Left to right: former editor of Engineering Designer Brian Wall (Chair’s Award); outgoing IED Council member Dr Caroline Simcock (medal of
appreciation); Arup senior engineer Ian Wise (Kathbert Trophy and Geo Kirk Young Member’s Award); Pashley Cycles principal development
engineer Je Beach (Alex Moulton Award); IED Council Vice Chair Dave Castle (Founder’s Award); IED President Pete Lomas; Pashley Cycles’ Jon
Cumberpatch (Alex Moulton Award); Ramboll senior consultant Tom Channell (medal of appreciation); Buckinghamshire New University senior
lecturer Dr Tim Coole (medal of appreciation); Aircraft Carrier Alliance engineering director Martin Douglass (Hornsby Cup).
Below: Founder of the Institute of Making Zoe Laughlin (Support, Inspire, Achieve Award receiving the Gerald Frewer Memorial Trophy)
support engineering students, many of
whom are now members of the institution.
The students that he has nurtured have
risen to achieve in many engineering
elds, including mechanical, automotive,
manufacturing, energy and product design.”
LONG ASSOCIATION
The third awardee of a medal of
appreciation went to Dr Caroline Simcock
CEng CTPD MEng & Man (Hons) EngD
FIMechE FIED PMP, whose association
with the institution dates back to 1996,
when she won the A-level Stuart Pugh
Award for Design Engineering and
Technology. When she applied to become
a full member in 2004, the membership
committee were so impressed with her
career progression up to then that they
awarded her the Kathbert Trophy. Since
then, Simcock achieved a doctorate in
engineering, and moved to Dyson, where
she is now director of claims, standards
and insights. She is one of the rst people
in the world to achieve a chartership
for product design, and received her
award at St James’s Palace. Simcock
joined the IED Council in 2013, and has
since carried out numerous interviews,
assessments, mentoring, served on the
Executive Board and represented IED on
many external events. As she steps down
from the Council position, her medal is
given ‘with grateful thanks’ from the IED.
In accepting the award, Simcock said:
“For more than half of my life I’ve been
involved with the IED; I’m sure it will never
be that far away for me. The accreditation
visits are something I’d encourage
everyone to get involved in; it’s about
hearing rsthand from the students how
they’re learning and expanding their
knowledge and how that’s going to be
utilized in industry.”
The Hornsby Cup, presented annually
for the best article in Engineering
Designer, went to Martin Douglass BEng
MSc MIMarEST, for his article ‘Carrying
the Day’ (September/October 2018),
about the design of the HMS Queen
Elizabeth aircraft carrier. In his acceptance
speech, the chief engineer of the Queen
Elizabeth class carrier and engineering
director for the Aircraft Carrier Alliance
at BAE Systems remarked: “I’m sure
everyone in the audience will remember
me doing a similar speech this time a year
ago, because the design won an award. At
that time, the ship was just getting ready
to sail to the US to take on the F-35 for
the rst time. I’m pleased to say that we
were able to deliver the ship ve years
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