CM Awards
Institute Awards
The Institute presents the following CM awards:
The COMADIT Prize
Details of the award: The prize will be in the form of a certificate and will be backed by a cash sum of £350. Invitations to sponsor the prize will be issued each year to all Corporate members of the Institute. When more than one organisation desires to be the sponsor, the selection shall be by lot. The sponsor’s name will be prominently mentioned in all publicity associated with the prize for the year in question and will be featured on the Honours Board at the Institute HQ.
Eligibility: The prize may be won by any research worker or group.
This is intended to recognise contributions over a period of at least 5-10 years.
The proposer of the award should be a voting member of the Institute. If they are not, they will need to ensure the application is endorsed by an Institute voting member.
Frequency: The prize will be awarded annually and will only be issued if suitable nominations are received.
Nomination arrangements: Nominations should be submitted by email to: karen.cambridge@bindt.org
Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the CM Sub-Committee. If there is only one nomination, then the CM Sub-Committee should vote to confirm whether the nomination is eligible and, if so, to approve the award.
If there is more than one nomination, then the entries should be sent for judging by a panel set up for the purpose. Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner.
Awarding arrangements:
The prize will normally be presented at the CM Annual Conference during the Conference Dinner by the Chair of the CM Sub-Committee.
Committee: CM Sub-Committee.
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
2022 winner: Tim Stevenson
Sponsor: PCN Working Groups
The COMADIT Prize for 2022 is awarded to Tim Stevenson, who holds multiple patents and is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications on piezoelectric and ultrasonic sensors for extreme environments. He has acted as industrial supervisor for several doctoral candidates in the field of piezoelectric materials and ultrasonics and has held visiting positions with the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. In 2019, he was made Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and currently sits on BINDT’s Condition Monitoring Sub-Committee.
Tim is Co-founder and Managing Director of Ionix Advanced Technologies, which has grown to become a world leader in ultrasonic condition and process
monitoring.
Graduating from the University of Leeds with an MEng in materials science and completing a PhD in 2010, Tim’s thesis was on the development of a novel high-performance piezoelectric (HPZ) ceramic capable of operating in extreme environments, such as those involving high temperatures and radiation, and offering unique properties such as high fracture toughness and magnetoelectric behaviour.
In 2011, Tim co-founded Ionix with the aim of commercialising the piezoelectric ceramics and developing condition monitoring (CM) sensor systems around it, which quickly found applications in ultrasonic dryness monitoring of industrial steam lines. He received a Gold Award and the title of ‘Early Research Career Engineer’ at the Westminster SET for Britain Awards for the impact of his research.
Tim and his team at Ionix incorporated the HPZ material into an innovative, modular, intrinsically safe high-temperature ultrasonic platform and, since 2015, a primary focus for this has been high-resolution remaining wall thickness measurements. HotSense has now been integrated into the fabric of energy infrastructure on six continents for on-stream corrosion monitoring of downstream refinery, petrochemical and nuclear plant piping circuits and pressure vessels up to 550°C and in hazardous or potentially explosive atmospheres.
The HotSense platform has subsequently been expanded to enable flare gas monitoring, clamp on flow, molten salt health sensing, crack growth monitoring and acoustic emission-based equipment and structural health monitoring across a plethora of industries, including the renewable energy, aerospace and automotive sectors.
As such, Tim is now globally recognised as a technical authority and thought leader in extreme environment ultrasonic condition monitoring, contributing to technical committees and academic panels in North America, the UK and Europe.
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
The Len Gelman Award
2023 winners: Z Tian, S Wang, D Merk and R Wood
The Len Gelman Award for 2023 is presented to Z Tian, S Wang and R Wood, from the University of Southampton, UK, and D Merk, from Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co KG, Germany, for their paper, titled: 'Condition monitoring of pitting evolution using multiple sensing'.
Past winners:
2008 D Clifton
2009 P McGetrick
2010 S L Chen
2011 Dr R Jones
2012 M Palo
2013 O Cardona-Morales
2014 G Cablea
2015 G Song
2016 M A A Ismail / S Kolbe
2017 Mr V Jantara Junior
2018 Yuandong Xu, Fengshou Gu, Andrew D Ball and Jingzhou Fei
2019 K Kalista, J Liska, J Jakl and V Vasicek
2020 No Award
2021 G Iarriccio and O Kennedy Aimiyekagbon
2022 J Liska, J Jakl and S Kunkel
2022 winners: Professor Dr Georg Herborg and Dr Christian Svendsen
The CM Innovation Award for 2022 is awarded to Professor Dr Georg Herborg and Dr Christian Svendsen.
Georg Herborg completed a PhD in physics with Aarhus University, Denmark. Following that, he worked for approximately ten years in the wind industry as Global Director of Tooling for wind turbine blade manufacturing. Since 2017, Georg has held the role of Director of Innovation at Danfoss High Pressure Pumps, with accountability for all new technology scouting and maturation, research and development (R&D) activities and new product developments.
Christian Svendsen completed a PhD in molecular quantum physics with the University of Southern Denmark within the field of scattering and absorption studies of molecules. Following that, he initially worked as a university lecturer and for the last 24 years has worked in industry, covering a wide range of technical areas. His main focus has been on the theoretical, numeric
al and experimental studies of high-end hermetic compressors and positive displacement pumps.
Since 2013, Christian has, as a Senior Technology Specialist, been leading the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and vibroacoustic studies at Danfoss High Pressure Pumps, as well as the execution of complex simulation model validation measurements. As such, Christian is a key person within the strategic efforts to create an effective and value-adding condition monitoring solution for the company’s product portfolio.
Past winners:
2017 Dr Ruhul Amin
2018 Dr Jérôme Lacaille
2019 Dr Zhike Peng
2020 Robert Cutler
2021 Professor Dr Hamid Reza Karimi
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.
The COMADIT Prize
Award criteria
Purpose: The COMADIT Prize is awarded annually by the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing to recognise a significant contribution over a period of at least 5-10 years through research and development in any branch of condition monitoring to the benefit of industry or society.
Details of the award: The prize will be in the form of a certificate and will be backed by a cash sum of £350. Invitations to sponsor the prize will be issued each year to all Corporate members of the Institute. When more than one organisation desires to be the sponsor, the selection shall be by lot. The sponsor’s name will be prominently mentioned in all publicity associated with the prize for the year in question and will be featured on the Honours Board at the Institute HQ.
Eligibility: The prize may be won by any research worker or group.
This is intended to recognise contributions over a period of at least 5-10 years.
The proposer of the award should be a voting member of the Institute. If they are not, they will need to ensure the application is endorsed by an Institute voting member.
Frequency: The prize will be awarded annually and will only be issued if suitable nominations are received.
Nomination arrangements: Nominations should be submitted by email to: karen.cambridge@bindt.org
Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the CM Sub-Committee. If there is only one nomination, then the CM Sub-Committee should vote to confirm whether the nomination is eligible and, if so, to approve the award.
If there is more than one nomination, then the entries should be sent for judging by a panel set up for the purpose. Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner.
Awarding arrangements:
The prize will normally be presented at the CM Annual Conference during the Conference Dinner by the Chair of the CM Sub-Committee.
Committee: CM Sub-Committee.
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
Winners
2022 winner: Tim Stevenson
Sponsor: PCN Working Groups
The COMADIT Prize for 2022 is awarded to Tim Stevenson, who holds multiple patents and is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications on piezoelectric and ultrasonic sensors for extreme environments. He has acted as industrial supervisor for several doctoral candidates in the field of piezoelectric materials and ultrasonics and has held visiting positions with the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. In 2019, he was made Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and currently sits on BINDT’s Condition Monitoring Sub-Committee.Tim is Co-founder and Managing Director of Ionix Advanced Technologies, which has grown to become a world leader in ultrasonic condition and process
monitoring.
Graduating from the University of Leeds with an MEng in materials science and completing a PhD in 2010, Tim’s thesis was on the development of a novel high-performance piezoelectric (HPZ) ceramic capable of operating in extreme environments, such as those involving high temperatures and radiation, and offering unique properties such as high fracture toughness and magnetoelectric behaviour.
In 2011, Tim co-founded Ionix with the aim of commercialising the piezoelectric ceramics and developing condition monitoring (CM) sensor systems around it, which quickly found applications in ultrasonic dryness monitoring of industrial steam lines. He received a Gold Award and the title of ‘Early Research Career Engineer’ at the Westminster SET for Britain Awards for the impact of his research.
Tim and his team at Ionix incorporated the HPZ material into an innovative, modular, intrinsically safe high-temperature ultrasonic platform and, since 2015, a primary focus for this has been high-resolution remaining wall thickness measurements. HotSense has now been integrated into the fabric of energy infrastructure on six continents for on-stream corrosion monitoring of downstream refinery, petrochemical and nuclear plant piping circuits and pressure vessels up to 550°C and in hazardous or potentially explosive atmospheres.
The HotSense platform has subsequently been expanded to enable flare gas monitoring, clamp on flow, molten salt health sensing, crack growth monitoring and acoustic emission-based equipment and structural health monitoring across a plethora of industries, including the renewable energy, aerospace and automotive sectors.
As such, Tim is now globally recognised as a technical authority and thought leader in extreme environment ultrasonic condition monitoring, contributing to technical committees and academic panels in North America, the UK and Europe.
| Past winners: | Sponsors: | |
| 2008 | Prof A D Hope | Laser Optical Engineering Ltd |
| 2009 | Dr T Holroyd | J R Technology and RMS Ltd |
| 2010 | Mr C Pearson | Staffordshire University |
| 2011 | Dr M Walters | RMS Ltd |
| 2012 | Mr S Mills and Mr D Whittle | SpectraQuest Inc |
| 2013 | Mr S Greenfield and Mr D Shorten | Ardrox Engineering |
| 2014 | Dr J Twiddle and Dr S Muthuraman | PCN Working Groups |
| 2015 | Mr K Seaborne and Dr J H Yebra | PCN Working Groups |
| 2016 | Professor Len Gelman | PCN Working Groups |
| 2017 | Professor Ling Wang | PCN Working Groups |
| 2018 | Professor Andrew Starr | PCN Working Groups |
| 2019 | Professor Siamak Noroozi | PCN Working Groups |
| 2020 | Professor Andrew Ball | PCN Working Groups |
| 2021 | David Manning-Ohren | PCN Working Groups |
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
The Len Gelman Award
Award criteria
Purpose: The award is for the best paper published in the Proceedings of the CM Annual Conference by a person in the early stages of his/her career or within the first five years of full-time employment (subject to a satisfactory oral presentation). The person concerned (or one of them, if there is more than one author who qualifies) must also present the paper in person at the Conference and, at the discretion of the session chair, answer any questions from the audience.
Details of the award: The award will be in the form of a certificate backed by a cash sum of £250. In addition, free membership of the Institute at an appropriate grade will be given to the winner for one year.
Eligibility: The author of the paper must either be a student or within the first five years of full-time employment. He/she need not be a member of the Institute. In the case of multiple authorship, the early career-stage criterion must be satisfied by the first or second named author. If other authors also satisfy the criterion, the cash award is to be shared between all those authors satisfying the criterion, with each receiving a certificate. The free membership for one year is for the presenting author only.
Frequency: It is anticipated the award will be made annually.
Nomination arrangements: The author of an abstract and full paper for the event can indicate they wish to be considered when submitting online.
Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner, subject to a satisfactory oral presentation.
Awarding arrangements: The award will be presented annually at the CM Annual Conference Closing Ceremony.
Committee: CM Sub-Committee.
Details of the award: The award will be in the form of a certificate backed by a cash sum of £250. In addition, free membership of the Institute at an appropriate grade will be given to the winner for one year.
Eligibility: The author of the paper must either be a student or within the first five years of full-time employment. He/she need not be a member of the Institute. In the case of multiple authorship, the early career-stage criterion must be satisfied by the first or second named author. If other authors also satisfy the criterion, the cash award is to be shared between all those authors satisfying the criterion, with each receiving a certificate. The free membership for one year is for the presenting author only.
Frequency: It is anticipated the award will be made annually.
Nomination arrangements: The author of an abstract and full paper for the event can indicate they wish to be considered when submitting online.
Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner, subject to a satisfactory oral presentation.
Awarding arrangements: The award will be presented annually at the CM Annual Conference Closing Ceremony.
Committee: CM Sub-Committee.
Winners
2023 winners: Z Tian, S Wang, D Merk and R Wood
The Len Gelman Award for 2023 is presented to Z Tian, S Wang and R Wood, from the University of Southampton, UK, and D Merk, from Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co KG, Germany, for their paper, titled: 'Condition monitoring of pitting evolution using multiple sensing'.
Past winners:
2008 D Clifton
2009 P McGetrick
2010 S L Chen
2011 Dr R Jones
2012 M Palo
2013 O Cardona-Morales
2014 G Cablea
2015 G Song
2016 M A A Ismail / S Kolbe
2017 Mr V Jantara Junior
2018 Yuandong Xu, Fengshou Gu, Andrew D Ball and Jingzhou Fei
2019 K Kalista, J Liska, J Jakl and V Vasicek
2020 No Award
2021 G Iarriccio and O Kennedy Aimiyekagbon
2022 J Liska, J Jakl and S Kunkel
The CM Innovation Award
Award criteria
Purpose: For a significant contribution to technology innovation, technology transfer or technology strategy in the field of condition monitoring (CM) over a period of at least 5-10 years.
Details of the award: A certificate, £250 cash and an invitation to the CM Annual Conference Dinner, with free registration for the day and one night’s accommodation for either the individual winner or, in the case of a group winner, a nominated representative.
Eligibility: Nominees can be individuals or groups who have made a significant contribution to CM technology through R&D technology transfer into industry or who have developed a strategy that has led to technology development and exploitation.
This is intended to recognise contributions over a period of at least 5-10 years.
The proposer of the award should be a voting member of the Institute. If they are not, they will need to ensure the application is endorsed by an Institute voting member.
Frequency: It is anticipated that one award will be made annually providing suitable nominations are received.
Nomination arrangements: Nominations should be submitted by email to: karen.cambridge@bindt.org
Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the CM Sub-Committee. If there is only one nomination, then the CM Sub-Committee should vote to confirm whether the nomination is eligible and, if so, to approve the award.
If there is more than one nomination, then the entries should be sent for judging by a panel set up for the purpose. Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Sub-Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner.
Awarding arrangements: The certificate and cash prize will be presented to the winner at the CM Annual Conference during the Conference Dinner by the Chair of the CM Sub-Committee.
Committee: CM Sub-Committee.
Winners
2022 winners: Professor Dr Georg Herborg and Dr Christian Svendsen
The CM Innovation Award for 2022 is awarded to Professor Dr Georg Herborg and Dr Christian Svendsen.
Georg Herborg completed a PhD in physics with Aarhus University, Denmark. Following that, he worked for approximately ten years in the wind industry as Global Director of Tooling for wind turbine blade manufacturing. Since 2017, Georg has held the role of Director of Innovation at Danfoss High Pressure Pumps, with accountability for all new technology scouting and maturation, research and development (R&D) activities and new product developments.Christian Svendsen completed a PhD in molecular quantum physics with the University of Southern Denmark within the field of scattering and absorption studies of molecules. Following that, he initially worked as a university lecturer and for the last 24 years has worked in industry, covering a wide range of technical areas. His main focus has been on the theoretical, numeric
al and experimental studies of high-end hermetic compressors and positive displacement pumps. Since 2013, Christian has, as a Senior Technology Specialist, been leading the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and vibroacoustic studies at Danfoss High Pressure Pumps, as well as the execution of complex simulation model validation measurements. As such, Christian is a key person within the strategic efforts to create an effective and value-adding condition monitoring solution for the company’s product portfolio.
Past winners:
2017 Dr Ruhul Amin
2018 Dr Jérôme Lacaille
2019 Dr Zhike Peng
2020 Robert Cutler
2021 Professor Dr Hamid Reza Karimi
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.
