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The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) has launched this year’s edition of its annual Create the Trophy competition. The QEPrize is the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, celebrating bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation that’s of global benefit to humanity. The Create the Trophy competition gives young designers the opportunity to get involved … [Read more...] about The Create the Trophy competition is now open

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) has announced the second webinar in its Building World Class Teams workshop, entitled Building World Class Teams: Retention. In its previous webinar, the RAE addressed the importance of recruiting inclusively to avoid issues such as replicant hiring and affinity bias. Now it’s looking at how to build world-class teams outside the … [Read more...] about Royal Academy of Engineering announces new webinar

Sustainable design and engineering firm Stantec has acquired Hydrock, a 950-person integrated engineering design firm headquartered in Bristol. Founded in 1995, Hydrock has a nationwide presence, with 22 UK locations and experience providing sustainable solutions for major projects across the country’s public and private sectors. The company has extensive capabilities in … [Read more...] about Stantec acquires UK integrated engineering design firm Hydrock

Manufacturing specialist Get It Made has announced the launch of its 2024 grant to help encourage the next generation of women in UK engineering by taking female-led organisations to the next level. Launched to mark International Women’s Day, the initiative has been set up to encourage and support projects being driven by female-founded or female-led engineering, design, … [Read more...] about Get it Made announces 2024 grant for women in business

Three young women engineers have been recognised at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards. Titi Oliyide (32; pictured above), the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year, is a senior process safety engineer at Supercritical Solutions, where she provides technical process safety expertise for innovative hydrogen-production … [Read more...] about Outstanding women celebrated at Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards