Engineering Alumni Medal

The Engineering Alumni Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Engineering Alumni Association. It is granted simply "For Achievement." High achievement is the common thread distinguishing those on the roll of past recipients of this Medal. In their diverse careers, all of these medal winners have demonstrated superior accomplishments and have responded with flair and excellence to the challenges that they have faced. They are outstanding role models for engineering students. Their attainments are seen as defining appropriate aspirations and professional values of all engineering alumni.

On the obverse side of the Medal is a simple but elegant diagram of a lever, a fulcrum and a terrestrial globe illustrating the relationship of "engineering" and "ingenuity" through the famous words of Archimedes:

"Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the earth."

His name and an abbreviated form of the quotation are given in Greek. On the reverse side of the Medal is a tree symbolizing the spread of education. Below this is the name, "University of Toronto Engineering Alumni," followed by the words, "For Achievement."

The Medal, first awarded in 1939, was designed by Emmanuel Otto Hahn. The dies were cut at the Royal Mint in England and the medals struck in Canada.

A bronze plaque listing the medal winners was installed in the Galbraith Building foyer in 1978 as the 50th Anniversary Project of the Class of 2T8.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Alumni Office.