IET Ambition & Achievement Awards 2012 Ceremony

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IET Ambition &
Achievement Awards
2012 Ceremony
Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Brewery, London
www.theiet.org/awards
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IET Ambition and Achievement Awards
Congratulations to all the winners and my sincere thanks to everyone who took the
time to enter.
At the IET, we make it our priority to recognise and reward the next generation of
exceptional engineers and technicians.
The Ambition Awards celebrate the incredible wealth of talent this country has to offer;
particularly the achievements of talented young engineering professionals and students
who have shown themselves to be the best of the best.
I think it is absolutely right that as a community of practitioners we recognise and applaud
individuals who go the extra mile and push the boundaries of engineering and technology.
Promoting the talent and achievement of this year’s winners will help to inspire the next
generation of engineers.
The Achievement Awards recognise and celebrate individuals who have contributed hugely
to their field of work and made a material improvement in their workplace. They have
demonstrated the highest values of our profession.
This year’s Present around the World competition culminates today as five regional finalists
from across the globe give their final presentations and this afternoon you will decide the
winner. Practical demonstrations and public speaking remain vitally important skills for
engineers and I’m delighted to see these young people excelling in this area.
My thanks to our hard-working judges, who are all recognised industry leaders and experts
in science, engineering and technology, as well as our sponsors for their generous support.
After an incredible year that saw the UK’s engineering ability showcased to the world
through the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, we are proud to acknowledge
the next generation of engineers and technicians. I believe that those recognised by this
year’s awards will go on to become great ambassadors for UK engineering and we wish
them all the best of luck for the future.
Please enjoy the ceremony.
Nigel Fine BSc MBA CEng FICE FIET
Chief Executive
The IET
Contents
4 Sponsors 17 Postgraduate Scholarships
4 Presenter 19 Technical & Professional Network Awards
5 Programme 21 Undergraduate Scholarships & Grants
6 Faraday Medal 29 Present around the World competition
7 Honorary Fellowships 32 Prizes
10 Achievement Medals 36 2013 Awards
13 Achievement Awards 37 Sponsoring the 2013 Awards
15 Premium Awards 39 Contacts
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Sponsors
The IET would like to thank the following organisations for sponsoring
the IET Ambition and Achievement Awards 2012:
Presenter
Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley is a BBC science presenter, writer and executive producer.
He is the writer and presenter of BBC2’s acclaimed The Story of Science,
and is also the face of science and medicine on The One Show.
After training as a doctor at the Royal Free in London, Michael decided
to switch course and join the BBC. He initially worked behind the scenes
on Newsnight, Tomorrow’s World, Horizon and the popular business
series Troubleshooter.
Michael has since produced a wide range of science-based programmes
including The Human Face with John Cleese, three series with Professor
Robert Winston, and Jeremy Clarkson’s Inventions That Changed The
World. He also helped launch Alan Yentob’s presenting career with an
acclaimed appraisal of Leonardo da Vinci.
In front of camera, Michael has presented Make Me and 10 Things You
Never Knew about Losing Weight – as well as the BBC2 surgery series
Blood and Guts. He’s also fronted other BBC shows including Medical
Mavericks looking at those behind the great developments in medicine,
Inside the Human Body examining all the workings of the body, and
Frontline Medicine highlighting the innovative and vital link between
warfare and medicine. For Radio 4 he wrote and presented The Making
of Modern Medicine.
He has received a host of BAFTA and Emmy nominations, and has been
named Medical Journalist of the Year by the British Medical Association.
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Programme
12:00 Arrival and refreshments

13:00 Achievement Awards Ceremony
Presentation of:
The Faraday Medal
3 Honorary Fellowships
7 Achievement Medals
5 Awards for the best papers published in IET Research Journals
To include three presentations from ‘Present around the World’ finalists
The global final of this presentation competition for students and
young professionals will be incorporated into today’s ceremony.
Each of the five contestants will give a ten minute presentation and
the winning presentation will be announced later in the ceremony.
Towards the end of the ceremony the audience will be invited to vote
for the presenter whom they feel deserves first place.
14:10 Short Break

14:30 Ambition Awards Ceremony
20 Awards and Prizes to be presented to students and young professionals
To include two presentations from ‘Present around the World’ finalists
‘Present around the World’ competition judging

15:45 Drinks Reception
16:45 END
Go to www.theiet.org/ambition or www.theiet.org/achievement to view photographs
of the Awards Ceremony.
@IETAwards #IETaa
IET Awards Team, organisers of today’s event:
SHORTLISTED FOR:
BEST AWARDS TEAM
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Faraday Medal
The Faraday Medal is the IET’s most prestigious award. It commemorates
the fiftieth anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of
Telegraph Engineers. It is awarded for notable scientific or industrial
achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the
advancement of science, engineering and technology.
Dr Leonardo Chiariglione
Dr Chiariglione has been awarded the Faraday Medal in recognition of his
pioneering contribution to the standardisation of the digital compression
and encoding technique known as MPEG (Movie Picture Expert Group).
This is extensively employed for digital video and media compression
and has enabled the modern digital media revolution. From digital
video broadcast, to web content downloads to social networking, MPEG
technology is now part of the everyday life of billions of people around
the world.
Leonardo Chiariglione graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin in
Electronic Engineering and obtained his PhD degree in Electrical
Communication from the University of Tokyo.
He has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped
shape media technology and business as we know them today. Among
these is the International Workshop on HDTV established in 1986 and the
Moving Pictures Experts Group standards committee in 1988, which he
currently chairs. MPEG has developed an impressive portfolio of standard
technologies that have created an industry worth several hundred billion
US dollars and has been recognised by 3 Emmy Awards.
Dr. Chiariglione is the recipient of several awards: among these the IBC
John Tucker award, the Eduard-Rhein Foundation award, the IEEE Masaru
Ibuka Consumer Electronics award and the Kilby Foundation award.
He became the CEO of CEDEO.net in January 2004.
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Honorary Fellowships
The IET awards a small number of Honorary Fellowships each year and is one of the highest
honours bestowed by the Institution. Honorary Fellows are persons distinguished by their work
in any engineering discipline falling within the objects and purposes of the IET, or distinguished
persons whom the IET desires to honour for services rendered to the IET, or whose association
is of benefit to the IET. Honorary Fellows are entitled to use the designatory letters HonFIET
(Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology).
The IET has awarded Honorary Fellowships since 1873.
Professor Alf Adams FRS
We are delighted to welcome Professor Adams as an Honorary Fellow
of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in recognition of his work
on strained quantum well lasers.
Alf Adams read physics at the University of Leicester and was awarded a
BSc in 1961 and a PhD in 1964. After completing his PhD research into
the electrical and optical properties of orthorhombic sulphur, he spent two
years at the University of Karlsruhe studying the thermal and thermoelectric
properties of selenium and tellurium. In 1967 he joined the University of
Surrey, where he is now Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Semiconductor lasers have been one of his major interests since 1980
when he spent sabbatical leave at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In Surrey
he founded the Optoelectronics group and helped establish the Advanced
Technology Institute where he has developed unique techniques to study
semiconductor optoelectronic devices using hydrostatic pressure. In 1986
he proposed that the electronic band structure of quantum well lasers could
be significantly improved by deliberately growing the active layer in a state of
strain. It was found that this greatly improved almost all the lasers properties
and presently strained quantum-well devices dominate the semiconductor
laser market.
They are used for the internet both to generate the initial signals and to
supply power to the fibre amplifiers that help the data on its way. Shorter
wavelength devices are used in DVDs, computer memories and mice, for
printing and for bar-code readers, and even to provide the power for metal
cutting and welding. At longer wavelengths they are used for chemical
sensing, for pollution monitoring and in medicine. Because of their high
wall-plug efficiency and high output power, strained quantum-well lasers
are likely to play a key role in the future for displays and solid-state lighting.
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Honorary Fellowships
Dr N F Chin BSc MSc PhD
We are delighted to welcome Dr Chin as an Honorary Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in recognition of his
outstanding contribution to the promotion of the IET worldwide and
in Hong Kong in particular.
Dr Chin graduated from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, with a
1st class degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 1974, after
gaining a 1st class Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Technical
College of Malaysia. The university awarded him the IEE Magnus MacLean
Memorial Medallion for distinction in Electrical Engineering. With a
scholarship from the university he continued his studies for a year, leading
to an MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1976. In 1995 he received a
PhD from Bath University for his research work in power system protection.
Dr Chin started his professional career in power system protection with GEC
Measurements, Stafford, working on power system protection, communication
and control. In 1981 he moved to the Commercial Department and started
his tour of overseas duty stationing in Hong Kong to develop and manage
the company’s business in the Far East Region, where he developed the
business from less than £1million in 1981 to over 20 times that amount by
1998. In July 2001 Dr Chin left GEC after over 25 years and set up his own
operation in Hong Kong as a highly-successful consulting engineer on power
system protection, offering services in engineering consultancy, technical
training and sales & marketing of power-engineering-related products.
N F Chin has served on many IET Boards and Committees, including the
BETNET TPN Executive Team, Publications Board, Technical and Professional
Services Board, Global Operations Board and Board of Trustees. His work as
an International Membership Advisor and an assessor of applications for
professional registration has been tireless. In addition, Dr Chin has been a
major force in creating and managing IET Hong Kong and ensuring that it
has become one of the most dynamic and successful Local Networks of
the IET.
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Honorary Fellowships
Dr Irwin Mark Jacobs
We are delighted to welcome Dr Jacobs as an Honorary Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology in recognition of his contribution
to the development of telecommunications.
Dr Irwin Jacobs is an electrical engineer, the Founding Chairman and CEO
Emeritus of Qualcomm, and the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Salk Institute.
He earned his BS degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in
1956, and his SM and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957 and
1959, respectively. He worked at MIT until 1966 and was then Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San
Diego, from 1966 to 1972.
In 1968 Dr Jacobs co-founded Linkabit Corporation with Andrew Viterbi to
develop satellite encryption devices. That company merged with M/A-COM
in 1980. In 1985 he went on to co-found Qualcomm, a company known
for its innovative cellular phone technology and as the largest supplier of
semiconductors to wireless phone manufacturers. The company expanded
to include over 14,000 employees and annual revenues over $10 billion.
For his development of CDMA, Dr Jacobs was awarded the National
Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1994. In 1995, he won the
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for outstanding contributions to
telecommunications, including leadership, theory, practice and product
development. He was named a Marconi Prize recipient and Marconi
Fellow in 2011. Dr Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Achievement Medals
IET Achievement Medals are awarded to individuals who have made major
contributions in the various sectors of engineering and technology.
Ambrose Fleming Medal for Achievement
in Communications
Mr Paul M Kane
Paul M Kane, Chairman and CEO of Community DNS is awarded his medal
in recognition of his outstanding excellence in promoting innovative system
design and delivering advanced technical management of information and
communications services to the global internet community.
Coales Medal for Achievement in Transport
Dr Robert Pleming FRAeS MIET MBCS
Dr Robert Pleming, of the Vulcan Project, is awarded the medal for his
leadership of a small team who began in 1997 to successfully restore the
Avro Vulcan XH558, the last flying representative embodying Britain’s jet
aircraft leadership. Vulcan XH558 flew again, fourteen years after her RAF
grounding, subsequently impressing more than 8 million people around
the UK. During this time, Robert has helped to raise £14million towards
this unique project.
Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control
Professor Ramesh Agarwal PhD FIET
Professor Agarwal, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington
University in St Louis, USA, is awarded the medal for his pioneering
development of Computational Fluid Dynamics methods and industrial
grade codes and their ingenious applications to the analysis and
design of all categories of actual flying air and space vehicles and for
fundamental contributions to computational aeroacoustics, computational
electromagnetics and magnetohydrodynamics and rarefied gas dynamics.
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