Engineering news
Nominations are now open for five new awards for UK engineers who have demonstrated excellence in the early stage of their careers.
Awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) with support from the Worshipful Company of Engineers, five prizes of £3,000 will be presented to early career engineers whose achievements are recognised as outstanding in their field. Nominations are open to engineers in full time higher education, research or industrial employment from any engineering discipline, who graduated from their first engineering degree within the last ten years.
In addition to the prize money and a certificate, one of the five winners will also be selected to receive the Academy’s Sir George Macfarlane Meda, in memory of Sir George Macfarlane (1916-2007), one of the founding fellows of the RAEng. The separate prize will be awarded to the winner who, in the view of the Academy’s Awards Committee, has most demonstrated outstanding leadership or technical attainment in their place of work.
Last year’s Sir George Macfarlane Medal was won by Dr Matthew Cole of the University of Cambridge, who has published extensively on the use of carbon nanotubes as field emission sources. Cole applied the knowledge gained from his research to co-found a start-up company that develops advanced X-ray emitters, which can be used in border control and medical diagnostics.
Announcing the new RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year awards, Nigel Perry, chair of the Academy Awards Committee, said: “We want to celebrate the many talented young engineers who are already demonstrating the hallmarks of being world leaders in the profession. I look forward to seeing nominations from across the diverse field of UK engineering.”
John Robinson, from the Worshipful Company of Engineers, added: “These awards will recognise some of the potential influencers of the future in our rapidly changing profession.”
Nominations for the prize should be made through the Royal Academy of Engineering website by 17 February 2016. The winners of the RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year awards, and the overall winner of the Sir George Macfarlane Medal, will be announced at the Academy’s annual Awards dinner in June.