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.

Winners

The COMADIT Prize for 2023 is awarded to Honor Powrie FREng FInstP, who has worked in the aerospace industry for over 30 years and is renowned for her expertise in machinery health monitoring and asset management.

Since 2007, Honor has worked for General Electric (GE), where she is a Senior Director and currently leads GE Aerospace’s UK Data Science group, delivering innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions for managing aviation assets. Prior to GE, Honor held positions with Smiths Aerospace, the University of Southampton spin-out company Stewart Hughes Ltd and the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough (now QinetiQ). She has published more than 60 papers on condition monitoring (CM) and related topics.

Honor has been involved in a diverse range of technical programmes, from deploying bespoke engine debris monitoring sensors for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to qualifying the landing gear for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. She has also developed CM solutions for other engineering domains, including wind turbines, land vehicles, industrial power gas turbines and oil & gas infrastructure. Her areas of expertise include systems, hardware and software engineering; product development and integration; and machinery health, usage and management (HUMS) technologies, including sensing, integration, signal processing, big data and advanced analytics. Honor has pioneered the application of AI/ML for tackling complex CM problems, as well as prognostics and health management (PHM) solutions for asset usage and management. Her roles have ranged from research and development (R&D), applications, technology and product development, customer facing and programme management to group leader and strategist.

Honor also developed electrostatic monitoring technology for lubrication systems and established a long-term research partnership with the University of Southampton. Since 2011, Honor has been a Visiting Professor at the National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS), where she is currently Honorary Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Visiting Professor in Data and Analytics, Asset Condition Monitoring and Management. In her role as Visiting Professor, Honor performs industrial liaison activities with the University of Southampton, including joint research programmes, industrial consultation, PhD and undergraduate project supervision, delivering guest lectures and mentoring.

Honor is a Fellow of RAEng and the Institute of Physics (IOP). She is Deputy Chair of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Tribology Group Committee (TGC) and a member of the IOP TGC. 

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