Negretti Award reminder
February 2002
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Probably the most prestigious award in the field of measurement and control, the Negretti Award was inaugurated in the 1960s to stimulate local technical expertise. Each year members of the SAIMC are invited to submit papers that have been presented at an SAIMC branch meeting or at an event endorsed by the SAIMC. Other conditions are that the author must be a resident of South Africa; a member of the SAIMC; and the paper must be the author's own work (although it may have more than one author).
Although probably most weight is given to the value of the contents, quite a lot of the score is set by the way in which the talk is introduced, the way in which the speaker gets the message across, audience rapport, use of visual aids and the usual points one looks for in a good presentation.
The presentation must be written up and submitted before mid-September for consideration. According to the panel of adjudicators, it is a good idea to have an office bearer of the local branch present (if the presentation is not at a branch meeting) and to advise them that the paper should be considered for the award.
Because of the prestige and coverage which this award brings, it is not necessarily awarded every year and some years there has been no award if it has been felt that the standard is too low or there are not sufficient entries.
Peter Negretti, a third generation member of the family, who established the then Negretti and Zambra, inaugurated the award. The award was originally administered by Mr McLean who ran Negretti and Zambra in South Africa for 20 years. Rodney Glatt, MD of N&Z Instrumentation, now sponsors it.
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