CM Innovation 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

Tat-Hean has a first-class honours degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Nottingham, an MSc in advanced mechanical engineering with distinction and a PhD in engineering specialising in advanced ultrasonic imaging, both from the University of Warwick, and an Executive MBA from the University of Birmingham. He has worked as an academic and in industry for many years, has published more than 100 papers and contributed to several books on non-destructive testing (NDT) and condition monitoring (CM). Tat-Hean obtained CEng, EurIng and IntPE (UK) status and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT), the International Society of Condition Monitoring (ISCM), the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) and The Welding Institute. He is also Professor of Structural Integrity in the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences at Brunel University
London.

As well as being TWI’s Director of Membership, Innovation and Global Operations, Tat-Hean led the creation of the £1.2 billion TWI Innovation Network, which comprises an international network of research and technology organisations (RTOs), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), large enterprises and universities. He is Director of the TWI-based National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC), the UK’s first industry-led postgraduate education and research centre in structural integrity, and Director of the Brunel Innovation Centre (BIC), a partnership between Brunel University London and TWI. His research interests include NDT, CM, signal and image processing, sensors development, artificial intelligence, digital twins and asset integrity management.