The 2011 IAgrE Awards Ceremony was held during the Annual Conference held on 10 May 2011 at Cranfield University. Several prestigious awards were made including the Award of Merit and the Award of Honorary Fellowship which are the highest honours that the Institution can bestow.
The IAgrE Award Of Merit
The Award of Merit is made to a person distinguished by their work in agricultural science or engineering or one that has rendered outstanding service to the Institution. The award was made this year to Professor E Wynne Jones OBE. Prof Jones joins a list of distinguished recipients of this award including Brian Finney, Sir Anthony Bamford, Professor Godwin, Dr Helmut Claas, Joe Bamford (Mr JCB) and Tim Chamen.
IAgrE Honorary Fellowship
The Award of Honorary Fellow is made to a person distinguished by their work in agricultural science or engineering or to a distinguished person whom the Institution decides to honour for services rendered to the Institution, or whose association therewith is of benefit to the Institution. An Honorary Fellowship was awarded this year to Richard Robinson
IAgrE Award For Contribution To The Land Based Sector
This Award is made to IAgrE members who have made sustained contributions to the land based sector throughout their career. There were three winners this year:
Michael Dwyer Memorial Prize
The prize is to a mid-career engineer who has made outstanding progress in the agricultural engineering industry. The winner this year was Charles Nicklin of JCB.
Branch Meritorious Service Award
Made to members who have consistently rendered outstanding service to their Branch of the Institution over a number of years, the awards this year went to
Johnson New Holland Trophy Paper Award
This trophy is awarded for the best final year project submitted as part of a First Degree, HND or HNC course in land based engineering. The winner this year is Patrick McInerney of Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland for his final year project. This award was presented at LAMMA 2011 earlier in the year.
Douglas Bomford Paper Award
The Award is offered to the author or authors of a paper which, in the previous calendar year, was published in full in the Institution journals “Landwards” or “Biosystems Engineering”. At least one of the authors must be a member of the Institution. The winner of the Award this year was Dr Malcolm McGechan.
IAgrE Safety Award
This new award has been established to encourage and recognise innovation in safe design or operation of equipment or processes by students studying agricultural engineering or subjects related to the application of engineering and technology to the land based sector. The winner of the Award, which was presented at LAMMA 20011 earlier in the year, was T J Stack of Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland.
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