Engineering for a Sustainable Future
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New Spirit Challenge 2004
What's the greatest challenge facing engineers today?
The creation of a sustainable society.
This means new approaches to engineering, new businesses, new products and services and new ways of organising that create wealth for all partners and enhance the environment and quality of life.
What can you do to contribute to sustainability? How could your own work or activities achieve this? By entering the New Spirit Challenge 2004 - it?s your opportunity to enrol others in a project focusing on sustainability.
Organised by Engineering for a Sustainable Future, one of the IEE's Professional Networks the competition winner will receive practical support for projects aimed at making an innovative contribution to sustainability. The Challenge is open to individuals and small teams (both engineers and non-engineers) from across the globe. Projects may be located anywhere in the world.
The practical support can be of a form proposed by the applicant. For example this can include relevant training for the applicant, preferably in an interactive form with deliverables to share with others, attendance at relevant events and assistance with networking opportunities to raise awareness of the project. Any proposed events may take place anywhere in the world and will be open and incorporated in to the IEE programme where possible. The practical support will be offered on an international basis.
The winner will also be able to publish progress reports on the IEE's Engineering for a Sustainable Future Professional Network website and in IEE journals as appropriate.
A team of high-profile professionals interested or working in the field of sustainability will judge the Challenge.
Activities that contribute to the creation of a sustainable society:
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Do not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
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Recognise the dynamic needs of a society and the environment as a whole
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Encourage individual responsibility for the state of the planet and society as a whole
How to Apply
Applicants to the New Spirit Challenge must submit a proposal on the official application form. The proposal must include:
A vision statement as to how your own work or the work of others could be made more sustainable.
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A plan describing what the first steps towards achieving the vision will be. Typically, the idea here would be to validate your vision with relevant experts and in the market. If you want to hold workshops, for example, you should specify what the subjects of these events should be, who should be invited, and what their desired outcomes should be. You may specify more imaginative forms of interactive event (e.g. using the Internet, TV etc).
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A description of the long-term outputs of the project, and the major risks and challenges you anticipate between you and success. This should include how the success of your project should be measured.
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Work in this sense can be taken to mean your own job, the organisation you work for, its products and services, or the industry or markets in which it operates. If you are not working you may use any area to focus on provided you are involved in it in some way (as a customer, stakeholder or a user, for instance).
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Judging Panel
The New Spirit Challenge 2003 will be judged by:
- Dr Nigel Burton
Director WILink plc, IEE Vice President
- Declan Pritchard
Managing Director, Anglesey Wind & Energy Ltd
- Trevor Baylis OBE
Inventor, Founder of Trevor Bayliss Foundation
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Judging Criteria
When completing your application, please bear in mind that judges are looking specifically for the following:
1. The degree to which the entrant demonstrates holistic (multi-disciplinary) thinking as shown by: the breadth of influences and impacts identified and the depth to which the entrant demonstrates understanding of these influences and impacts.
2. The degree to which the entrant demonstrates individual responsibility and leadership.
3. The potential for the purpose to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society. Both the likelihood of success and the magnitude of contribution, assuming success, will be considered with equal weight.
4. The likely impact of the project on the engineering community.
5. The imagination and feasibility of the proposed first steps in the implementation of the project (i.e. how the entrant would use the resources offered).
6. The level of commitment and clarity of thought expressed by the entrant.
7. The originality/novelty of the project.
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Competition Guidelines
1. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
2. The Professional Network (PN) reserves the right to disqualify incomplete or illegible applications. Applications should be in English. However, grammatical or orthorgraphical faults will not disadvantage the application providing the meaning is clear.
3. Entries must be submitted on an official entry form and be received by the PN no later than 5pm, GMT, Friday, 19 September 2003. One additional A4 sheet (double sided) may be submitted with additional information, including any diagram to illustrate the entry.
4. No responsibility can be accepted for any loss or damage to entries however caused. Entrants will receive confirmation of the receipt of their entry.
5. The Challenge is open to individual or small team applications only and must be the original work of the applicant. The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18, including PN members, with exception of members of the PN?s Executive Team involved in screening entrants, the authors of the Challenge, the judges and their families.
6. The actual form of the award will depend on the project(s) and PN capabilities in 2004 and is at the discretion of the PN. No cash alternative will be given. The IEE PN reserves the right to charge a delegate fee for any resulting event in line with normal practices (excluding award winners).
7. In the event that insufficient entries have been received by the closing date, a second call for applications may be made at the discretion of the PN judges. Appropriate adjustments will be made to the judging schedule. Any changes to the schedule will be posted on the PN?s web site, www.iee.org/pn/sustainability. If, in view of the judges, the entries are of insufficient quality for an award then the PN reserves the right to withdraw the Challenge or run it the following year. At the discretion of the PN Executive Team, and in agreement with the judges, the total value of the award may be adjusted depending on the quality and number of entrants.
8. Winner(s) will be notified by 5pm, GMT, Friday 31 October 2003. The award will be made at a presentation ceremony at IEE, London, the date of which has yet to be confirmed. Finalists are expected to attend the award ceremony and give a brief presentation on their project. Reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
9. The PN reserves the right to use the winning entries for publicity and ongoing research purposes, but will make full acknowledgement of the entrants involved. It is a condition of entry that any entrant approached by the media will ensure that full acknowledgement is given to the IEE?s New Spirit Challenge, the Engineering for a Sustainable Future Professional Network, and to any relevant sponsors.
10. The winners agree to co-operate with publicity that may arise. It is a condition of entry that the winner will agree to produce quarterly reports on the progress of the project, in order to allow the PN to publish updated information on the project. The winner also agrees to produce a final status report.
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Co-sponsored by
Campaign to Promote Engineering
Sustainability Alliance which includes the following institutions:
Institution of Environmental Sciences
Institution of Highways & Transportation
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Institute of Energy
Institution of Chemical Engineers
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
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