SME Awards – Call For Nominations, Due 1 June

SME’s award nomination process has now opened and nominations are due 1st June.

Nominations should be submitted online through the SME website. The SME Awards page provides information and helps you begin the process. Questions can be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

There are many awards options including the following in the Mineral & Metallurgical Processing (MPD) category, with SME’s descriptions provided below, with minor simplification by CEEC (please refer to SME weblink below for full details):

  • The Antoine M. Gaudin Award, established in 1975, is for scientific or engineering contributions that further understanding of the technology of mineral processing. Eligible areas for contributions are agglomeration, classification, comminution, electrical and magnetic separation, flocculation and sedimentation, froth flotation, hydrometallurgy, particulate behavior, and other related mineral processing operations.
  • The Arthur F. Taggart Award, established in 1970, is made for the paper or series of closely related papers with at least one common author, which in the opinion of the Committee represents a notable contribution to the science of minerals processing. The selection shall be made from papers on mineral processing, published in Minerals and Metallurgical Processing Journal, Mining Engineering, Transactions, or any other appropriate SME publication published within the year preceding the Award, to May 31. All nominees for the Award must be members of SME.
  • The MPD Outstanding Young Engineer Award, established in 1984, recognizes significant contribution of a young individual within the Mineral Processing/Extractive discipline. To be eligible, the nominee must:

    • be a graduate engineer actively working in a Mineral Processing Extractive discipline
    • a member of MPD/SME
    • less than 36 years old before 1 January in the award presentation year
    • have made a significant contribution to industry in either academics, research, operations, design, or engineering/construction.

  • The Robert H. Richards Award, established in 1948, and funded by AIME, recognizes achievement in any form which unmistakably furthers the art of mineral beneficiation in any of its branches.
  • The Milton E. Wadsworth Metallurgy Award, established in 1992, recognizes distinguished contributions that advance our understanding of the science and technology of non-ferrous chemical metallurgy, for a living person.Areas eligible for consideration include, chemical thermodynamics, phase equilibria, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and other phenomena occurring in metallurgical processes such as hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy and electrometallurgy

SME MPD Awards details can be found here.

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