Awards
2009 Snowy Hydro Young Professional Engineer of the Year - Adrian Clark - Sydney
The Snowy Hydro Young Professional Engineer of the Year acknowledges and rewards young professional engineers who have reached and high level of achievement and involvement in engineering and community affairs.
Adrian Clark is responsible for leading the team developing and implementing the EnergyAustralia smart grid program. This program is a major transformation in the electricity industry, whereby intelligent sensors and analytics are being overlayed across the end to end electricity grid to enable it to become more reliable, efficient, customer friendly and to accommodate renewable energy generation.
Adrian is well known both locally and internationally as an expert in the emerging field of intelligent networks. Prior to this role Adrian was instrumental in the development of EnergyAustralia's telecommunications strategy and the establishment of major programs to build and operate a utilities-specific next generation telecommunications network.
Young Professional Engineer of the Year 2009 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards Entrants
| Michael Thompson | GradIEAust | Northern Division |
Adrian Clark |
| Sydney Division |
Michael Scott | MIEAust CPEng | South Australia Division |
Jerome Bowen | MIEAust | Western Australia Division |
Alesha Printz | GradIEAust | Victoria Division |
Liz Schofield | MIEAust | Queensland Division |
Anntonette Joseph | GradIEAust | Canberra Division |
Nicholas Bates | GradIEAust | Newcastle Division |
General Awards
Each year Engineers Australia, in partnership with YEA, presents three national awards for young engineers:
- Young Professional Engineer of the Year
- Young Engineering Technologist of the Year
- Young Engineering Associate of the Year
There are also a number of awards sponsored by other organisations available to Engineers under the age of 35 including:
About the Awards
The awards apply to practising engineers under the age of 35. They seek to acknowledge and reward young professional engineers and young engineering technologists and officers 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 media.
Each Division of Engineers Australia, in partnership with the local YEA group may run its own competitions to nominate a single finalist from each occupational category for the national award.
The awards are presented at state and territory levels by the divisions of Engineers Australia. Winners go on to vie for the national title. The national winner is announced at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA), which is usually held in Canberra during November.
For full details about the awards available in your area and how to enter, please visit the Awards section of the website.
