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Mountbatten Medal Winner
Professor Christopher Snowden (left) presents the Mountbatten Medal to Dave Ogden
BAE Systems technologist Dave Ogden has been awarded one of the UK's most prestigious awards for electronics and information technology, the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Mountbatten Medal, for his outstanding contribution to the sector. The award was announced at a ceremony in London on Thursday 12 November.
The medal is awarded annually, with the winner selected by a panel consisting of the presidents of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the British Computer Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Previous winners have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, David Potter, the founder of the Psion microcomputing company, and Sir Peter Bonfield, the chief executive of ICL.
The Mountbatten Medal celebrates individuals who have made an outstanding contribution, over a period of time, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application in way that benefits the UK.
Dave, an employee with the Military Air Solutions business at Warton in Lancashire, UK has worked for more than 20 years on the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, and is regarded as a leading figure in the field of hardware and software design and integration. In particular, he has been responsible for the design and integration of the Typhoon's computer symbol generator, which is considered the most complex piece of hardware on the most complex jet fighter ever built.
Dave served his time as an electrician and gained an HNC at college before earning a degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Liverpool University. He joined BAE Systems in 1987.
The President of the Institution, Professor Christopher Snowden said: "It is a great pleasure to be recognising the very best talent in the engineering industry."
The criterion for awarding the medal include the stimulation of public awareness of the significance and value of electronics, spreading recognition of the economic significance of electronics and IT, and encouraging their effective use throughout industry in general; encouraging excellence in product innovation and the successful transition of scientific advances to wealth-creating products; recognising brilliance in academic and industrial research; encouraging young people of both sexes to make their careers in the electronics and IT industries; and increasing the awareness of the importance of electronics and IT among teachers and others in the educational disciplines.
At the same event, Dick Olver, Chariman of BAE Systems gave the Mountbatten Memorial Lecture with the subject, 'Solving Global Challenges demands Ethical Leadership'.
The speech can be viewed here.
