Engineers who are high achievers in Australia’s and New Zealand rail sector have been recognised in the 2023 Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA) Awards.
The RTSA awards have been presented at the Conference on Rail Excellence in Melbourne.
Engineers Australia Chief Executive Officer, Romilly Madew AO said: “On behalf of the engineering profession, warm congratulations to all award-winners.
“Among many other things, the work that the winners have done has helped to increase efficiency and raise safety levels for those who rely on rail, including workers and passengers.”
The highest award – the 2023 RTSA Individual Award – has been won by Andrew Matthews.
This award celebrates his 40 outstanding years of engineering experience in the rail industry, both heavy and light rail.
Andrew’s achievements span a wide range of projects including the Melbourne Level Crossing Removals Program and Suburban Rail Loop, Sydney Light Rail, the Gold Coast Light Rail Extension Project and work overseas such as the Wellington Rapid Transit Program and the London Jubilee Line Extension.
Andrew is a proven subject matter expert who could be trusted to provide sound, well-developed and thoroughly analysed advice from concept transport planning and development to design and implementation.
In addition, he is credited with mentoring junior engineers and technicians and has presented papers at over 20 conferences. Andrew is highly respected by all his peers and is a well-deserved recipient of the 2023 RTSA Individual Award.
The full list of award-winners is:
- 2021 RTSA Young Rail Professional Award - Mary Nguyen
- 2021 Railway Graduate Engineer Award - Linda Li
- 2021 Railway Graduate Engineer Award - Brendan Cornish
- 2021 Young Railway Engineer Award - Andrew Tay
- 2021 Young Railway Engineer Award - Sanya Kerawala
- 2022 Young Railway Engineer Award - Adriane Ho
- 2022 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award - Kieranpal Sidhu
- 2022 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award - Michael Bourke
- 2022 Railway Graduate Engineer Award - Bryan Law
- 2022 Railway Graduate Engineer Award - Andrew Smetherham
- 2022 Railway PhD Thesis Award - Dr Sundar Shrestha
- 2022 Railway Scholarship Award - Priannka Kumar
- 2022 Young Railway Engineer Award - Dr Ash Athukoralalage
- 2022 Railway PhD Thesis Award Runner-Up – Dr Steven McKerlie
- 2022 Railway PhD Thesis Award Runner-Up – Dr Hang Su
- 2022 Railway Master Thesis Award – Dr Mohan Sankarasubbu
- 2022 Railway Professional of the Year Award - Walter Ruhsbrook
- 2023 Railway Engineering Undergraduate Thesis Award - Thomas Murphy
- 2023 Railway PhD Thesis Award Runner-Up – Dr Esteban Bernal Arango
- 2023 Railway PhD Thesis Award Runner-Up – Dr Christophe Camille
- 2023 Railway PhD Thesis Award Winner - Dr Piyush Punetha
- 2023 Railway Professional of the Year - David Stuart-Smith
- 2023 Railway Individual Award - Andrew Matthews
- 2023 Life Membership Award - Simon Wood
Awards dating back to 2021 have been announced because the conference is held every two years and last year’s conference was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. See our awards booklet to read more about each of the winners.
RTSA is a Technical Society of Engineers Australia and a Technical Group of Engineering New Zealand.
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