Awards
Engineers Australia plays an important role in promoting engineering excellence and the contribution engineering makes to the community. Our award programs seek to identify, recognise and reward outstanding achievement, eminence in the practice of engineering, and conspicuous service to the profession.
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About this Award
These annual awards provide a showcase for outstanding achievement in the field of Chemical Engineering. The Engineers Australia Chemical College, IChemE in Australia, SCENZ and RACI, in partnership with corporate sponsors, have instituted these awards to encourage and recognise excellence and to highlight the contribution made by Australian and New Zealand Chemical Engineers to the community. These awards are presented each year at the Chemeca Conference dinner.
Nominations for the Chemical awards of excellence have now closed and will reopen in 2012.
Information on the awards and details on the nomination process can be found on the Australia and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineering website at www.anzfche.org
About this Award
The John A Brodie Medal is named in honour of Mr J A Brodie, who was Chief Engineer with Union Carbide. He established the reputation as a leading industrial innovator in Australia, having been responsible for the design and construction of polyethylene film extrusion units, the manufacture of bakelite and a continuous crystallization plant known as the Brodie Purifier. He won several international awards for his inventions, and he also won the Prince Philip Award for Australian Design. Mr Brodie was a Councillor of the Institution from 1967 to 1971.
John A Brodie Medal is awarded by the Institution of Engineers, Australia for the best paper in the discipline of chemical engineering presented at the Chemeca Conference, at any other conference sponsored by the Institution of Engineers, at a Branch meeting of the Institution or published in the journal of Chemical Engineering in Australia during the past year.
This award is presented in conjunction with the annual Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineering at the Chemeca Conference dinner.
Guidelines
2009 Medal Winners
The 2009 John A. Brodie Medal was presented to Gregory B K Newton, a chemical and materials engineering student, and Associate Professor Brent Young of The University of Auckland, New Zealand. For paper titled: "Liquid Slugging Control for Oil and Gas Pipeline Riser Systems"
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