SUT Presidents Award

Congratulations
to Ian Wilson, who has recently received the prestigious SUT Presidents Award.
This award is in recognition of the extensive contribution Ian
has made to the underwater engineering industry over the past five years,
culminating in the establishment of subsea engineering as a chartered area of
practice within Engineers Australia’s Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)
accreditation.

Ian has been a long-serving committee member and
office bearer of SUT Perth Branch and was made an SUT Fellow in 2013 in
recognition for his contributions to the formation and early growth of the
Perth Branch.

Ian initiated Perth Branch’s development of a
Subsea Engineering Competency Framework and has provided proactive leadership
of the working group and contributed many hours each week to achieve the goal
this year.

He led negotiations between SUT Perth Branch and
Engineers Australia, resulting in a collaborative agreement between the
organisations.

This agreement establishes a new EA Subsea Engineering area of practice,
allowing subsea engineers to seek EA’s Chartered Professional Engineer
accreditation (i.e. CPEng Subsea).

This area of practice has also been added to
Australia’s National Engineering Register (NER). 

These milestone achievements could not have been
realised without Ian’s passion, dedication and long hours of service to this
cause over these last 5 years, in addition to him serving as Perth’s Honorary
Secretary for much of this time.

In addition to this
Presidents award Ian has also received the very
first CPEng (Subsea) Registration Certificate.

Thank you, Ian for all
that you have done for both the Perth Branch of the SUT and for Subsea
Engineering as a profession.