The Whittle Reactionaries Prize (Serial 258) is funded from The General Trust Fund. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 25 July 2008
 Download conditions
The Prize will be adjudicated by a panel of engineers chosen by the Combined Propulsion Technical Committee of the IMechE/Royal Aeronautical Society.
Trust Conditions:
The Whittle Reactionaries Prize Fund was established in 1998 by a group of Institution members in recognition of those engineers and others who had directly assisted Sir Frank Whittle in his company Power Jets Ltd during its pioneering and evolutionary work with reaction propulsion (jet propulsion) from the first experiments in 1937 to first operation use of Whittle Type W2B engines in an RAF Meteor aircraft in 1944.
Donations have been made by the surviving members of this team and others associated with this momentous period in British engineering history which provided the foundation for the majority of the aircraft power plants in current use today. Donations have also been made in memory of the aircraft power plants in current use today. Donations have also been made in memory of the substantial number of original Reactionaries who, like Sir Frank Whittle, have passed on to higher things.
Award Conditions:
As Trust Conditions.
The objective of the prize is to stimulate and encourage those in the early stages of their engineering career to continue to apply innovative and forward-looking thinking to aerospace propulsion problems that demonstrates:
- technical excellence,
- originality and independent thinking,
- high-quality presentation and effective communication.
The author shall be either an undergraduate or postgraduate studying at a UK university, or a recent graduate working in British industry.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 25 July 2008
Further details can be obtained by contacting
Aerospace Industries Division
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
1 Birdcage Walk
London
SW1H 9JJ
t: (+44) 020 7973 1242
e: aerospace@imeche.org
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