The Railway Engineering Student Thesis award is offered annually to the author of an outstanding final year project, undertaken in Australia or New Zealand, on a topic in railway engineering. The project may be in any engineering discipline provided that it is the subject of railway engineering.
If an award is made it comprises a cash prize of $4,000, a commemorative plaque and one-year free membership of the RTSA. At its discretion the Awards Committee may agree up to two runners up awards made in any one year each comprising a cash prize of $2,000 together with one-year free membership of the RTSA.
