The Ron Halmshaw Award
Open award for members and non-members, Publications Award
Award criteria
Purpose: The Ron Halmshaw Award is awarded for the best paper published in Insight in the preceding year, on any aspect of industrial radiography or radiology.
Details of the award: The prize is in the form of a certificate, a fixed award sum (£350) by cash from the Ron Halmshaw Fund and an invitation to the NDT Annual Conference Dinner with one night's accommodation. (In the case of non-members, part of the prize would be one year's membership.)
Eligibility: Anyone who has published a radiography or radiology paper in Insight will be considered.
Frequency: Yearly, if a suitable candidate is deemed.
Nomination arrangements: Automatic. All members of the Institute’s NDT Sub-Committee will be invited to submit nominations for the award.
Entries: Entries submitted (on a form to be made available by the Institute) will be sent to the Secretary of the Institute.
Awarding arrangements: In January each year, a memo is issued to the judging panel, containing voting instructions, marking sheet, shortlist of name(s), paper title, issue, month and page number and a voting form embossed with the Institute seal. The deadline for return to the Secretariat is 31 March. A judging panel of three is appointed by the NDT Sub-Committee.
In the interest of achieving fair, bias-free results, a system is operated that requires each panel member (any listed authors excepted) to vote anonymously to the Awards Secretary, who is responsible for totalling up the points awarded and notifying the winner to the Secretary.
Publicity: The award will be fully reported in Institute publications and the Secretariat will issue details in a press release to the technical and engineering institutional press.
Presentation: The prize will normally be presented at the NDT Annual Conference, though another appropriate Institute event may be chosen if necessary.
Committee: NDT Sub-Committee.
Winners
2024 winners: Dr Shant Kenderian, Dr Joseph (Toby) Case, Paul M Adams and Anita Gregorian
The 2024 winners are Dr Shant Kenderian, Dr Joseph (Toby) Case, Paul M Adams and Anita Gregorian for their paper, titled: ‘Contrast-based notch-to-crack transfer function for digital radiography’, which appeared in Insight, Vol 66, No 7, pp 400-408,
Dr Shant Kenderian received his PhD in materials science and engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002. His studies were focused on advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) methods for materials characterisation, under the tutelage of the late Professor Robert E Green, Jr, and Dr Boro Djordjevic. Shant later joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and The Aerospace Corporation, which provides oversight for the space programme for the US government. Shant is very active with the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and Academia NDT International, collaborating with sister societies. He has authored more than 50 journal papers and conference proceedings and 75 technical reports. He has received multiple awards and recognitions from The Aerospace Corporation, NASA, Lockheed Martin, ASNT, the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT), the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Indian Society for Non-destructive Testing (ISNT) and now the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT).
Dr Joseph (Toby) Case received his PhD in EE in 2013 from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) with an emphasis in microwave and millimetre wave imaging at the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl) with Dr Reza Zoughi as his advisor. He is currently a member of the technical staff at The Aerospace Corporation since 2014. He performs research in the Physical Sciences Laboratory in the field of non-destructive testing for X-ray, ultrasound and more. He specialises in numerical methods, non-uniform sampling, signal and image processing and reconstruction techniques. He has co-authored over 75 journal and conference publications.
Paul M Adams received a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Science degree from the University at Albany (New York) and the University of Southern California, respectively. He has been employed at The Aerospace Corporation for 46 years, specialising in spectroscopy and microscopy of materials and X-ray radiographic inspections. He is an ASNT Level 3 radiographer.
Anita Gregorian holds a master’s degree in materials engineering from California State University, Northridge. She is a member of the technical staff at The Aerospace Corporation, where she conducts research in the Physical Sciences Laboratory. Her focus is on non-destructive testing methods such as ultrasound, radiography and more. She currently serves on the
Board of Directors for ASNT.
Past winners:
1995 J-E Holmström
1996 Dr E A Birt
1997 A B Wooldridge, Dr R K Chapman, Dr G A Georgiou, I Munns and G S Woodcock
1998 Dr S Ekinci, N Bas, M Aksu, A Yıldırım, M Bingöldag, T Kurtcebe, M Dogruöz, S Sarıçam and N Yılmaz
1999 A McNulty, J McNab and W K J Greenwood
2000 P R Vaidya
2001 R R da Silva, M H S Siqueira, L P Calôba and J M A Rebello
2002 A G Vincent, V Rebuffel, R Guillemaud, L Gerfault and P Y Coulon
2003 Dr G A Georgiou and Mr C R A Schneider
2004 S Smalley and G Wilson
2005 D Mery, D Hahn and N Hitschfeld
2006 Dr G-R Jaenisch, C Bellon, U Samadurau, M E Zhukovskiy and S V Podoliako
2007 V Rebuffel and J-M Dinten
2008 S F Burch and B A Stow
2009 Q Shen, J Gao and C Li
2010 K Arunmutha, P Arun Kumar, T Saravanan, J Philip, T Jayakumar and B Raj
2011 Dr S F Burch
2012 V Riffo and D Mery / J Guo, L Zeng, B Li and W Yu
2013 X Zhao, J-J Hu, T Yang and F Wang
2014 W Gao and Y H Hu
2015 Ge Lijing, Li Linsheng, Xie Jialong and Lin Guoxiang
2016 Changying Dang, Jianmin Gao, Zhao Wang, Yulin Xiao and Yalin Zhao
2017 Domingo Mery, Vladimir Riffo, Irene Zuccar and Christian Pieringer
2018 Stefano Ridolfi
2019 Johann Kastner, Christian Gusenbauer, Bernhard Plank, Jonathan Glinz and Sascha Senck
2020 Andreas Michael Stock, Gabriel Herl, Professor Dr Tomas Sauer and Professor Dr-Ing Jochen Hiller
2021 Mahdi Mirzapour, Amir Movafeghi and Effat Yahaghi
2022 Abdel Rahman Dakak, Valérie Kaftandjian, Philippe Duvauchelle and Patrick Bouvet
2023 Dr Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, David Carswell, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey
