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Excellence in engineering: join us in celebration

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Our Awards celebrate excellence across engineering and related fields
Our Awards celebrate excellence across engineering and related fields

£18,000 worth of prizes are on offer for the winners of this year’s IMechE Prestige Awards

What are our Prestige Awards?

Our annual IMechE Prestige Awards:

“celebrate and recognise excellent engineering in both academia and professional practice. They champion engineers who have improved the world or advanced the discipline of engineering both through professional and volunteering efforts,”  Terry Spall, President, IMechE

Previous winners include Professor Ahmed Kovacevic, who won the James Clayton Prize for his outstanding contributions in the field of Fluid Machinery, ;and Jude Pullen, who received the Alastair Graham-Bryce Award for his outstanding contributions to numerous educational STEM projects for children and adults alike.

The awards are historically presented in person at One Birdcage Walk. However, 2020 looked very different, of course, with our celebration taking place via a new virtual format hosted by the IMechE President, Terry Spall, and the Chief Executive, Colin Brown. Winners are presented with a certificate, medal and/or prize money: see our individual award pages for further information.

Prestige Awards now open:

  • Alistair Graham-Bryce Award awarded to an individual or group who has made a significant contribution to the encouragement of young people towards a career in engineering.
  • Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering recognises any eminent engineer who has contributed most to the understanding and/or reduction of risk in any area of mechanical engineering.

  • James Clayton Prize is awarded for exceptional contribution to mechanical engineering and related science, technology, and invention.

  • James Watt International Gold Medal recognises an eminent engineering who has attained worldwide recognition in mechanical engineering in any direction science and research, invention, or production.

  • Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal & George Stephenson Gold Medal is awarded for the best original papers published by the Institution during the past 12 months.

  • Verena Winifred Holmes Award recognises those individuals who have achieved by undertaking a unique challenge or experience, perhaps to benefit people from groups with different needs, or with a past record of disadvantage or low participation (previously known as the Equality and Diversity Award).

How to apply

To nominate, or self-nominate, complete and submit the application form for your chosen Prestige Award by 31 March 2021.

Find out about all IMechE awards

Do you have what it takes to be recognised and awarded in 2021?

Encouraging innovation, entrepreneurship and lifelong learning, our scholarships and awards are here to help you when you need it most. Explore all our awards - discover if one of them is for you.

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