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The Welding Institute Awards and Nominations 2009 - recognising achievement in welding and joining

The Council of the Welding Institute confers a number of awards on an annual basis. The categories are listed below and you will find a brief description and the requirements for citation by clicking on the link.

• Brooker Medal
• Lidstone Medal
• Larke-Lillicrap Award
• Bevan Braithwaite Award
• Distinguished Service Award
• Honorary Fellowship
• Richard Weck
• Richard Dolby
• Certificate Course Prize

Proposers should make nominations online. Please complete and submit the nomination form.

Only properly completed nominations can be considered by TWI's Awards Committee.

Please carefully observe the requirements for citations.

Deadline for nominations is 31 May 2010

For further information contact Moire Jarritt. Tel: 01223 899000. Email: twiawards@twi.co.uk

How to Nominate

1. Select the award that is most appropriate to the nominee's achievements and ensure that the nominee meets all of the necessary award criteria.
2. Write a justification (< 100 words) stating how and why the nominee satisfies the award criteria.
3. Write a summary of achievements relevant to the award, including references to supporting published work. The summary must explain what the nominee has achieved and be suitable for use as the basis of the award citation.
4. Complete the electronic nomination form, ensuring that all contact details for the nominee and yourself are completed.
5. Forward the nomination form to : twiawards@twi.co.uk

The Brooker Medal, sponsored by Johnson Matthey plc, is awarded in recognition of the recipient's personal contribution to the science, technology and industrial exploitation of materials joining. It recognises high industrial, research or educational responsibility of a character which has beneficially influenced the advancement of materials joining technology.

Previous Winners

1978   H C Cotton	1986   R L Apps	1994   W I Pumphrey	2003   L Quintino
1979   J G Ball	1987   P T Houldcroft	1995   J D Harrison	2004 Q Guan
1980   E G West	1988   J F Lancaster	1996   F M Burdekin	2005   L Karlsson
1981   J C Needham	1989   R E Dolby	1998   T R Gurney	2006   Professor Nobutaka Yurioka
1982   E Fuchs	1990   A S Bahrani	1999   J D Russell	2007   Professor J Knott
1983   D J W Boag	1991   N T Williams	2000   M Ushio	2008   Dr S J Maddox
1984   F S Dickinson	1992   J L Sanders	2001   U Dilthey
1985   I G Hamilton	1993   A T Price	2002   H K D H Bhadeshia

Bevan Braithwaite Award was a new award for 2008 and is made in recognition of the recipient's enterprise to the benefit of welding and joining. It recognises enthusiastic and passionate promotion of a vision, and strategic drive to cause that vision to become a successful reality. A positive thinker and a decision-maker, the recipient will have shown persistence and determination in the face of challenges, and will have been innovative and resourceful in managing risks and persuading others to take advantage of opportunities to start new organisations or revitalise existing organisations. Enterprising activities may be substantially different depending on the type of organization and sphere of influence. They may range from solo projects to major undertakings and may benefit welding and joining in a variety of ways, including; development of new markets, discovery of new sources of materials, mobilisation of capital resources, introduction of new technologies, creation of employment, and generation of economic growth.

Previous winners

2008   Dr J G Garland

The Leslie Lidstone Medal, sponsored by ESAB Group UK, is awarded annually to the person under 40 years of age who is deemed to have made the most significant contribution, not associated with the manufacture and supply of welding consumables and equipment to the advancement of welding technology during the period of five years proceeding the year of the award.

Previous Winners

1978   Dr S B Jones	1985   Dr R R Wright	1991   Dr D S Taylor	2006   Dr L S Smith
1979   Dr N T Dick	1986   Dr S J Garwood	1996   Dr I M Richardson	2007   Dr M J Russell
1980   Dr T G Gooch	1987   Dr R Rivett	1998   S T Riches	2008   Professor M Fitzpatrick
1981   Dr P R Kirkwood	1988   Dr C J Allum	1999   Dr C S Wiesner
1982   Dr P J Alberry	1989   P J Mudge	2000   S A Jones
1983   Dr S J Maddox	1990   Dr P Hopkins	2002   Dr S S Babu
1984   Dr R John	1992   Dr R A Ainsworth	2004   B G I Dance

The Larke-Lillicrap Award is awarded annually to the individual or team who has had most influence or impact upon the practical application of novel welding or joining knowledge or technology. The subject may be presented in a published academic or research paper but the nomination will be assessed on its practical application value and impact on welding and joining in real-world engineering. Engineering project applications may well be used to support nominations but it is essential that the technical content has been published to the benefit of the welding and joining community.

2008   Dr H Pisarski

Previous Winners (The Sir Charles Lillicrap Medal)

1984   L Henderson	1994   J H Powell and P G Sheasby
1986   A Vines	1996   S J Maddox
1988   J R Still and Dr T L Anderson	1998   A N R Hunter, E J MacDonald and E G Taylor
1990   Prof I Hrivnak	2000   D J Waldron
1992   W A Lees	2002   J Tolaini and A J Wilby

Previous Winners (The Sir William J Larke Medal)

1968   A A Wells	1981   R E Dolby	2003   B K Christner
1970   T Boniszewski	1983   C J Allum	2005   R J Pargeter
1974   J G Garland and P R Kirkwood	1985   P H M Hart and H Terashima	2007   Dr K Li
1976   T R Gurney	1988   G Rider and C J Smith
1977   A F Gifford and O K Gorton	1989   P L Harrison and R A Farrar
1978   W Lucas, J A Street and P V C Watkins	1991   H K D H Bhadeshia and L-E Svensson
1979   D A Wolstenholme	1995   W M Thomas
1980   J D Harrison	2001   W Lucas

Distinguished Service Award
Members and Branches of the Welding & Joining Society are invited to make nominations for this award, which is offered in recognition of outstanding contributions to The Welding Institute on a national basis, as a result of which the position of the Institute has been significantly advanced.

Previous Winners

J S Allen	H H Mackintosh	D Slater	A T Price
F M Burdekin	D J Ellis	J C M Farrar	A J Rodgers
T J H Webborn	V S Wright	P J Hobbs	D N Shackleton
L J Huart	T E M Jones	J C Lochhead	T J Jessop
A F Gifford	W McEwan	J D Pearsall	J A Marlow

Honorary Fellowship of The Welding Institute is conferred in recognition of the recipient's contributions to, and standing in, the welding engineering community at an international level.


Further TWI Awards

TWI Commendation Award is conferred by TWI to provide recognition for special achievements by any TWI staff.

Previous Winners

P H M Hart    P A Brown    S M Willis    L J Dumper    J Orchard

Richard Weck Award is made annually for the most worthy Industrial Members' Report from the Core Research Programme. The award is named after Richard Weck, a former Director General of BWRA and The Welding Institute.

2004	A Gregori and D Bertaso
2005	G Shi and S Westgate
2006	C Ribton
2007	D P Baxter and R I Hammond
2008	C Nageswaran and C Bird

Richard Dolby - Rolls Royce Prize is conferred biennially by the WJS Younger Members' Committee to a young person with no more than five years' work experience after completing full time education.

Previous Winners

2007	D Scaife
2009	R Hammond

Certificate Course Prize is awarded to the student with the best results in the Introduction to Welding and Joining Technology for Students in Materials and Engineering Certificate Course.

Previous Winners

2005	D Scaife	University of Greenwich
2006	S Magowan	Sheffield Hallam University
2007	P Manton	Hartlepool College of Further Education
2008	T Ramage	Sheffield Hallam University

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Your nominations for these prestigious awards need to be submitted by 31 May 2010.

If you would like to know more about The Welding Institute Awards and the nomination process, please e-mail twiawards@twi.co.uk or contact Moire Jarritt, telephone 01223 899000.

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