The IET Achievement Awards

Paul Fletcher Award

Awarded to a volunteer for outstanding achievement in contributing to the activities of the IET. The process of selecting the 2011 recipient was based on a short-list compiled by the Young Professionals Coordination Team, listing the outstanding active Young Professional  volunteers of the IET.

Awards ceremony

The winner of the 2012 Paul Fletcher Award will be invited to attend Ambition and Achievement Awards Ceremony in London on 22 November 2012, where they will be presented with a certificate and £250.00 cash prize.  This high profile event offers excellent networking opportunities.

How to nominate a candidate

To make a nomination, please download the nomination form via the link on the right.  Please ensure that a 'curriculum vitae' or CV accompanies the application.  We welcome nominations for women and men IET volunteers from around the world. For the Paul Fletcher Award you are required to be an IET Member to nominate and be nominated.

Background information

The Paul Fletcher Award Legacy was set up in the memory of Paul Fletcher who wished to encourage the success of younger people in our profession.

2011 Paul Fletcher Award: Tom Hlaing

Tom was chosen because of his long volunteering career and history of achievement within the IET governance in various roles, among which includes being a current member of the Membership and Professional Development Board (MPDB), past member of Council, Board Member of European Young Engineers (EYE), past member of the Younger Members Board (YMB), and past YP and LN Chair in the East Midlands Local Network. His notable YP achievement was co-chair of the Volunteers Conference Weekend 2010.

Tom's achievements so far...

Tom Hlaing graduated with a first class MEng Honours degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Management in 2005. He has been an active member of the IET since his first year as an undergraduate, when he joined the East Midlands Network as the university representative. Since graduating from the University of Nottingham, he has became a Manufacturing Engineer at Rolls-Royce where his training exposed him to manufacturing engineering’s key functions; product introduction, capability acquisition, business management and continuous improvement and he has been fortunate to work around the world with the company.

Today Tom works as a lean Six-Sigma Blackbelt having spent the past four years specialising in the continuous improvement element of engineering. However, his job today no longer involves the engineering function, instead he find himself engaging with finance, marketing, commercial, legal and HR functions as he looks after the transactional aspects of the Civil Aerospace business based in Derby, UK.

Throughout his professional career, Tom has stayed an active member of the IET. He has been chair of his Local Network, member of the Global Operations Board, Council member and most recently sits on the Members and Professional Development Board.

"I became an active volunteer of the then IEE as I felt my professional institution did not really represent the needs of a Manufacturing Engineering student, it was known as the Electricals after all! But I have stayed active in my volunteering with the IET as I get so much out of it. Professionally, it has exposed me to experiences and given me training that I would not get as a young engineer at work; “simple“ things like chairing a meeting effectively to leading a team of people, formulating strategy and discussing how to spend a million pound global budget! This has certainly helped in my professional development. But also I am proud to have been part of shaping the IET we have today, and certainly making Young Professional issues central the future of our institution."