Volunteer Core Value Awards - winners

2022 Winners

Integrity

Awarded to Richard Meadows.

As an IET Professional Registration Advisor (PRA) Richard has been consulting and supporting several engineers at Megger Instruments at various levels of professional registration, and many have enjoyed Richard's extremely valuable and effective consultations.

Richard maintains a perfect balance between encouraging comments and assessment of real capabilities of each candidate.  His calm and honest assessment precipitates a feeling of confidence in the candidate, even though there can sometimes be serious shortcomings for the aspired level of registration.  Richard’s fantastic ability to point out positive aspects has been experienced by many.

Richard is a retired engineer and has been working as a dedicated PRA for many years, nurturing those who dare to aspire. His dedication is indeed praiseworthy, and his level of professionalism exudes confidence in all things IET.

Excellence

Awarded to Ejay Nsugbe.

In 2019 Ejay was a finalist who took part in the STEM based “I’m an Engineer Get Me Out of Here” competition sponsored by the Welcome Trust; having won and received seedcorn funding, it is being spent on visiting rural schools.  Ejay also joined IET Council in 2019, where he co-authored the Council update for the IET’s membership magazine, Members News.

In 2020, Ejay represented the IET on a project in collaboration with the RAEng, Association of Female Women Engineers Nigeria and University of the West of Scotland.  The project was related to the training of 200 female teachers in sub-Saharan Africa towards an effective means of delivering STEM content to students.  A six-monthly mentorship programme has also now been incepted to help in the coaching and mentoring of young graduates towards effective professional skills. 

In 2021, Ejay was appointed as Chair for the Control and Automation Technical Network, where he is leading a group towards national scale dissemination of related topics.  He has also been appointed as Chair for the inaugural IET award themed around Engineering in Society, and has embraced the challenge of leading the panel in establishing the award as one of the IET’s premier engineering awards.

In 2022, Ejay was an engineering finalist at the annual STEM in Britain Competition where he was invited to British Parliament to present his work on AI in Pregnancy to a group of MP’s, Policy Makers and Academics alike.

Teamwork

Awarded to the Taylors University On Campus Group.

The Taylors University On Campus Group from Malaysia organised fantastic support at the beginning of 2022 to address the destruction caused by the floods in December and January. 

Being engineers they always strive hard to create solutions for existing problems facing, and faced by, their communities. In the blink of the flood scenario lots of people lost their livelihoods, some schools were damaged, and some were closed due to the post flood effects.

Being a small team they couldn’t cater much help, but did identify a kindergarten school whose facility was totally submerged in flood water and all the electrical installations malfunctioned. 

As a group of students from an electrical engineering background they were able to source and replace all the required electrical appliances for the kindergarten. This activity created a real impact among Taylorians and the Bukit Lanchong community, with the act of kindness shared by other Taylor's students’ clubs who followed their lead for other facilities.

The IET Volunteer Core Values Award for Teamwork is in recognition of their efforts to positively impact their local community in the wake of a crisis.