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 full-time registration at the NDT Annual Conference with three night's 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.
2024 winner: Dr Muhammad Khan
Sponsor: PCN Working Groups
The COMADIT Prize for 2024 is awarded to Dr Muhammad Khan.
Muhammad, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, is the Head of the Centre for Life-cycle Engineering and Management at Cranfield University. With over 23 years of experience, he specialises in damage mechanics and monitoring, modelling for life extension of engineering assets and
non-invasive techniques for asset health diagnostics. Muhammad has worked on projects sponsored by leading world organisations, including General Dynamics, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), QinetiQ, Cummins, Thales and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He has authored a book on machine health diagnostics and published over 150 research articles in international journals and conferences. Muhammad earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 and later received his doctorate in 2008 from the University of Manchester, UK. He is a member of BINDT’s Condition Monitoring Sub-Committee and a member of the Structural Health Monitoring Special Interest Group.
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
The Len Gelman Award
2025 winner: Marek Munko
The 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 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 night's 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
2024 winner: Dr Muhammad Khan
Sponsor: PCN Working Groups
The COMADIT Prize for 2024 is awarded to Dr Muhammad Khan.
Muhammad, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, is the Head of the Centre for Life-cycle Engineering and Management at Cranfield University. With over 23 years of experience, he specialises in damage mechanics and monitoring, modelling for life extension of engineering assets and
non-invasive techniques for asset health diagnostics. Muhammad has worked on projects sponsored by leading world organisations, including General Dynamics, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), QinetiQ, Cummins, Thales and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He has authored a book on machine health diagnostics and published over 150 research articles in international journals and conferences. Muhammad earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 and later received his doctorate in 2008 from the University of Manchester, UK. He is a member of BINDT’s Condition Monitoring Sub-Committee and a member of the Structural Health Monitoring Special Interest Group.
| 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 |
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 £300. 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 £300. 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
2025 winner: Marek Munko
The 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
2024 S Al-Nasser, S Noroozi and A Harvey
2024 winner: Professor Mehdi Behzad
The CM Innovation Award for 2024 is awarded to Professor Mehdi Behzad.
Mehdi is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology,
Iran, which he joined after graduating from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 1994. He developed a machinery maintenance course for undergraduate studies, as well as condition monitoring (CM) and fault diagnosis for postgraduate studies, at this university in the Mechanical Engineering Department for the first time in 1994. Mehdi is the founding director of the Condition Monitoring Center at Sharif University of Technology, where he has chaired the annual Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (CMFD) conference since 2006. During the last 28 years, he has conducted more than 500 condition monitoring and vibration analysis short-term and long-term projects in a variety of industries such as oil, gas, petrochemistry, power plants, steel, cement, copper, wood and paper as CEO of Behravesh Vibration Engineering company. He is developing two artificial intelligence (AI)-based pieces of software for fault analysis in rotating machinery and remaining useful life of ball bearings.
Due to his expertise and record of success, Mehdi is considered a leader in the field of condition monitoring and maintenance engineering. He is a founding member of the Iranian Society of Acoustics and Vibration, the Iran Maintenance Association and the Iranian Society of Non-Destructive Testing. As a founding member of these three societies, he developed the mission of the organisations, focusing on fostering an inclusive environment and facilitating the exchange of ideas among researchers and experts in these fields. Under this objective, he ensured that the organisations fostered collaboration among various industries, research institutions, academic bodies and the government.
Mehdi has published more than 160 journal articles in the area of CM, rotor dynamics and remaining useful life estimation of ball bearings using AI, with many being the most highly cited papers in their year of publication. He was selected as one of the top distinguished scientists of Iran for his joint academic-industrial activities in 2020. He has supervised more than 20 PhD and 40 MSc theses. At the Condition Monitoring Center he has carried out many experiments in order to predict ball bearing failure using vibration and acoustic signals. He is also the course director of an MSc in maintenance and condition monitoring engineering. In addition, Mehdi served as the international advisory member for the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) conferences and also CM conferences in the UK. Furthermore, he is well known as a teacher for vibration analysis Levels 1-3, along with machinery balancing and rotor dynamics in the country.
Mehdi is a prolific researcher in vibration condition monitoring and remaining useful life calculation. He is currently a member of WG6 of the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT), which is preparing the Guide to Qualification and Certification of Personnel for Condition Monitoring, and is also part of the ISCO Management Committee.
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
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.
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
2024 winner: Professor Mehdi Behzad
The CM Innovation Award for 2024 is awarded to Professor Mehdi Behzad.
Mehdi is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology,
Iran, which he joined after graduating from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 1994. He developed a machinery maintenance course for undergraduate studies, as well as condition monitoring (CM) and fault diagnosis for postgraduate studies, at this university in the Mechanical Engineering Department for the first time in 1994. Mehdi is the founding director of the Condition Monitoring Center at Sharif University of Technology, where he has chaired the annual Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (CMFD) conference since 2006. During the last 28 years, he has conducted more than 500 condition monitoring and vibration analysis short-term and long-term projects in a variety of industries such as oil, gas, petrochemistry, power plants, steel, cement, copper, wood and paper as CEO of Behravesh Vibration Engineering company. He is developing two artificial intelligence (AI)-based pieces of software for fault analysis in rotating machinery and remaining useful life of ball bearings.Due to his expertise and record of success, Mehdi is considered a leader in the field of condition monitoring and maintenance engineering. He is a founding member of the Iranian Society of Acoustics and Vibration, the Iran Maintenance Association and the Iranian Society of Non-Destructive Testing. As a founding member of these three societies, he developed the mission of the organisations, focusing on fostering an inclusive environment and facilitating the exchange of ideas among researchers and experts in these fields. Under this objective, he ensured that the organisations fostered collaboration among various industries, research institutions, academic bodies and the government.
Mehdi has published more than 160 journal articles in the area of CM, rotor dynamics and remaining useful life estimation of ball bearings using AI, with many being the most highly cited papers in their year of publication. He was selected as one of the top distinguished scientists of Iran for his joint academic-industrial activities in 2020. He has supervised more than 20 PhD and 40 MSc theses. At the Condition Monitoring Center he has carried out many experiments in order to predict ball bearing failure using vibration and acoustic signals. He is also the course director of an MSc in maintenance and condition monitoring engineering. In addition, Mehdi served as the international advisory member for the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) conferences and also CM conferences in the UK. Furthermore, he is well known as a teacher for vibration analysis Levels 1-3, along with machinery balancing and rotor dynamics in the country.
Mehdi is a prolific researcher in vibration condition monitoring and remaining useful life calculation. He is currently a member of WG6 of the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT), which is preparing the Guide to Qualification and Certification of Personnel for Condition Monitoring, and is also part of the ISCO Management Committee.
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
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.
