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…
2023 MacRobert Award Finalists
The MacRobert Award is the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation. The presentation of the Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Originally founded by the MacRobert Trust, the Award is now presented and run by…
International Women in Engineering Day
It’s International Women in Engineering Day #INWED23 Let’s celebrate the amazing work that women engineers worldwide do to support lives and livelihoods every day. Women in engineering who dare to be part of the solution are helping to build toward a brighter future for us…
King’s Birthday Honours List
Congratulations to member of the Livery, Professor Sir Iain Gray CBE FRSE FREng and Court Assistant Emeritus, Professor David Cooper MBE, who were both recognised in the recent King’s Birthday Honours List. Sir Ian was knighted for services to the Aerospace Industry and David receives…
AGM and Installation 2023
The Company gathered on 25th April 2023 at the Vintners’ Hall for its Annual General Meeting (Common Hall). This followed on from a meeting of the Court where the outgoing Master, Audrey Canning, took the chair. During the course of the AGM the new Master,…
Royal Society Fellowship for Julian Gardner
The Worshipful Company of Engineers congratulates member of the Freedom, Professor Julian William Gardner FRS FREng on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Julian Gardner is an outstanding scientist and engineer, who has pioneered and led the field of artificial olfactory sensors…
Jacqui Takes on a new Challenge
The Master, Wardens, Court of Assistants and all members of the Company congratulate member of the Livery Jacqui Murray on her new role as Chief Operating Officer at the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland. Jacqui will be ensuring delivery of ground-breaking manufacturing research and innovation…
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…