on the night.
General judging criteria
Entries in all categories should show a plan or design for a new, altered or improved product, process or service for commercial use. Judges will be looking for entries that:
- Demonstrate genuine technological novelty
- Represent a significant technological advance with significant Technical risks associated with the technology challenge
- Demonstrate that the proposed work represents a significant technological advance for the industry or technology sector
Entries should be submitted for engineering projects and products that demonstrate the application of innovative design, technology, techniques and processes.
Those projects that will be innovative for the business alone are not acceptable.
Selection criteria
In addition, judges will be applying the following selection criteria:
- Social Impact - an innovation that changes society but may or may not have a financial impact
- Economic Impact - an innovation that demonstrates a significant financial impact at the business or society level
- Personal Impact - an innovation that demonstrates a significant impact on the lives of one or more individual
- Learning - the extent to which the innovation contributes to the body of knowledge
- Novelty - the extent to which the idea is 'new to humanity' rather than just new to the business
- Process - an innovation that improves the way in which products or services are delivered to a client
- "Patentability" - the extent to which the idea has defensible patent potential
- Collaboration - an innovative organisational grouping to achieve one or more common aims
- Organisational Innovation - an innovation that is concerned with creating an effective working environment and/or organisational culture
In summary
Entries are encouraged from organisations that:
- Innovate a new world beating product or service
- Innovate by adopting new technology/processes to improve what they already do