Recognition by one’s peers is always important, and the presentation of Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) awards and medals for technical examination results and technical papers is much anticipated. Twenty two technical papers published in the 2010/2011 session were considered for awards. This year the IMarEST President, Malcolm Vincent made the presentations to nine of these winners and additionally to winners of the John Blackburn Main student award, who were able to be at the ceremony in London in advance of the Institute’s Annual General Meeting.

“We were delighted that so many of our worthy winners were able to join us on an important day in the Institute’s calendar,” says IMarEST Chief Executive, David Loosley. “I would urge members and non-members alike to submit papers to our technical journals, the sharing of knowledge was one of the reasons the Institute was established in 1889, and remains just as important to this day.

”The portfolio of IMarEST Awards bear the name of three men with close links with marine engineering – one actually died before the Institute was founded, but by what is described in our archives as “his munificent gift of £250” the Denny Medal was founded in connection with the Institute. The two others both worked in the last century and were members of the Institute for many years. We would encourage modern marine icons and organisations to consider lending their names to awards of the future.”

Professor Volker Pickert and Dr Bashar Zahawi of Newcastle University, who wrote the paper ‘Forced commutation controlled series capacitor (FCSC) circuit applied to stand-alone wave energy conversion buoys’, which was published in the Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology Volume 10, Number 1, both received their Denny Medal and certificates for the most worthy paper by a member or non-member published in the journal. Their colleague and co-author D Kalpoktsoglou was unable to be at the ceremony

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