The Royal Academy of Engineering has renewed its call for entries for this year’s Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Create the Trophy competition. The deadline is now looming, with only three weeks left for young designers to enter the competition. The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) is the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, celebrating bold, … [Read more...] about Time running out for Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering’s Create the Trophy competition entries
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James Dyson Award announces global winners
The James Dyson Award has revealed its two 2025 global winners, each receiving S$50,700 for their inventions, which advance accurate water quality monitoring and improve life with Parkinson’s disease. The global Sustainability Award winner, WaterSense, was invented by Filip Budny from Poland, a PhD candidate in nanotechnology at Warsaw University of Technology. An autonomous … [Read more...] about James Dyson Award announces global winners
Milton Keynes apprentices take home national engineering award
A team of apprentices from Niftylift in Milton Keynes has won the 2025 IMechE Apprentice Automation Challenge (AAC), marking the company’s second consecutive victory in the prestigious national competition. Now in its 11th year, the annual engineering competition has been steadily growing in popularity, with a record 17 apprentice teams joining to demonstrate a wide variety … [Read more...] about Milton Keynes apprentices take home national engineering award
Designing immersive learning to inspire girls in technology
A project designed by a student in the Design Programme at the University of Auckland is empowering girls in New Zealand and Sri Lanka to see themselves in technology careers. ‘If you can see it, you can be it.’ That’s the ethos behind the new research project, which uses extended reality (XR) – a technology that blends virtual, augmented and mixed reality – to explore how … [Read more...] about Designing immersive learning to inspire girls in technology
IOM3 publishes joint report with IChemE and RSC on skills shortages and the circular economy
The Institute of Materials, Mineral & Mining (IOM3) has joined with the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to publish a report highlighting the UK’s skills gaps and the challenges that the nation faces in developing the workforce required to deliver a successful circular economy, as well as setting out steps to address those … [Read more...] about IOM3 publishes joint report with IChemE and RSC on skills shortages and the circular economy