Prizes

Awards

• The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
  The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a new global award which celebrates outstanding advances in engineering that have created significant benefit to humanity. The £1 million Prize will be awarded to an individual or team of up to three people, of any nationality, directly responsible for advancing the positive application of engineering knowledge.
  

• The MacRobert Award
  The Academy presents the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK's premier award for innovation in engineering. The award is presented annually in June.
  

• The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award
  A prize fund has been established to identify entrepreneurial researchers, working in UK universities, in the field of electro-technology, who are at an early stage in their career. The award will be presented to an individual or team demonstrating considerable entrepreneurial promise and the potential to benefit the UK’s future prosperity.
  

• Major Projects Award
  This award recognises the contribution of an individual working as part of a team involved in a major engineering project that has substantial impact on society.
  

• Sustained Achievement Award
  Awarded to an engineer normally resident in the UK whose achievements have had a profound impact upon their engineering discipline. This Award applies particularly to those engineers who have not been recognised earlier in their careers for reasons such as the latency in the impact of their work or late disclosure due to national or commercial secrecy.

• The Sir George Macfarlane Award
  This Award recognises the potential of younger UK engineers, who have demonstrated excellence in the early stage of their career. This excellence is marked by a quality of leadership and/or technical and scientific attainment that is clearly seen to be outstanding by their employers and organisation.
  

Medals

The Academy awards a number of medals each year in recognition of excellence in engineering.

• Prince Philip Medal
  Awarded biennially to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education.

• President's Medal
  This is awarded, biennially, to an organisation or individual, that has contributed significantly to the Academy's aims and work through 'initiative in promoting excellence in engineering'.

• Sir Frank Whittle Medal
  The Medal is awarded to an engineer, normally resident in the UK, for outstanding and sustained achievement which has contributed to the well-being of the nation. The field of activity changes annually. In 2012 the medal will be awarded for Engineering Innovations in Sports Performance Engineering focusing on specialist equipment manufacture and instrumentation, and performance analysis.
  

• International Medal
  The International Medal is awarded occasionally to an individual, resident outside of the European Union, for his or her outstanding and sustained personal achievement in the broad field of engineering, including commercial or academic leadership or for specific products and/or projects.
  

• Silver Medal
  The Silver Medal was established in 1994 to recognise an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to British engineering, which is resulting in successful market exploitation, by an engineer working in the United Kingdom, with less than 22 years in full time employment or equivalent on 1 January in year of award and who will normally be Chartered.

• The Rooke Medal for the Public Promotion of Engineering
  Awarded to an individual, small team or organisation who has contributed to the Academy's aims and work through their initiative in promoting engineering to the public.

Brochure

• Awards and Medals Brochure (318KB)
  A Brochure on the Academy’s Awards and Medals is now available to be downloaded.