Sir George Julius Medal (1976 - )

Summary

The Sir George Julius Medal has been awarded since 1976, by the Mechanical College of Engineers Australia, to the author(s) of the publication in the field of mechanical engineering in Australia judged to be the best of those submitted for consideration. The publication may be for a paper, group of related papers, book or monograph.

The successful recipient(s) are presented with a Bronze Medal and accompanying Certificate at an appropriate Engineers Australia Mechanical College event in their home state.

From 1976 to 2001, the award was known as the George Julius Medal, which replaced the Mechanical Engineering Prize that was established in 1955.

The medal perpetuates the memory of George Alfred Julius (1873-1946) who practised in Sydney as a consulting engineer in the mechanical/electrical field and who invented the world's first automatic totalisator in Australia in 1913.

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Timeline

 1955 - 1975 Mechanical Engineering Prize
       1976 - Sir George Julius Medal

Published resources

Journal Articles

• 'High technology needed for defence', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 57 (13) (1985), 16. George Julius Medal (1984 Award) - to Richard Frost, for the paper "Systematic strategy for functionally related design tasks", Mechanical Engineering Transactions. Details
• Henderson, Robin, 'Colleges : Mechanical College - George Julius Medal [1982]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 55 (6) (1983), 38. George Julius Medal (1982 Award) - to A W Roberts, P C Arnold, A G McLean and O J Scott, for the paper "The design of gravity storage systems for bulk solids", Sep 1982, Mechanical Engineering Transactions. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Colleges : The Institution's Awards', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 49 (1977), 40. George Julius Medal - Award to be presented by the College of Mechanical Engineers from 1977. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'A.G.M. Michell Award [to Prof Ken Hunt, and George Julius Medal to George Lorenz]', The Chartered Engineer Victoria (1979), 11. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'A.G.M. Michell Medal [to Prof Ken Hunt, and George Julius Medal to George Lorenz]', The Chartered Engineer Victoria (1979), 3. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Annual Report 1979 [Sixtieth Annual Report]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 52 (5) (1980), 69-79. 'Awards - George Julius Medal (1979 Award) - to Dr G M Tostevin and Prof R E Luxton', p.48. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Annual Report of the Colleges 1983', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 56 (4) (1984), 41-48. 'George Julius Medal (1982 Award) - to Professor A W Roberts, Dr P C Arnold and Dr A G Mclean, for the paper "The design of gravity storage systems for bulk solids"', p.45. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Annual Report of the Colleges 1984', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 57 (1984), 44-49. 'College of Mechanical Engineers: George Julius Medal (1983 Award) - to Dr G R Quick for the paper "Analysis, simulation and evaluation of stump-jump mechanisms on Australian broadacre tillage equipment" in ME8, n2, Aug1983', p.48. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Fine achievements recognised [IEAust Colleges]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 62 (24) (1990), 33-34. 'Mechanical College - George Julius Medal (1989 Award) - winners were Dr J F Williams of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Melbourne University, and Dr R Jones and N Goldsmith, both from the Aeronautical Research Laboratory of the Defence Science & Technology Organisation in Melbourne, for the paper "An introduction to fracture mechanics, theory and case studies", published as a special issue of the Mechanical Engineering Transactions in 1989', p.33-34. Details

Reports

• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1980 [Sixty-first Annual Report] (1981), 16 pp. 'George Julius Medal (1980 Award) - to Dr H G Hornung, MIEAust', p.10. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1982 [Sixty-third Annual Report] (1983), 16 pp. 'George Julius Medal (1981 Award) - to Mr R T Clark, MIEAust, Mr B L Manser, MIEAust; George Julius Medal (1982 Award) - to Professor A W Roberts, FIEAust, Dr P C Arnold, FIEAust, Dr A G McLean, MIEAust', p.11. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1983 [Sixty-fourth Annual Report] (1984), 16 pp. 'George Julius Medal (1983 Award) - to Dr G R Quick, MIEAust', p.12. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1992 [Seventy-third Annual Report] (1993), 40 pp. 'Awards and Honours - George Julius Medal: Dr Gwidon Stachowiak, Thomas Kirk', p.11. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Engineers Australia Annual Report 2003 (2003), 22 pp. 'George Julius medal … was awarded to the late Professor Michael Norton for his many publications in the field', p.16. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Engineers Australia Annual Report 2003-4 (2004), 77 pp. 'George Julius Medal - will be awarded in late 2004. The award has not been awarded for a number of years due to the problems surounding the journal in the past few years', Part 2, p.44. Details

See also

• Bruno, Frank; Nguan Hwee Steven Tay; Belusko, Martin, 'Minimising energy usage for domestic cooling with off-peak PCM storage', Energy and Buildings, 76 (2014), 347-353, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.069. [Award winning paper 2016]. Details
• Forbes, Gareth L.; Randall, Robert B., 'Estimation of turbine blade natural frequencies from casing pressure and vibration measurements', Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 36 (2) (2013), 549-561, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2012.11.006. [Award winning paper 2014]. Details
• Frost, Richard, 'Systematic strategy for functionally related design tasks', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME9 (1984). [Award winning paper 1984]. Details
• Hornung, H. G., 'Gasdynamics research in Australia', in 7th Australasian Conference on Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics 1980 (1980), pp. 287-294., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.562677873268289. [Award winning paper 1980]. Details
• Kirk, T. B.; and Stachowiak, G. W., 'The applications of fractals to the morphological description of particles generated in tribological systems', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME16 (4) (1991), 279-293. [Award winnng paper 1991]. Details
• Lumley, Roger, 'The development of high strength and ductility in high-pressure die-cast Al-Si-Mg alloys from secondary sources', The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 71 (2019), 382-390, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-018-3121-8. [Award winning paper 2019]. Details
• Manser, B. L.; Clark, R., 'Dragline ropes: assessment of rope loads and other factors affecting rope life', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME6 (1) (1981), 59-65, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/engine.851944. [Award winning paper 1981]. Details
• Mehdizadeh-Rad, Hooman; Mehdizadeh-Rad, Farhad; Zhu, Furong; Jai Singh, Jai, 'Heat mitigation in perovskite solar cells: The role of grain boundaries', Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells Journal, 220 (2021), 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110837. [Award winning paper 2022]. Details
• Quick, G. R., 'Analysis, simulation and evaluation of stump-jump mechanisms on Australian broadacre tillage equipment', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME8 (2) (1983), 67-72. [Award winning paper 1983]. Details
• Roberts, A. W.; Arnold, P. C.; McLean, A. G.; Scott, O. J., 'The design of gravity storage systems for bulk solids', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME7 (3) (1982), 81-95, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/engine.853512. [Award winning paper 1982]. Details
• Roy, Taposh; Paradowska, Anna; Abrahams, Ralph; Law, Michael; Mutton, Peter; Soodi, Mehdi; Yan, Wenyi, 'Residual stress in laser cladded heavy-haul rails investigated by neutron diffraction', Journal of Materials Processing Technology (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2019.116511. [Award winning paper 2021]. Details
• Salehi, Iman; Kapoor, Ajay; Mutton, Peter, 'Multi-axial fatigue analysis of aluminothermic rail welds under high axle load conditions', International Journal of Fatigue, 33 (9) (2011), 1324-1336, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2011.04.010. [Award winning paper 2013]. Details
• Tostevin, G. M.; Luxton, R. E., 'The nature of thermal energy systems', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME4 (1979), 1-10. [Award winning paper 1979]. Details
• Vakiloroaya, Vahid; Ha, Quang P.; and Samali, Bijan, 'Energy-efficient HVAC systems: Simulation-emperical modelling and gradient optimization', Automation in Construction, 31 (2013), 176-185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2012.12.006. [Award winning paper 2015]. Details
• Williams, J. F.; Jones, R.; Goldsmith, N., 'An introduction to fracture mechanics: theory and case studies', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Mechanical Engineering, ME14 (4) (1989), 185-226. [Award winnng paper 1989]. Details
• Wittek, Adam; Miller, Karol; Kikinis, Ron; Warfield, Simon K., 'Patient specific model of brain deformation: Application to medical image registration', Journal of Biomechanics, 40 (4) (2007), 919-929, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.02.021. [Award winning paper 2012]. Details