The WA Engineering Excellence Awards program encourages and celebrates engineering excellence by identifying, recognising and promoting excellence in the science and practice of engineering.

The awards also provide peer recognition of engineering excellence, raise the profile of the profession and of local engineering, and highlight the contribution of engineers to the economy, to the community and to the environment.

Download the 2010 Call for Entries Flyer(PDF 714KB)

Download the 2010 Entry Requirements and Guidelines(PDF 286KB)

Young Engineers Public Presentation Competition

Have something to say? Put your presentation skills to the test and win $2,000!

If you are a Young Engineer, enjoy public speaking, and have something to say on a topic related to engineering you should consider entering the O. F. Blakey Public Presentation Competition.

Entrants are required to submit an abstract on a technical or non-technical topic of their choice and be available to make a presentation in November.

Finalists will then be asked to present at the Engineers Australia WA Division AGM Dinner, with the winner receiving a $2,000 Cash Prize and the O. F. Blakey Medal.

Entries are now closed and will re-open in 2010.

• Read the O. F. Blakey Award Nomination Guidelines

Congratulations to Jerome Bowen GradIEAust, 2009 WA Young Professional Engineer of the Year.

The WA Young Engineer of the Year is awarded by WA young Engineers Australia group and is open to the following categories: 

• Young Professional Engineer of the Year
• Young Engineering Technologist of the Year
• Young Engineering Officer of the Year

Entrants must be practising engineers under the age of 35. The awards seek to acknowledge and reward young engineers who have:

• realised competence and significant achievement in community affairs
• a demonstrated understanding of the role and purpose of the engineering profession in society;
• proficiency in the use of communication skills in engineering projects;
  
• effective communication with public and the media.

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Congratulations to Bob Wark FIEAust CPEng, 2009 WA Professional Engineer of the Year.

This award is made to a practising engineer, judged under the following criteria:

• realised competence and significant achievement in community affairs;
• a demonstrated understanding of the role and purpose of the engineering profession in society;
• proficiency in the use of communication skills in engineering projects;
• effective communication with public  and the media.

Charles Warman Medal

First awarded in 1992, for the Best final year student at Western Australian School of Mines.

Charles Warman is a distinguished graduate and lecturer of the School of Mines. He started a small "pump" company in Kalgoorlie, which has now grown into an international company recognised world wide for the highest quality in its field. Charles Warman has been awarded honorary doctorates from Curtin University and University of NSW, and was made an Honorary Fellow of IEAust in 1985.

• View a list of past medal recipients
  

Digby Leach Medal

First awarded in 1968 for the Best academic record and qualities of leadership at Curtin University of Technology.

Named after Mr JD Leach who spent his entire professional career as a highway engineer in WA. He was Commissioner for Main Roads between 1952 and 1964 and directed a major statewide road program, which opened, up vast areas of WA for development. He was an Institution Councillor, a Chairman of the former Perth Division and National President of IEAust in 1964.

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Harry Appleby Medal

First awarded in 1994 for the Best academic record in an associate diploma of engineering at TAFE.

Harry Appleby joined the Public Works Department in 1951 as a cadet draftsman. In 1960, as a Senior Engineering Draftsman he began a 28 year involvement with the investigation, design and construction of storage dams in WA.

Harry was instrumental in founding the Association of Diploma Engineers, in WA, which was later to become the Australian Institute of Engineering Associates. He served as President of both. Harry is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Engineering Associates.

• View a list of past medal recipients 
  

IEAust - Murdoch University Medal

First awarded in 1999 for the Best academic achievement, qualities of leadership and interest in the Institution

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John Renner Medal

First awarded in 1996. For: Best academic achievement, qualities of leadership and interest in the Institution.

Named after Professor John Renner, Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering at Edith Cowan University. John Renner was responsible for the creation of the ECU Centre for Very High Speed Microelectronic Systems and a partnership with the CRC for Broadband Telecommunications and Networking.

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Russell Dumas Medal

First awarded in 1970 for the Best academic performance in the final year at UWA.

Named after Sir Russell Dumas. He occupied the position of Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Water Supply Department from 1934 to 1941. He was Director of Public Works from 1941 to 1951 and Co-ordinator of Works and Industrial Development in WA from 1951 to 1953.

Sir Russell was very active in Institution affairs, a Councillor, Chairman of the former Perth Division and winner of several IEAust awards. He was made an Honorary Fellow in 1966.

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About this Award

The Engineers Australia WA Division Award for Excellence in Teaching recognises and celebrates an individual secondary school teacher who has demonstrated excellence in applying the principles of engineering in the class room, enhancing the learning experiences of their students and increasing the community awareness of the value of engineering to society.

2009 Winner

Darren Hamley, a science teacher from Willetton Senior High School, has won the inaugural Engineers Australia Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Darren has been teaching physics and lower school science in WA for the past 26 years, and it was his unique approach to inspiring his students that impressed the judges.

As winner of the Engineers Australia Award for Excellence in Teaching, Darren receives a cash prize of $5,000 as well as $5,000 towards an engineering related project at his school.