Churchill Medal Award 2012/13

Celebrating achievement in engineering and technical advancement in support of military operations The IET is proud to lead on the awarding of the Professional Engineering Institutions (PEI)* Churchill Medal.

The 2012/13 Award will be presented at the 2013 PEI Defence Lecture on Wednesday 03 July 2013.

Previous Medal Winners

This prestigious award, inherited from the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) has been previously presented to individuals such as Sir Frank Whittle (Jet Engine), Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (Aircraft), Sir Christopher Cockerell (Hover Craft) and Professor Alan Wells (Wells turbine for wave power).

Since the re-institution of the award, the two previous winners have been:

• 2011/12 Medal – Sgt Simon Nurse R SIGNALS for development of the networking solution for situational awareness across the Operation HERRICK Cortez system;

• 2010/11 Medal – Flt Lt David Ramsey RAF for his work in the development of technology to counter improvised explosive devices on Operation HERRICK.

Criteria for the Award

The award is for an individual or a small team (the majority of whom are serving members of the armed forces or were serving at the time) for achievement in engineering and technical advancement in support of military operations during the period of 01 April 2012 to 31 March 2013.

Citations

Managers or Commanding Officers of qualifying individuals or teams are asked to submit written citations. These should not exceed 1000 words and can include a maximum of one diagram and one photograph.

Deadline

The deadline for 12/13 Award has now passed. For further information please contact:

 

 

* Consisting of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Royal Engineers and Society of Operations Engineers.