AWE Defence Industry Early Careers Engineering Prize

We are pleased to announce that, following the success of previous years, the Worshipful Company of Engineers, Engineers Trust once again seeks nominations that recognise and celebrate a wide variety of defence engineering innovations and achievements across all defence industry sectors of the profession.

For the AWE Defence Industry Early Careers Engineering Prize, applications should be limited to work conducted within the last two years by those in the early stages of their engineering career (post further/higher education, apprenticeship, career returners or following a career change).

The winning application will receive a prize of £1200 along with a framed certificate. They will be invited to attend the Worshipful Company of Engineers Annual Awards Ceremony to be held in June 2025 (exact date to be confirmed) at Carpenter’s Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2JJ, to be presented with the prize.

Award Criteria

You will be asked to explain how the nominated innovation meets the judging criteria of:

• positive impact to the efficacy or safety of the frontline members of the armed forces;

• or financial savings to the Ministry of Defence;

• or benefit to the engineering community and/or defence industry

You will need to identify the engineer or engineers responsible for the work and provide two referees who are sufficiently knowledgeable to support the nomination. Whilst a classified project would not be excluded, per se, please ensure that the Ministry of Defence or other suitable organisation is able formally to approve the release of information for general publication for prize administration, judging and publicity, prior to the application. Although not encouraged, by exception an additional classified annexe to the submission may be considered by specific arrangement with the prize administrators.

Eligibility

Any organisation, whether in the private, public or charity sectors, may apply for the award. Although the ultimate ownership of the organisation and the nationality of the nominated individuals are not relevant, the innovation, impact, efficacy or safety, financial savings and benefit to defence engineering should be key areas of the submission must have a substantial UK content. The organisation must nominate no more than five individuals who were the major contributors to the defence engineering project as part of the submission.

If you’re interested, please fill out this form, and email it to: [email protected]. Closing date for applications is 28 March 2025.