The Turner Award for Professional Commitment

The Turner Award is presented annually to a Member of IPENZ. The award recognises continuing contribution to the engineering profession as demonstrated by a commitment to the ideals of a self-regulating profession. The Award consists of a trophy and certificate. It is presented at the annual Fellows' and Achievers' Dinner held in March.

Entry and Judging Criteria

Nominees must be current financial Members of IPENZ. Judging criteria include the following

• actively upholding and promoting the ideals of a profession
• contributing to the processes of self-regulation – voluntary activities on committees, taskforces, panels etc
• willingly disseminating technical information to colleagues, as well as the wider community
• promoting engineering as a career to young people and/or mentoring of young engineers
• consistently demonstrating and upholding the Institution’s Code of Ethics
• actively involvment in community affairs
• ongoing commitment to upskilling and maintaining knowledge and professional skills

Award opens 1 August and closes 31 October

Nominations open on 1 August each year and close 31 October. The Award consists of a trophy and a certificate, presented at the IPENZ Fellows' and Achievers' Dinner the following March.

Nomination/application form - Forms will be available for download from the Award and Nomination page once the award is open.

Award History and Previous Winners

The Professional Commitment Award was instituted by R J McCarten in 1981. The Turner Lecture was established in 1985 by an endowment by Charles Turner, a previous Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, as a lecture exploring engineering, the law and contracts. In 2005 these two honours were combined.

Previous winners - Turner Award for Professional Commitment.