Engineers recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list

Dr David Grant, Dawn Bonfield, Professor Danielle George, Keith Cochrane, Dr Eben Upton among those nominated

Dr David Grant, chairman of STEMNET, has been awarded a knighthood for services to engineering technology and skills in the UK in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Grant is a senior independent director at Gloucestershire-based precision engineering group Renishaw and IQE, the Cardiff-based specialist semiconductor firm, and a non-executive director of the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

He has also served as a vice-president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology; and from 2007 to 2012 was a vice-president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has been a council member of EPSRC and a governing board member of Innovate UK.

Sir Ian Wood, chairman of oil services firm Wood Group, was awarded the Knight Grand Cross after leading a review into how to maximise oil output from the North Sea.

Meanwhile, chairman of London’s Crossrail project Terry Morgan was also knighted. Morgan was appointed as Crossrail chairman in 2009 and chair of the HS2 College governing body in 2015.

Britain's first male astronaut was the first person to be honoured while in space, receiving the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for space research and scientific education.

CBEs were awarded to:

• Keith Cochrane, chief executive of the Weir Group, for services to business in Scotland
• Dr Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi, for services to Business and Education.

MBEs were awarded to:

• Professor Danielle George in recognition of her contribution to engineering through public engagement. She has worked tirelessly to bring science, technology and engineering to life, encouraging young people to start careers in science and engineering through a variety of engaging talks and citizen science experiments.
• Dawn Bonfield, chief executive of the Women’s Engineering Society, for services to the promotion of diversity in engineering
• Susan Bird, consultant acoustic engineer and lately partner of Bird Acoustics, for services to engineering and women in engineering in the UK and abroad.

OBEs were awarded to:

• Dr Antony Bannan, chief executive of Precision Technologies Group for services to the UK economy, international trade and inward investment
• Dr Roger Coates for services to nuclear safety and radiological protection
• Desmond Evans, chief executive of MAN Truck and Bus UK, for services to the motor industry
• Dr Philip Freedman, director and chairman of Nu Instruments, for services to the scientific instrumentation industry and to the economy in Wales
• Trevor Garlick, regional president of BP, for services to the oil and gas industry
• Dr Stephen Huntington, chief executive and chairman of HR Wallingford, for services to engineering and environmental hydraulics.