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Awards & Prizes

Riley Medal

As successor to the West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, the Association is able to award the prestigious Riley Medal (photograph).

The Riley Medal is named after James Riley, the first President of the West of Scotland ISI. 

He was a nationally known figure and a member of the Iron and Steel Institute based in London. 

The medal has been awarded discontinuously over almost 100 years in recognition of the impact individuals have made to the promotion and advancement of the science and technology of metals, alloys and allied materials.
 

Sometimes, the award was made to recognise the technical contribution made by the recipients, for example William Barr and I M McKenzie. In other cases, the award acknowledged prolonged and dedicated professional service: past Secretaries P W Thomas and A MacLaggan and long serving Treasurer Dr J M Arrowsmith have each received the medal. Other recipients such as Viscount Weir, Sir Ian Wood and Dr Peter Hughes were selected on account of their leadership of the wider industry. 

Previous Recipients

Student Prizes

 The association provides student prizes for three materials related programmes in Scotland.

University of Glasgow - Mechanical Engineering

University of Glasgow - Biomedical Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University - Advanced Materials Engineering


Previous Student Winners

Riley Medal Past Winners

  

Year Riley Medallists

1926 G Beard

1947 J Taylor

1948 J Monagham

1951 R P Towndrow

1953 G Bowman

1957 W Barr and I M Mackenzie

1959 E H Baldwin, I M Mathieson and D B McNeill

1966 H W Kirkby

1974 P W Thomas

1984 A McLaggan

1992 J M Arrowsmith and Viscount Weir

1994 Sir Ian Wood

2016 P Hughes

2020 Prof E Tanner, Prof T N Baker and J R Wilcox

2024 Prof  R L Reuben  

Student Prizes

University of Glasgow Mechanical Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University Advanced Materials Engineering

University of Glasgow Mechanical Engineering

2015 Karolis Siksnius

2016 Julija Volkova

2017 Ross Williams​

2018 David Colquhoun

2019 Brogan Gauld

2020 Luis Gonzalez Camacho

2021 Azam Ghaffar

2022 Liam Robbie

2023 Rahul Marwaha

2024 Elliot Boath 

University of Glasgow Biomedical Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University Advanced Materials Engineering

University of Glasgow Mechanical Engineering

2014 Anna Zalauf

2015 Ian Smith

2016 Bojidar Rangelov

2017 Katie Douglas

2018 Matthew Smith​

2019 Giuseppe Ciccone

2020 Emma Garcia Legler

2021 Daisy Ferraro

2022 Emma Knox

2023 Zarina Issabekova

2024 Yazan Haidar 

Edinburgh Napier University Advanced Materials Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University Advanced Materials Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University Advanced Materials Engineering

2014 Morten Nordahl

2015 Aamir Ali

2016 Scott Sneddon

2017 Maria Lang Penalver​

2018 Stewart Russell

2019 Michael Mccracken

2020 Lewis Murdoch

2021 Katharina Gerhild Maletz

2022 Cezary Lisicki

2023 NOT AWARDED

2024 Anju Saji

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