All five winners of the RAEng/Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year 2025 were announced at the Engineers Trust Awards Dinner in London on 9 June 2026. Awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and funded by the Worshipful Company of Engineers for ten years, five prizes of £3,000 are made to early career engineers in full time higher education, research or industrial employment whose achievements are recognised as outstanding. Additionally, the Academy’s Awards Committee selects an overall winner from these five awardees who receives the Academy’s Sir George Macfarlane Medal.

Dr Mahmoud Wagih is an educator, researcher and entrepreneur developing wireless power and sensing technologies that could pave the way to maintenance-free smart devices.

Mahmoud is the lead researcher in the Green Radio Frequency (RF)-Enabled Electronics Lab at the University of Glasgow, with research areas that span the full breadth of sustainable electronics systems, from component-level manufacturing to the role of radio frequency technologies in enabling more sustainable systems. Through their active projects around 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications have been published and over £16m has been raised in research funding from research councils, national labs, and industry partners.

He founded RX Watt, a Green RF-Enabled Electronics Lab spin-out which offers the first holistic solution for simultaneous wireless power and data transfer, with integrated sensing functionalities through their delivery of functional systems for battery-free and maintenance-free sensing systems applicable to industrial asset condition monitoring.  Mahmoud is the winner of the Sir George Macfarlane Medal.

Jack Biltcliffe started his engineering career at Dyson and Elvie, before joining the Washing Machine Project, which manufactures hand-cranked washing machines for use in the developing world. 

Jack has travelled to Uganda and Kenya to distribute machines and get feedback from users and then improved designs for performance and reliability. He used his previous experience at Dyson and Elvie to optimise design workflows and collaboration and has applied innovative CAD systems to dramatically increase production, from tens to thousands of units. At Dyson he founded a sustainability team to develop Life Cycle Assessments and guide product sustainability strategies. At Elvie, he helped redesign wireless breast pumps for the US insurance market to make them more accessible and cost-effective.

Andrei Feraru has developed and commercialised advanced wearable technology that has protected nearly 1,000 workers from hazardous vibrations exposure that lead to Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS).

His approach has even led the Health and Safety Executive to change their guidance on how HAV exposure can be measured, creating lasting benefits to worker well-being and efficiency.  He got the idea for the technology during a placement at Rolls-Royce Aerospace and devised a vibration health monitoring device, which became the foundation of Feraru Dynamics, the company he founded before graduating. His invention is patented in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe and has attracted £1 million in private equity investment, and his company has expanded to Canada and the USA. His innovative approach has led to multiple awards, from the British Safety Industry Federation Innovation Award to Highways England “Big Idea” Award.

Miguel Martinez-Paneda is an expert in structural dynamics, earthquake and wind engineering and has worked for two of the UK’s top design firms: Foster & Partners and Arup.

His path to becoming a structural engineer was unusual in that his first degree was in Architecture. That hasn’t hindered him from winning numerous design competitions and creating prize-winning designs for a series of iconic tall buildings around the world. He has made innovative contributions to research that have led to the development of a new damper design for super tall buildings that uses part of their own mass to dampen their movement and is awaiting patent approval. He has also convened academics from within the disciplines of Civil Engineering and Aeronautics with practitioners from industry to consider these new approaches to the design of tall buildings.

Dr Calvin Tsay is a leading interdisciplinary engineer at Imperial College, building new computing tools in optimisation and machine learning.

He is deploying these tools to tackle large-scale problems in energy systems and sustainability. He leads an independent research group that contributes industrially relevant research such as OMLT, an award-winning open-source software, and tools for green hydrogen system design. He has authored 50 peer-reviewed publications and collaborated with industry on energy flexibility and AI security and privacy. Calvin is an exceptional ambassador for engineering education, lecturing in the Girls Who ML programme and volunteering with the Great Exhibition Road Festival.

The 2025 winner of the George MacFarlane Medal was first announced at the Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner on 8 July 2025. The four other winners were announced after the Academy’s AGM on 23 September 2025.

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