The awards (formerly known as the Australian Space Awards) is returning for its fifth year and will conclude with a black-tie gala ceremony on Tuesday, 28 May 2024, at The Star, Sydney. Click here to buy tickets.
We urge you to contest for the Engineer of the Year award, which is just one of 25 individual and group categories available for candidates to choose from.
Submit an entry or nominate a colleague by Monday, 4 March 2024, for a chance at national recognition of your achievements.
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This individual award recognises any degree-qualified engineer at any career level and at any age who has demonstrated a commitment to excelling in the space industry and is on a rapid career trajectory.
Your work must have been central to the commercial success, growth or development of your organisation.
All engineers working in the space industry across areas such as agricultural, aerospace, civil, electrical and electronics, mechatronics, launch, mechanical, structural, information and combat systems, and all other sectors are encouraged to participate.
To be eligible for this award, the nominee must own or be employed in an Australian business, organisation or institution (or a division of a global business that is registered to trade in Australia) that has a focus on supporting the Australian space supply chain.
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As part of the assessment criteria in your submissions, you will be asked a series of questions, to which you must provide responses of a maximum of 400 words per question.
The submission presents you with an opportunity to detail the outstanding work that demonstrates excellence in your specific area of expertise, and how this has benefited your organisation or institution.
Second, you will be asked to describe the major challenges you encountered in completing your work and how you successfully overcame them. You must also articulate the key benefits or utility of your work.
Following this, outline your contribution to the wider innovation, growth or financial performance of your specific department, program, institution and/or the company as a whole, with reference, where relevant, to specific data.
Finally, explain how you have contributed to the profession more widely or to the space industry outside of the specific work outlined above.
Supporting documents can boost a submission
To provide further evidence of your achievements, you are encouraged to provide a maximum of four supporting documents and refer to any attached supporting material for the judges’ consideration.
This material can include financial or business metrics, images, statistics, transcripts, media coverage, accolades, testimonials or recommendations/references and other relevant information.
If the documents are not directly referenced and relevant to your submission, they will be disregarded.
In addition to the documents, we also encourage entrants to submit an optional short video up to 30 seconds long, answering the question: “What does business success mean to you?”
The assessment period for the award is from 1 January to 31 December 2023.
Finalists will be determined by a well-respected judging panel that includes senior space industry and government leaders, academics, business executives, entrepreneurs and innovators, providing you with peer-reviewed recognition of your capabilities in space and passion for driving the industry forward. Click here to view the methodology.
How to enter the awards
To enter the awards, decide which categories you are eligible to submit into.
Then, register your account through our secure awards platform and log in. Fill in the details of your submission/s.
When you are happy with your submission, press save and lodge it.
Submit an entry or nominate a colleague by Monday, 4 March 2024, to be in the running for the awards.
For tips on how to write an effective submission, click here.
To find out how to submit your award entry, click here.
Winners will be announced at the Australian Space Awards 2024 black-tie gala ceremony on Tuesday, 28 May 2024, at The Star, Sydney. Click here to buy tickets.
For more information about the awards program, click here.
Adam Thorn
Adam is a journalist who has worked for more than 40 prestigious media brands in the UK and Australia. Since 2005, his varied career has included stints as a reporter, copy editor, feature writer and editor for publications as diverse as Fleet Street newspaper The Sunday Times, fashion bible Jones, media and marketing website Mumbrella as well as lifestyle magazines such as GQ, Woman’s Weekly, Men’s Health and Loaded. He joined Momentum Media in early 2020 and currently writes for Australian Aviation and World of Aviation.
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