IET Achievement Medal

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) awards achievement medals to recognize engineers who have been significant contribution to various fields in engineering Every year, the award committee seeks   and evaluates nominations and makes decision on winners. There is no age limit or nationality requirement. It is an international award.

Technical Fields
The awards are made to recognize specific fields in engineering:
 * 1) Information & Telecommunication
 * 2) Electronics
 * 3) Control Engineering
 * 4) Manufacturing
 * 5) Transport Engineering
 * 6) Environmental Engineering
 * 7) Energy

Naming of Awards
The IET Achievement Medals are named after prominent scientists and engineers. They include:
 * 1) J. J. Thomson - for electronics
 * 2) John Ambrose Fleming - for communications
 * 3) R. E. B. Crompton - for energy
 * 4) Oliver Heaviside - for control
 * 5) Monty Finniston - for general engineering
 * 6) Sarah Guppy - for environment
 * 7) Eric Mensforth - for manufacturing

The awards are sponsored by several companies, such as BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, BP, RS, Pace, e-ON, EDF energy networks, GCHQ, Transport for London, etc.

Award Ceremony
Each year, the award is presented in London, UK. The ceremony is attended by the IET President, distinguished guests, winners and their families and industry sponsors of the event. Also at this ceremony, winners of the IET Faraday Medal and recipient of IET Honorary Fellow will also be announced on this occasion. Some photos taken at the award ceremony can be found here.

Winners
An overview of some of the medalists since 2000 is shown below.

IET J J THOMSON MEDAL • 2000 🇺🇸 John Cioffi

• 2001 🇺🇸 Ian K Proudler

• 2003 John O'Reilly

• 2007 Julian Gardner

• 2008 William Milne

• 2009 🇺🇸 Kam-Yin Lau

• 2011 Chris Toumazou

• 2013 🇺🇸 David F Welch

• 2014 S Ravi Silva

• 2015 🇺🇸 Asad Madni

• 2016 🇺🇸 Alan E. Willner

• 2017 🇺🇸 M. C. Frank Chang

• 2018 Nigel M Allinson

• 2019 🇺🇸 Chenming Hu

IET AMBROSE FLEMING MEDAL • 2007 Simon Kingsley

• 2008 🇮🇳 Brijendra K Syngal

• 2009 🇸🇬 Chai Keong Toh

• 2010 🇺🇸 Vincent Poor

• 2011 C Christopoulous

• 2012 Paul Kane

• 2013 Barry Evans

IET CROMPTON MEDAL • 2008 John GP Scott

• 2009 🇮🇳 Harbans Bajaj

• 2010 🇨🇳 Ron Hui

• 2013 Graham T Reed

IET HEAVISIDE MEDAL • 2007 Ian Postlethwaite

• 2008 Michael J Grimble

• 2009 🇺🇸 Petros Ioannou

• 2012 🇺🇸 Ramesh Agarwal

• 2013 🇨🇦 Chris Hadfield

IET MENSFORTH MEDAL • 2006 Edward Atkin

• 2007 Sir Anthony Bamford

• 2008 Sir Alan Jones

• 2010 🇩🇪 Ralf Speth

• 2013 Nigel Whitehead

• 2014 Gavin Campbell

• 2016 Tom Williams CBE

• 2019 Marcus Burton

A full list of winners since 1987 can be found on the IET website.