IMechE Bulk Materials Handling Award for Innovation (Serial 345) is funded from the Trust for Education and Research.
Award Conditions:
To raise the profile of Bulk Materials Handling Technology and to reward instances of research, development or design which enhances the technology.
The prize will be presented to the author of the best paper relating to Bulk Materials Handling Technology, presented in the preceeding year.
IMechE reserves the right to withhold the award in any year, if the awarding committee do not believe there is a worthy candidate amongst the submissions received in that year.
Eligible candidates
Engineers, scientists, students, researchers and academic staff, are all eligible for the award.
• Candidates must be prepared to agree to IMechE publicising an extract of the content of the papers and the announcement of the names of the winner and runners up.
Work eligible for consideration
• The work will be judged on the basis of a single publication submitted to the IMechE for consideration.
• The publication must be in English and have been published either in the UK or in an international forum.
• The publication must have been put into the public domain within the specified timescale. This would be within the preceeding year.
• Publications will preferably take the form of a refereed journal/conference paper, although a thesis may be considered, as may an un-refereed publication if it demonstrates a high level of quality and significance in its content.
• It must be on research, developments or design that enhances some aspect of the engineering of bulk materials handling equipment, or takes, in some way, the technology beyond previous limits.
• It must be original and be able to be demonstrated to be the work of the candidate submitting the work. The awarding body reserves the right to interview candidates to establish this is the case.
• The submission must be accompanied by a letter of support from the candidate’s manager or supervisor stating that it is the work of the candidate alone or where there has been a significant input by others, identifying that part of the work which is the candidate’s alone.
Link to the United Kingdom
• There must be a strong relevance to UK practice. This will normally mean it meets any one or more of the following conditions, although work not fulfilling any of these criteria will be considered if it can be demonstrated that there is a strong relevance to UK practice.
The candidate to be a UK national, working anywhere in the world or;
The work to have been undertaken in the UK by a national of any country or;
The work to have been performed for a UK on-shore application
The Trustee Board Awards Committee reserve the right to relax or amend all or any of the terms of the award without notice, where they consider it is n the interest of the institution or the discipline to do so.
Number of Awards: 1
Value of Awards:
• An annual award of £250
• plus £50 for a framed inscribed certificate
If you would like to nominate someone for the 2008 Award, please contact
Taz Khatun on Tel: 020 7973 1306 or Email: process@imeche.org
Taz Khatun
Engineering Programmes
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
1 Birdcage Walk
London SW1H 9JJ
For further information on the Prizes and Awards please email prizesandawards@imeche.org
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