M. A. Sargent Medal Explained

The M. A. Sargent Medal is awarded by Engineers Australia for longstanding eminence in science or the practice of electrical engineering. It is named in honour of Michael Anthony (Mike) Sargent, an outstanding Australian electrical engineer.^[1] The medal is the highest award of the Electrical College board of Engineers Australia.^[2]

Recipients

Source: Engineers Australia

• 1989 Stuart G. Lister, State Electricity Commission of Queensland
• 1990 Graham Goodwin,^[3] University of Newcastle, Australia
• 1991 John Ness, MITEC Ltd
• 1992 W. Derek Humpage,^[2] University of Western Australia
• 1993 W. John Edwards, Industrial Automation Services Pty Ltd
• 1994 Martin Green,^[4] University of New South Wales
• 1995 Rodney Tucker,^[5] University of Melbourne
• 1996 Else Shepherd, Powerlink Queensland
• 1997 John Hullett, Curtin University
• 1998 John Richard (Rick) Gumley, Erico Lightning Technologies
• 1999 Michael Miller,^[6] University of South Australia
  • 2000 Mark Sceats,^[7] University of Sydney 2001 No award
• 2002 Brian D. O. Anderson,^[8] Australian National University
• 2003 Henry d'Assumpcao,^[9] Defence Science and Technology Organisation
• 2004 Richard Middleton,^[10] University of Newcastle, Australia
• 2005 Noel Godfrey, Hatch Associates
• 2006 Barry Inglis, CSIRO
• 2007 Vic Gosbell,^[11] University of Wollongong
• 2008 Keith Hilless,^[12] Zerogen Pty Ltd
• 2009 No award
• 2010 David James Skellern,^[13] Macquarie University
• 2011 Paul Wilson,^[14] Queensland University of Technology
• 2012 Trevor S. Bird,^[15] CSIRO
• 2013 John O'Sullivan,^[16] CSIRO
• 2014 Don Sinnott,^[17] Defence Science and Technology Organisation
• 2015 David Sweeting^[18] University of Wollongong and Alex Zelinsky,^[9] Defence Science and Technology Organisation
• 2016 Alan Finkel,^[19] Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)
• 2017 Hugh Durrant-Whyte,^[20] The University of Sydney
• 2018 Xinghuo Yu,^[21] RMIT University
• 2019 Derek Abbott,^[22] University of Adelaide
• 2020 Ian Hiskens,^[23] University of Michigan
• 2021 Ian Webster, Ampcontrol P/L and Qing-Long Han, Swinburne University^[24]
• 2022 Tapan Saha, University of Queensland and Peng Shi, University of Adelaide^[25]

See also

• List of engineering awards
• List of awards named after people

Notes and References

1. Web site: College Awards. Engineers Australia.
2. Web site: Faculty Prizes. University of Western Australia.
3. Web site: Biography. Trove.
4. Web site: Biography. Trove.
5. Web site: IEEE LEOS News, p. 22. IEEE.
6. Web site: UniSA names inaugural Michael Miller Medal winner. University of South Australia.
7. Web site: Executive management team. Calix.
8. Web site: Biographical entry. Encyclopedia of Australian Science.
9. Web site: Prestigious engineering award. IEEE. 2015-08-28.
10. Web site: Annual Report. Hamilton Institute.
11. Web site: Gosbell's top honour for power quality achievements. University of Wollongong.
12. Web site: December 2009 Newsletter. Engineers Australia.
13. Web site: Order of Australia. Australian Government.
14. Web site: Annual Report. Engineers Australia.
15. Web site: Biography. CSIRO. 2015-01-13.
16. Web site: 2013 Newsletter. Engineers Australia.
17. Web site: Jindalee over the horizon radar. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203201831/https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/175248. dead. February 3, 2019. IEEE.
18. Web site: Reflection of a M A Sargent Medal Winner 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011712/http://sites.ieee.org/nsw/files/2009/04/Joint-Electrical-seminar-26-November-2015.pdf. dead. February 12, 2019. IEEE.
19. Web site: Electrical College Board Awards Evening . Engineers Australia.
20. Web site: And the winner is. Engineers Australia.
21. Prof. Xinghuo Yu Awarded the M.A. Sargent Medal. IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. 12. 3. 47. 10.1109/MIE.2018.2856550. 2018. free.
22. Web site: Staff News. University of Adelaide.
23. Web site: Ian Hiskens receives MA Sargent Medal. University of Michigan.
24. Web site: Port Stephens’ Ian Webster Takes Out Engineerings Top Honour. NewsOfTheArea.
25. Web site: Meet the winners of Australia’s top engineering awards for 2021. Engineers Australia.