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Sustained Achievement Award
The Academy's Sustained
Achievement Award (formerly Lifetime Achievement
Award) was first presented in 2005, and will be
awarded to an engineer, normally resident in the UK,
whose sustained achievements over a number of
projects have had a profound impact upon their
engineering discipline.
The call for nominations for the
2013 award has now closed. The winner(s) will be
announced in 2013.
Recipients
2012
Professor Stephen Salter
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh.
Awarded in recognition of his career as an engineer
which holds many notable achievements including
'Salter's Duck' and his pioneering work in the
desalination of sea water.
[2012 News Release]
2011
Professor Dracos Vassalos
Professor of Maritime Safety at the University of
Strathclyde and Director of the Ship Stability
Research Centre (SSRC)
Professor Vassalos catalysed the development of
goal-based legislation in the maritime industry and
the utilisation of first principles safety
performance assessment tools to foster
cost-effective safety improvement. He set up The
Ship Safety Research Centre, SSRC is the leading
light on maritime safety and focusses on active
international collaboration. Since its inception,
SSRC has instigated and coordinated related
research, and supported the development of all major
legislation on maritime safety.
[2011 News Release]
2010
Alan Powderham FREng
Alan Powderham received the Sustained Achievement
Award in recognition of his career spanning over 40
years, and for bringing engineering excellence to
numerous projects by setting new industry benchmarks
in foundation engineering.
[2010 News Release]
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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