Nominations are now open for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) – the biggest and most prestigious international engineering prize which celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.
This international £1 million prize, aims to raise the public profile of engineering and inspire young people to take up the challenges of the future and become engineers. The QEPrize was launched in 2011 to address the need for more engineers and to celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s engineers. There is no Nobel Prize for engineering, the QEPrize aspires to fill this void, giving engineers the recognition they deserve. The QEPrize is awarded biennially and the search for the winner(s) will demonstrate the importance of engineering to society across the world.
Coinciding with the opening of nominations is the launch of an international network of young engineers – QEPrize Ambassadors – who will evangelise about engineering and inspire the next generation to become engineers and create the future. Supporting the QEPrize Ambassadors will be a new QEPrize website – ‘create the future’ dedicated to finding interesting and exciting examples of engineering, and profiling the amazing work that engineers do.
The five inaugural winners of the QEPrize, awarded in 2013 by HM The Queen, were Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf and Louis Pouzin who were recognised for their contributions to the protocols that make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for inventing the World Wide Web and Marc Andreessen who, with colleagues, wrote the Mosaic browser.
The QEPrize is the result of a growing realisation in the worlds of business, engineering and politics of the need for a pioneering initiative to focus attention on engineering worldwide.
The QEPrize is managed by a charitable corporation, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, chaired by Lord Browne of Madingley FREng FRS. The QEPrize is supported by corporate donors: major engineering companies whose commitment to the objectives of the prize has made the QEPrize possible.
The founding donors are: BAE Systems, BG Group, BP, GlaxoSmithKline, Jaguar Land Rover, National Grid, Shell, Siemens, Sony, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services and Toshiba. The Nissan Motor Company became a donor in January 2014.
The QEPrize is run on behalf of the QEPrize Foundation, by a team based Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.
Nominations can be made in two ways
You can suggest a person or an innovation, or if you have more detailed information on the nominee you can make a full nomination. All suggestions and nominations will be provided to the judges.
Before you make a nomination you need to have considered how the nominee/s meet the criteria, their contact details and those of suitable referees. Please see Prize rules and conditions
Nominations can now be submitted for the next Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.Nominations close at 12.00pm BST on 14 July 2014.
