CM Awards
Institute Awards
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 full-time registration at the NDT Annual Conference with three nights' accommodation, a certificate and 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 of named research workers.
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
2025 winner: Geoff Walker
Sponsor: PCN Working Groups
The COMADIT Prize for 2025 is awarded to Geoff Walker.
Geoff, Founder and Director of Faraday Predictive Ltd, is a Chartered Engineer focused on helping organisations optimise their maintenance strategy, with an emphasis on the technologies required to deliver condition-based maintenance.
After reading engineering at St John’s College, Cambridge, Geoff’s experience includes over a decade in a range of engineering management roles in the chemical industry, over a decade leading the Physical Asset Management consulting practice for PwC and the last two decades working on the development and application of automated fault diagnostic systems.
As one of the founders of Faraday Predictive, Geoff’s present focus is on electrical signature analysis (ESA), smart systems using the electric motor driving the equipment, or the generator being driven by equipment, as a sensor, using subtle changes in the relationship between current and voltage to diagnose and predict a range of mechanical and operational problems as well as electrical ones.
Geoff has recently been appointed as Chairman of TC 108/SC 5, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee developing international standards for condition monitoring, is Chairman of the corresponding British Standards Institution (BSI) mirror committee GME/21/7 and has chaired the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) working group on electrical condition monitoring.
| 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 |
| 2022 | Tim Stevenson | PCN Working Groups |
| 2023 | Honor Powrie FREng FInstP | PCN Working Groups |
| 2024 | Dr Muhammad Khan | PCN Working Groups |
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
The Len Gelman Award
Award criteria
Details of the award: The award will be in the form of a certificate backed by a cash sum of £300.
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
2025 winner: Marek MunkoThe Len Gelman Award for 2025 is presented to Marek Munko from the University of Edinburgh, UK, for their paper, titled: 'Towards a digital twin of a proprietary hydraulic system: energy consumption optimisation'.
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
2023 Z Tian, S Wang, D Merk and R Wood
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, £300 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
The CM Innovation Award was not awarded in 2025.
Past winners:
2017 Dr Ruhul Amin
2018 Dr Jérôme Lacaille
2019 Dr Zhike Peng
2020 Robert Cutler
2021 Professor Dr Hamid Reza Karimi
2022 Professor Dr Georg Herborg and Dr Christian Svendsen
2023 Tat-Hean Gan
