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Sustained Achievement Award
The Academy's Sustained
Achievement Award (formally Lifetime Achievement
Award) was first presented in 2005, and
will be awarded to an engineer normally resident in
the UK whose achievements have had a profound impact
upon their engineering discipline. This award
applies particularly to those engineers who have not
been recognized earlier in their careers for reasons
such as latency in the impact of their work or late
disclosure due to national or commercial secrecy.
The call for nominations is now closed. The winner
of the 2010 Award will be announced shortly.
Recipients
2009
Professor Sir Bernard Crossland CBE FREng FRS
Professor Sir Bernard Crossland has received the
award for his contribution to engineering education
research work into high pressure engineering and his
influence in both the UK and Ireland in forming
links with industry and academia in a career
spanning seven decades. During his retirement he has
also made a significant contribution to public
service playing a leading role in high profile
investigations including the Kings Cross Underground
Fire and Ladbroke Grove Rail Disaster.
[2009 News Release]
2008
Dr Adam Neville CBE FREng
Dr Adam Neville CBE FREng, widely respected
world-wide for his expertise on concrete structures,
has received the Sustained Achievement Medal after
devoting nearly 60 years to research and practice in
civil and structural engineering all over the world.
Dr Neville's research on concrete as a material is
world renowned. His first book, Properties of
Concrete, published in 1963, has been translated
into 13 languages and has sold over half a million
copies. In many parts of the world this book is
known familiarly as "Neville's concrete bible".
[2008 News Release]
2007
Professor Emeritus William Johnson FREng FRS
Professor William Johnson, formerly of the
University of Cambridge, has received the 2007
Sustained Achievement Medal in recognition of the
exceptional breadth of his engineering expertise and
his ground-breaking research on how metals behave in
manufacturing processes. He has solved many problems
for industry, from turbine blades for jet engines to
assessing the crashworthiness of vehicles and has
written several books on how bombs bounce and
ricochet.
[2007 News Release]
2006
Professor Peter Kirstein CBE FREng
Professor Peter Kirstein CBE FREng of University
College London has been awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Medal from The Royal Academy of
Engineering for his exceptional contribution to the
development of the Global Internet from its earliest
inception as an academic research project throughout
its progression into its current status as a basic
infrastructure of academia, industry and society.
[2006 News Release]
2005
Dr Philip Woodward
Retired Deputy Chief Scientific Officer
The Royal Academy of Engineering awarded its first
ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Retired Deputy
Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Philip Woodward,
recognising him as an outstanding pioneer of Radar
and for his work in precision mechanical horology.
[2005 News Release]
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