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The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Awarded forGround-breaking innovation in engineering which has been of global benefit to humanity.
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Presented byThe Queen Elizabeth Prize Foundation
First awarded2013
Websiteqeprize.org

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, also known as the QEPrize, is a global engineering prize that rewards and celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity. The objective of the QEPrize is to raise the public profile of engineering and to inspire young people to become engineers. The £1 million Prize is awarded in the name of Queen Elizabeth II.[1]

The prize was officially launched in November 2011 by a cross-party line up of the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband. The inaugural prize was awarded to a team of five engineers for their participation in the creation of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the Mosaic web browser.[2][3]

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation[edit]

The objective of the Queen Elizabeth Prize is to raise the public profile of engineering, and to inspire young people and engage them in engineering. It is run by a charitable company, limited by guarantee, called the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. The Foundation is chaired by Lord Browne of Madingley whose fellow trustees are:

Sir Mark Walport, the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, is an adviser to the Foundation.

The day-to-day running of the Prize is carried out by a team at the Royal Academy of Engineering, led by Caroline Evans.[4]

Donors[edit]

Selection process[edit]

The prize rewards an outstanding engineering-led advance that has produced tangible and widespread public benefit. This is judged on broad criteria, that includes the cultural impacts of the engineering. Nominations are encouraged from the public, from engineering and science academies, universities, research organisations and companies around the world. The only restriction is that self-nomination is not permitted, and that the prize not be awarded posthumously.[4]

The judging panel works from the information provided in the nomination, comments from referees and any additional information required in order to establish which nomination most fully meets the prize criteria. The panel uses the following criteria to select the winning nominations:

  1. What is it that this person has done (or up to three people have done) that is a ground-breaking innovation in engineering?
  2. In what way has this innovation been of global benefit to humanity?
  3. Is there anyone else who might claim to have had a pivotal role in this development?

2013 award[edit]

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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Winners, 2013

The inaugural prize was awarded to a team of five engineers who created the Internet and the World Wide Web. The Internet and the Web have revolutionised the way we communicate and enabled the creation of whole new industries. Today, a third of the world’s population use the Internet.

Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Louis Pouzin made seminal contributions to the protocols that together make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and vastly extended the use of the Internet beyond email and file transfer. Marc Andreessen, while a student and working with colleagues, wrote the mosaic browser, which was widely distributed and made the Web accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world, and triggered a huge number of applications.

The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of Princess Anne at the Royal Academy of Engineering on 18 March 2013.

On Tuesday 25 June 2013 the winners received their award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in front of an audience that included the three leaders of the UK’s main political parties, Queen Elizabeth Prize judges and a number of young engineers at Buckingham Palace. On the same day, the Lord Mayor hosted a lunch at the Guildhall in honour of the winners attended by Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.

The winners of the 2013 prize[edit]

Judging panel[edit]

The judging panel for the 2013 prize comprised:[4]

2015 award[edit]

The nomination period for the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering opened on 4 March 2014, and closes 14 July 2014 (12.00 BST).[6]

The judging panel for the 2015 prize comprises:

Create the Trophy Competition[edit]

2013[edit]

The 2013 winners each received a trophy designed by 17 year old Jennifer Leggett, who won a national competition that called for students to come up with a design capturing the essence of modern engineering. Her design was selected from a shortlist by a prestigious judging panel that included Science Museum director and Chair of judges, Ian Blatchford; architect, Dame Zaha Hadid; Director of the Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota; Design Museum director, Deyan Sudjic; and Engineer, Yewande Akinola.

Jennifer Leggett's tree-like trophy design symbolises the growth of engineering and represents the way in which all areas of engineering are interlinked. After winning the competition Jennifer Leggett was invited to spend the day with designer Thomas Heatherwick before the design was finalised. The 2013 trophy has been constructed out of a 3D printed resin that has been dipped in Nickel alloy. The tree-like trophy has some polished and some brushed modules while the base is sintered aluminium.

2015[edit]

Judges[edit]

  • Ian Blatchford (Chairman), Director of the Science Museum
  • Roma Agrawal, Structural Engineer at WSP and M&S Leading Lady
  • Mark Miodownik, Director of the Institute of Making, UCL
  • David Rowan, Editor-in-Chief, Wired UK
  • Sir John Sorrell, Chairman, University of the Arts, London

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Prize rules and conditions". QEPrize.org. The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Internet pioneers win engineering prize". BBC News. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Internet and Web pioneers win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering" (PDF) (Press release). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "QEPrize home page". The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  5. ^ Harrington, Ben (18 March 2013). "Internet team scoops Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering award for innovators". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  6. ^ "World's most prestigious engineering prize opens for nominations" (PDF) (Press release). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

External links[edit]


Category:British science and technology awards Category:Awards established in 2012 Category:Royal Academy of Engineering Category:Engineering awards Category:2011 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Elizabeth II

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