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ICE organise the following competitions to encourage engineers to develop essential skills for career development.
Merit competition
The Merit computer simulation provides the essentials for all construction professionals, managers, engineers, builders or students in construction to augment their technical knowledge with the managerial skills required to run a modern construction company. By taking part you will learn and develop management skills by making decisions that affect the business performance, such as marketing, estimating, bidding, financial, personnel and site management.
This exciting and dynamic simulation teaches participants how to set strategic and annual targets, manage risk, develop leadership skills, build relationships with clients, raise awareness of health and safety, promote quality standards and environmental issues, along with many others management tools, in a virtual reality construction world.
Starting from an historical position of one year's trading, a company is managed through two phases:
Phase 1 - the early years: The team, operating as a board of directors, runs the company and competes for contracts over eight quarterly rounds in a simulated construction market which is updated regularly to reflect changing market conditions. The dynamics of this stage of the competition enable the teams to appreciate the impact of each decision they make.
Phase 2 - the final years: The six leading teams from phase 1 compete in the two day final at Loughborough University. This is a more competitive environment, where the six teams compete against each other over a further eight rounds for contracts and resources.
Rules and prizes: There is no age limit for team members and there can be up to six members in a team. There will be prizes for all finalists but the winning team will be awarded a silver salver for one year and will attract prestige and publicity for themselves and their employers. In addition, there will be £2000 available to be shared among the winning teams for further training or travel associated with training or continuing professional development.
For more details visit the MERIT web siteor contact andrew.crudgington@ice.org.uk.
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Civil Engineering Manager of the Year Award
The aim of The Civil Engineering Manager of the Year Award (CEMYA) is to highlight and recognise the best of civil engineering management and to set an example for younger Civil Engineers to develop their management skills.
Civil Engineering solutions have wide-ranging impacts on not only the built environment but also quality of life and wider society; well-managed projects greatly improve the profile and efficiency of UK Construction, if you have been involved in the delivery of such a project we want to know about it.
Applicants are required to be professionally qualified civil engineers who have achieved excellence in management, irrespective of the size or type of activity, field of practice, project or employing organisation.
Find out more online
For any supporting information on this award, please contact tony.blackmore@ice.org.uk
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NCE Communication Competition
Communication skills are an essential tool for an engineer's career development, yet few opportunities exist for engineer's to develop these skills early in their careers. The former President of ICE, David Green, devised this competition in 1992 as a first class training opportunity for younger members in an effort to encourage the development of communication skills.
The competition is based on the setting of a public meeting on a fictional scenario which could be about any technical project involving the social and economic aspects of engineering work and may even be futuristic. Teams have to produce a leaflet to outline their scheme and then give a presentation to an audience.
For details of how to enter contact robert.huxford@ice.org.uk
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Teambuild
Teambuild challenges young professionals to form a multi-disciplinary team of six to compete in a simulation of the design and construction processes. The weekend starts with a master plan proposal and finishes with the construction stage of a development, solving a number of real life problems along the way.
Each team will consist of up to 6 professionals comprising a number of disciplines covering all aspects of building design and construction. Experience in construction, architecture, civil, structural and building services engineering, quantity surveying, planning and landscape architecture will be useful.
Teamwork is essential!
Team members should be aged under 30 on 1st January 2006 and should be student, graduate, chartered or incorporated members of their professional institution. No team may contain more than 2 members who have previously taken part in the finals.
Cash prizes of up to £1500 will be awarded to the winning team and the team with the best performance in certain sections. Team members can also claim up to 4 days CPD for participation.
for more information visit the Teambuild website or email teambuild@ice.org.uk
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Zienkiewicz Medal and Prize
The Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize was introduced in 1998 following a donation by John Wiley & Sons Ltd to commemorate the work of Professor Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE DSc FRS FREng of the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea.The prize (£1,000 and medal) is awarded biennially to a post-graduate researcher under the age of 40 who submits the paper which contributes most to research in the field of numerical methods in engineering.
Papers must either be submitted in a form suitable for publication or already have been published after 30 June 2006 in one of the following journals:
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
- Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
- International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
- ICE Proceedings
All papers must be submitted with a covering letter from the competitor’s supervisor or head of department. The letter should indicate willingness to allow the prize to be awarded to the competitor as a single author, especially in the case of multiple authorship. If papers are submitted which have been written by more than one author, the part written by the competitor should be clearly indicated.
Papers shall be deemed to be in a form suitable for publication if they adhere to the 'Author's guidelines' for the appropriate journal. These are issued by Thomas Telford Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Competitors should refer to the guidelines for their chosen journal and submit their paper in the preferred format.
The Judging Panel of three will be chaired by Professor Zienkiewicz or someone nominated by him. It will comprise one representative nominated by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and another nominated by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Papers should be submitted to the Institution of Civil Engineers by 31 December 2008 for consideration by the Judging Panel in early 2009.
Papers should be addressed to:
Rose Marney (Zienkiewicz Prize)
The Institution of Civil Engineers
One Great George Street
Westminster
London SW1P 3AA
rose.marney@ice.org.uk
The prize will be presented at an awards ceremony in 2009.
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