September 2022: Master Audrey Canning
What was expected to be an ordinarily busy month, became quite extraordinary. The month started in what I now realise is a traditional manner, with an invitation to attend the Glasgow in London Dinner, to promote the relationship between the London Livery Companies and their…
A New £20,000 Prize for Innovative Engineering applied to the Alleviation of Poverty
The Worshipful Company of Engineers in co-operation with UK-based charity Tech4All, are offering an award for the most creative engineering-based solutions to the alleviation of poverty. The award is intended to encourage engineers to use their skills and expertise to create solutions to alleviate the…
Intercompany Livery Halls Walk
Middle Warden Dolores Byrne and Clerk David Swann completed the Intercompany Livery Halls Walk on 5 September 2022. Starting at HQS Wellington we walked, talked, listened and enjoyed the brief historical background on each of the 39 Livery Halls we visited on our 10 km…
New 2022 Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows Revealed
The Master, Wardens, Court of Assistants and all members of the Company congratulate member of the Livery Dawn Bonfield MBE on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). The Academy’s summary of its new Fellow states: “Dawn Bonfield MBE has…
August 2022: Master Audrey Canning
August is traditionally a quiet month in Livery circles and indeed I have found time for some well needed R&R – though most of my free time has been spent putting the finishing touches to the September ‘Masters Out of Town’. But it hasn’t been…
MacRobert Award for Engineering 2022
The Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award is the premier prize for UK innovation in engineering. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of engineering and the role of engineers and scientists in contributing to national prosperity and international prestige. It is awarded annually for an…
Affiliates Engineering Awards 2022
HMS PRINCE OF WALES AWARDS The aircraft carrier HMS PRINCE OF WALES is affiliated to the Worshipful Company of Engineers, which, jointly with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology supports the Vice Admiral Wildish Memorial Prize for Engineering Innovation and The Commander Marine…
Services Engineering Awards 2022
Undergraduate Award 2022 Awarded to an officer graduating from the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS) who has achieved outstanding academic performance and demonstrated clear leadership and commitment to a professional engineering career in the Armed Forces. Abigail Hallett is a graduate of Aston University where…
Engineering Horizons Bursary Winners, 2021-22
Engineering Horizons Bursaries were awarded for the first time in 2016. In that year the Engineers Trust supported 5 Horizons Bursaries through the IET, aimed at students or apprentices who may face, or have faced, challenges or personal obstacles and are UK residents. Four Horizon…
Young Engineers of the Year, 2022
The RAEng/Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year competition, awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering with support from the Worshipful Company of Engineers, offers five prizes of £3,000 to early career engineers in full time higher education, research or industrial employment whose achievements are…