Steven Lee wins the Water Engineering Award, 2023
Steven Lee is a project engineer working for Panton McLeod. His main role is in the project management and on-site operations of remote inspections and surveys of water assets such as reservoirs and aqueducts throughout the UK and Ireland. Steven joined Panton McLeod as a…
James Harvey, student at the University of Surrey, wins Cadzow Smith Award 2023
James Harvey is completing his fifth year of a MEng programme in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Surrey. Professor Bob Nichol, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, described James as an excellent student representative and student ambassador. These are roles that he has carried out…
Barney Shanks wins the 2023 Hawley Award for Net Zero Carbon Innovation for ‘Seratech’
Barney Shanks is a PhD researcher at Imperial College London who along with fellow researcher Sam Draper developed a novel way to capture waste CO2 and utilise it in the manufacture of a carbon-negative cement replacement material. Cement is a vital ingredient for making concrete…
Becky Maughan, IEng MIMechE wins the 2023 Engineers Trust Baroness Platt of Writtle Award
Becky Maughan was nominated by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Following her graduation from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Becky joined BAE System’s 18-month Accelerate Graduate Scheme, where she rapidly developed engineering expertise as an Aerodynamicist. On completing the Accelerate…
Young Engineers of the Year, 2023
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…
Livery Food Initiative
On Monday 6th March, on behalf of The Worshipful Company of Engineers Trust, Immediate Past Master Peter Blair-Fish attended the launch of the first Livery Food Initiative van. The Livery Food Initiative is a partnership between the Livery Charity Chairs Group and City Harvest which…
‘Just a Drop’ – Zandonda clean water project, Zambia
In late 2022, the Engineers Trust awarded the second Engineering Outreach Grant of £5,000 to Just A Drop for an engineering project that contributes to the relief of poverty in Zandonda, Zambia. The project will utilise the unique drilling method of a rotary mud drill that has…
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…
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…