CM Innovation Award
Open award for members and non-members, CM Award
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
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