Applications now open for 2021 MacRobert Award
03/12/2020
The MacRobert Award, the UK’s premier award for engineering innovation, is the country’s longest-running and most prestigious prize for engineering innovation. It recognises outstanding engineering innovation combined with proven commercial success and tangible societal benefit. Winners receive a £50,000 cash prize, a gold medal and national acclaim.Applications are welcomed from right across the breadth of engineering, from small to large companies, as well as newcomers and those that are well established in their industries. Applications that showcase the diversity of talent supporting UK engineering innovation are encouraged.
Details on how and why to apply for the 2021 award can be found on the Royal Academy of Engineering website. Applications close on 31 January 2021.
This year’s winner was JCB, awarded in recognition of its development of the world’s first volume-produced fully electric digger, which significantly reduces carbon emissions as well as boasting zero exhaust emissions and very low noise levels.
Previous winners have included: the inaugural joint winners of 1969, Freeman, Fox and Partners for the Severn Bridge and Rolls-Royce for the Pegasus engine; EMI Ltd in 1972 for the CT scanner; Buro Happold in 1999 for the roof structure of the Millennium Dome; Touch Bionics for its i-LIMB prosthetic hand in 2008; and Raspberry Pi in 2018 for its microcomputer.
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