Quality Awards and Award Winners

Personal Awards
Each year AOQ presents a number of Personal National Awards to members, usually at the Qualcon conference dinner.  The three awards are:

JM Juran Award
To recognise persons who have contributed in an outstanding way to the application of effective quality management in Australia.

Joseph M Juran was deeply involved in management and particularly the management of quality.

The purpose of this award is to recognise persons who have contributed in an outstanding way to the application of effective quality management in Australia.

Joseph M Juran was deeply involved in management and particularly the management of quality, before a lot of us knew what quality was. He became closely involved with the Australian Organisation for Quality back in AOQs formative years when it was known as the Australian Organisation for Quality Control in the late 1960’s. Dr Juran made several visits to Australia, running successful seminars under the banner of AOQC. Through this and other means he made an outstanding contribution to the development of AOQC and the stimulation of many Australian organisations to come to grips with what Quality really means and how to achieve it.

You can see, therefore, that the application of Joseph Juran’s name to this award provides a yardstick against which can be measured truly outstanding efforts in quality management. On the one hand, those who achieve this award deserve it. On the other hand, they are honoured by being associated in this way with the name Juran. Click for rules.  See nomination form below.

Kevin Foley Award
To recognise persons who have made a notable contribution to Australian quality practice through publication of a body of work (a minimum of ten original items) on quality or related topics. This may include and is not limited to books, research articles, web based material and training materials. Click for rules. See nomination form below.

Shilkin Award
Joe Shilkin was one of the pioneers of the Australian Organisation for Quality in Victoria.

Joe Shilkin was one of the pioneers of the Australian Organisation for Quality in Victoria. He wrote and lectured about quality.

It is therefore quite appropriate that this award is named after Joe, as its two-fold purpose is:

To recognise persons who have made a notable contribution to Australian quality practice through publication of an original paper on quality or related topics.
and
To encourage AOQ member's careers in quality, to develop their written communications skills and to disseminate their knowledge of quality technology for the benefit of others. Click for rules. See nomination form below.

All award nominees are evaluated by a committee consisting of representatives from the AOQ and business or research establishment as relevant.

AWARD NOMINATION FORM

For all Awards, complete the Microsoft Word form electronically, print and sign. You may save it to your local computer if you wish.
Click for nomination form

Nominations must be in the hands of
The Secretary
Australian Organisation for Quality Inc
Suite 6 Innovation House,
Mawson Lakes.
SA. 5095
by 30th August, in each year.

Awards shall be presented at a National Conference of AOQ Inc or on some other suitable occasion.

Personal Awardees

J M Juran Medal

1975 Sir Walter Scott
1977 Merv Burt
1979 Joe Shilkin
1980 Ray Donnon
1981 Philip Richardson
1981 Ralph Odlum
1983 Chris Brendon
1984 Ken Sheahan
1985 Keith Stanton
1987 Des Simmons
1988 Garth Rymer
1990 Ron Crossling
1991 Bob Woodward
1992 Anne Nicholson
1993 Ron Laver
1994 Lou Magritzer
1996 Lance Andrews
1996 Peter Knapp
1996 Roy Fox
1997 Paul Broekhuizen
1998 Kris Boyapati
1998 Tony Pilli
2001 Darryl Yaniuk
2005 Shan Ruprai
2007 Jeff Ryall
2008 Mike McLean

Kevin Foley Award

2005 Bill Fenner

Shilkin Award

2005 Ron Chapman

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Last updated by Craig Ottaway 14 November 2008