Awards/Scholarships

Previous Award Winners

Biennial Railway Project Award

2000 Jolimont Rationalisation Project
2004 Mining Area C to Yandi Mine Railroad
2006 PTA – Train Control System
2008 Middlesborough Road Separation
2010 Kiwi Rail Arahura Road/Rail Bridge
2012 Kiwi Rail, North South Junction Project
2014 Glenfield Junction Alliance, Glenfield Junction Project
2016 Roy Hill Rail Project & KiwiRail Auckland Electrification Project
2018 KiwiRail Kaikōura Recovery Project (link under construction)

Graduate Engineer Award

2013 Michelle Tan and Raphael Chagellis
2014 Rochelle Bosworth and Michael Donald
2015 Jennifer Aiton
2016 Antonia Niaga and Mitchell Lees
2017 James Donovan (link under construction)
2018 Victoria Bourke (link under construction)

Individual Award

1999 Ross Hunter
2000 Dr. Stephen Marich
2002 David O’Grady
2003 John Hoare
2004 Peter Mutton
2005 Vince Graham
2006 David Ferris
2007 Peter Martinovich
2008 Dr. Martin Murray
2009 Graham Tew
2010 Vince O’Rourke OM
2011 David Marchant AM
2012 John Hearsch
2013 Dr. Francis Small
2014 Ravi Ravitharan
2015 Prof. Buddhima Indraratna
2016 Max Michell
2018 Colin Butcher (link under construction)

Life Membership Award

2002 Ian Nibloe
2002 John Adams
2002 Les McNaughton
2006 Ian MacFarlane (deceased)
2008 Philip Laird
2010 Chris Venn-Brown
2010 George Erdos
2010 John Watsford
2011 Ravi Ravirathan
2014 Robert Schweiger
2016 John Dring
2018 John Goodall and William Laidlaw (link under construction)

PhD & Masters Thesis Awards

2013 Dr. Iman Salehi
2014 Dr. Sagheer Abbas Ranjha
2015 Dr. Hossein Askarinejad
2016 Dr. Jerome Pun
2017 Andrew Chan (link under construction)
2018 Wahid Ferdous (link under construction)
2019 Quan Lai (link under construction)

Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award

2004 Nick Stephens and Savithri Shimada
2005 David Caldwell and Luke Cervoni
2006 Jonathan Dennis
2009 Patrick van Raay and Alexander Chen
2010 Victor Lorena and Ms. Clara Mulholland
2011 Ross McGovern
2012 John Bills
2013 Jennifer Aiton
2014 Tyler Plowright and Dane Griffin
2015 Ian Mackay and David McKenzie
2016 Matthew Kwong
2017 Jason Johnston (link under construction)
2018 Andrew Talos (link under construction)
2019 Micah Fountain (link under construction)

RTSA Annual Scholarship

2013 Amanda Lu
2014 David Ogucha
2015 Ryan Trevaskis
2016/17 Esther Warren (link under construction)
2018 Gordon Baulch (link under construction)

Young Railway Engineer Award

2004 Jacob Latter
2005 Wilson Wong
2006 Rebecca Bignell and Tom Hampton
2007 Daniel Martucci and Behzad Fatahi
2008 Sakdirat Kaewunruen
2009 David Coker and Chris Gordon
2010 Peter Munro and Daniel Headifen
2011 Sean Myers and William Street
2012 Ms. Lucy Gardner and Daniel Thomson
2013 Liam Palmer-Cannon and Jonathan Barnes
2014 Shane Dyer and Shaun Robertson
2015 David Law and Esther Warren
2016 Yvette Griggs and Michael Hetherington
2017 Daniel Price and Henry Hunh (link under construction)
2018 Brendan Cassels and Michael Crocker (link under construction)

ARA Young Rail Professional Award (sponsored by RTSA starting in 2016)

2014 Mathieu Gonzalez
2015 Calvin Li
2016 Samuel Lilley
2017 Gordon Baulch
2018 Ryan Holt and Laura Edwards
2019 Mark Xerri (link under construction)

Wheel-Rail Interface Award