The medal is awarded by the Institute to a person whose contribution to the technology of measurement and control is considered to be of outstanding merit. The award to Professor Sandoz was in recognition of his long-standing involvement with control engineering and the exploitation of condition monitoring and control engineering methods for batch processes.

The University assisted Professor Sandoz in creating several successful spin-out companies which commercialised his engineering achievements including Predictive Control Ltd, Control Technology Centre Ltd and more lately Perceptive Engineering Ltd.

 

As he collected the award Professor Sandoz said: “None of this would have been possible without the long-standing support from The University of Manchester and in particular from the various University companies, Vuman, Manchester Innovation and finally UMIP – and I would very much like to thank the University for that.”