Recognition awards
Recognise the academic and professional achievements of your students or colleagues by nominating them for a recognition award.
The Institution is keen to recognise innovation and excellence in academia and industry. As a university head of department, you can reward outstanding and exceptional academic achievement by nominating your best students for recognition awards.
As a professional engineer, you can reward your colleagues and peers for their achievements which can truly be said to have improved the world, or advanced the discipline of mechanical engineering. Professional recognition awards acknowledge world-class research and innovation. The highest of these awards are the Institution’s two premier prizes, the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal, which recognises the best original paper in a year, and the James Watt International Gold Medal, which recognises international achievement in applying science to progress mechanical engineering.
University awards
University heads of department can reward their students for academic excellence.
The Best Student Certificate is for the mechanical engineering student who is first in their class.
A student who has completed an outstanding research, development or design project can be nominated by their head of department for a certificate or prize.
Research papers
Rewarding the best original papers published by the Institution each year are the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal – the Institution’s premier prize – and the George Stephenson Research Fund.
This award is for the best paper published by the Institution in the previous year on the subject for promoting safety in engineering.
Other professional recognition awards
Awards for members whose research, publication, innovation or achievement have helped those with special needs.
The James Watt International Gold Medal is awarded for internationally recognised achievement in applying science to progress mechanical engineering.