b'Partner News Spring 2022 7IET updatesHybrid event celebrates 2020 and 2021 Churchill Medal Award winnersThe annual Churchill Medal Award ceremony was held on Wednesday 10 November at our flagship home IET London: Savoy Place. The Churchill Medal Award (CMA) is theprototype that delivered an organic sample most prestigious award for engineering andprocessing capability for mobile testing units innovation in the Armed Forces and MOD(MTUs) to be used in the response to the and is awarded every year on behalf of thepandemic. Joint Professional Engineering Institutions. In just 30 days they designed and built a This year we hosted the CMA alongside theworking mobile processing laboratory. PEI Defence Lecture 2021, in partnership with the RAF and DSTL. Due to COVID-19 we wereBoth winners thoroughly deserved their unable to hold a ceremony in 2020 and so weawards which were presented by current IET presented the medals to both our 2020 andPresident Sir Julian Young. 2021 CMA winners at the November event. A hybrid event 2020 Churchill Medal Award winner Over 250 people watched and attended this The 2020 CMA was won by the British Armyyears ceremony both physically and virtually, Training Unit Suffield Workshop (BATUS) as we streamed the event for first time ever Electronic Support Group for developing avia Microsoft Teams. solution to a serious fault with the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) pannier coverThe evening was a huge success and were used on Titan and Trojan armoured engineerdelighted and honoured to have hosted this vehicles.prestigious award ceremony and dinner. This had allowed the ingress of water forWe thank everyone who attended and send eight years, with debris and dirt renderingour sincere congratulations to all of our them, at times, un-usable. In just four monthsfinalists and winners from both 2020 and the group devised a modification that will2021. save BATUS 250 man hours a year and 200,000 of spares and materials.CMA - a joint award The Churchill Medal is awarded jointly by The 2021 Churchill Medal Award was won bythe following institutes: the IET, Institute of Captain Fionidi Parker (REME) and CaptainMarine Engineering, Science and Technology Ian Taylor (REME) for their work during the(IMarEST), the Royal Aeronautical Society pandemic.(RAeS), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the Institution of Royal Employed within the UK Governments TestEngineers (InstRE), the Institution of Civil and Trace Programme, they delivered aEngineers (ICE), the Society of Operations world-leading rapidly deployable capabilityEngineers (SOE) and the British ComputerWe thank everyone who that supports UK local authority COVID-19Society (BCS). attended and send our mass testing.sincere congratulations to To nominate somebody for the 2021/2022 Pandemic response supportChurchill Medal Award please emailall the finalists and winners. They were tasked with designing andchurchillmedal@theiet.orgbuilding a mobile processing laboratory'