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The IMechE Food Engineering Committee is proud to announce the opening of the IMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award 2008, which has been specifically designed to help raise the profile of food engineering and promote excellence within the industry.
This prestigious award of £1000 will be presented to the author of the best paper relating to the Food Industry. The competition is open to professional engineers, or undergraduates and graduates studying or training to become one. Papers are welcome from all areas of food engineering.
If you would like to enter the competition, please submit a synopsis of your proposed paper to the address below. Entries will be put to a panel of judges who will shortlist the submissions for the second stage of the competition. Those candidates short-listed will be asked to provide a full paper by a second deadline, after which the winner will be announced.
Deadline for synopsis 15 September 2008
For further details on this competition please contact Taz Khatun on Tel: (+44) 020 7973 1306 or Email: process@imeche.org
The IMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award is sponsored by the PM Group. With offices in Rugby and Basingstoke, PM Groups team of 1,600 people provides professional services in engineering and architectural design, project and construction management and technical consulting to the Biopharma and Food sectors.
The PM group supports the development of Food Engineering, education and training and operates on a worldwide basis providing engineering services to industry.
Regulations
1. The Award may be made to a person of any nationality or age, who need not be members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The competition is open to professional engineers, or undergraduates and graduates studying or training to become one. Papers are welcomed from all areas of food engineering
2. The Award will be made to the candidate considered by an adjudicating panel appointed by the Institution’s Food Engineering Committee to have made the most meritorious submission for the award. Joint submissions may be made where appropriate. In the event of a tie, or the selection of a joint submission, the cash prize would be shared equally between the successful candidates who each would receive a suitably engraved plaque.
3. Candidates must obtain and provide written confirmation of any necessary permission to submit material for consideration under this scheme.
4. The award will be made for what the adjudicators decide to be the best submitted piece of work involving any branch of engineering and any aspect of food for which the candidate (s) has (have) been responsible, taking into consideration:
- technical merit
- originality
- preparation, planning and execution
- understanding of the context
- actual or potential usefulness
- quality of literary and oral presentation
5. Candidates should first submit with their application a typewritten synopsis of the work with their application for approval in principle by the adjudicators.
Candidates whose synopses are approved will be invited to submit by a specified date a full account of the work to be considered for the award.
6. After considering the submissions the adjudicators may a) decide on the winner, or b) invite all or some of the candidates to present their work orally. Winner(s) will be selected and the award(s) presented at a suitable occasion.
7. The timetable for this year’s competition is:
Synopses to be sent in by 15 September 2008
Invited completed papers will be given a further deadline
All synopses / papers should be sent to:
Taz Khatun
Process Industries Division
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
1 Birdcage Walk
London, SW1H 9JJ
UK
Email:process@imeche.org
8. The award will be made annually provided the submissions received are of sufficient merit.
9. The IMechE Food Engineering Committee reserves the right to print papers of any winners/runners up in their newsletter.
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