Journal Article

Author

Institution of Engineers Australia

Title

Colleges : The Institution's Awards

In

Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

Editor

Henderson, Robin

Imprint

vol. 49, 25 Mar 1977, p. 40

ISBN/ISSN

0020-3319

Abstract

Describes the Institution's national level awards, following the review by Vice President Ken Kelsall, and following the restructure of the Institution into Colleges.

The Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal remains the premier award of the Institution. Open awards and specialty awards will be awarded by each college.

* College of Chemical Engineers: Open award - John A. Brodie Medal;
* College of Civil Engineers: Open award - W. H. Warren Medal;
* College of Civil Engineers - Specialty award for Structural engineering: R. W. Chapman Medal;
* College of Electrical Engineers: Open award - John Madsen Medal;
* College of Mechanical Engineers: Open award - George Julius Medal;
* General College of Engineering: Open award - John Monash Medal.

New names and medals to come into use in 1978 based on work done or published in 1977. The 1976 awards to be presented in March 1977 at Cooma will continue to use the old system.

Awards for 1976, under the previous arrangements are listed

Related entries

Awards

• Chemical Engineering Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia (1964 - 1975)

  'John A Brodie Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Chemical Engineers from 1977.' No award for 1976

• Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - 1975)

  'John Madsen Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Electrical Engineers. 1976 Electrical Engineering Prize to P M Roberts for "The application of phase locked loop techniques to the generation of narrowband continuous phase binary frequency shift keying"'

• John A Brodie Medal, Institution of Engineers Australia (1976 - )

  'John A Brodie Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Chemical Engineers from 1977.'

• John Madsen Medal, Institution of Engineers Australia (1976 - )

  'John Madsen Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Electrical Engineers from 1977.'

• John Monash Medal, Engineering Heritage Australia (1976 - )

  'John Monash Medal - Award to be presented by the General College of Engineering.'

• Mechanical Engineering Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia (1955 - 1975)

  'George Julius Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Mechanical Engineers from 1977. 1976 Mechanical Engineering Award to Dr R I Mair and R A Jupp for their paper "Rail Track for Heavy Unit Operations"'

• Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1922 - )

  'Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Award to be continued to be presented by Council'.

• R. W. Chapman Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1935 - )

  'R. W. Chapman Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Civil Engineers. No award for 1976'.

• Sir George Julius Medal, Institution of Engineers Australia (1976 - )

  'George Julius Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Mechanical Engineers from 1977'

• W. H. Warren Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1926 - )

  'W. H. Warren Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Civil Engineers. 1976 Award to J.W. Morgan and V.R. Beck "Failure of Sheet-Metal Roofing under repeated Wind Loading". Highly commended: L Gomes and B J Vickery. "On Thunderstorm Wind Gusts in Australia"'.