Malcolm McIvor was one of the key people in ICI
who helped establish CPACT in 1997 and he played a prominent role in project
supervision during the early stages of CPACT’s activities. Malcolm enjoyed his
engagement with CPACT and has generously endowed a prize to be awarded annually
to a researcher in recognition of that individual’s achievement in process
analytics and control technologies.
The prize recognises excellence in terms of scientific achievement,
creative thinking and/or engagement between academia and industry.
The CPACT Chair and the selection panel,
comprised of academic and industrial members of the CPACT Industrial Management
Board, decided that the winner was Liam Fleming (pictured) from the University
of Newcastle for his work in the area of process control and analytics.
Liam said ‘It is wonderful that I have been awarded the
Malcom McIvor prize this year for my work in process control and optimisation;
I feel very honoured to be recognised for this prize. I would like to thank Dr
Shirley Coleman for her support over the joint study with Johnson Matthey, whom
I subsequently joined following my PhD studies and I look forward to working
much more within the CPACT community in the near future’.