James Watt International Gold Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
The ''James Watt International Gold Medal'' is awarded by the British to an outstanding mechanical engineer. :"''To commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of James Watt on 19 January 1736 - an event which was destined to bring about a revolution in the utilisation of power - the Institution of Mechanical Engineers award every two years a Gold Medal to an engineer of any nationality who is deemed worthy of the highest award the Institution can bestow and that a mechanical engineer can receive. In making the award, the Institution has sought the co-operation and advice of engineering Institutions and Societies in all parts of the world.'' :''To be worthy to receive a medal struck in commemoration of one who was at one and the same time a scientist, an inventor and a producer, the recipient himself should be an engineer who has achieved international recognition both by his works as a mechanical engineer and by the ability with which he has applied science to the progress of mechanical engineering."'' Recipients of the James Watt International Gold Medal are:James Watt Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers
The ''James Watt Medal'' is also a lesser known award of the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for energy engineers. From the Institution of Civil Engineers website: :''"The James Watt Medal is awarded for papers having a substantial mechanical engineering content. The medal, named after James Watt, the Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor who died in 1819, was introduced by Robert Stephenson (President of ICE in 1855-1856) who recommended Council to acquire the dies of the medal from Joseph S Wyon in 1858."'' Recipients of the James Watt Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers include: *1880s? Basil Wood for his work on Combined Heat and Power *2000 Paul Kassabian. Structural engineer with interests in design, dynamic control, and deployable structures.See also
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