Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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| Awarded for | Ground-breaking innovation in engineering which has been of global benefit to humanity. |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Presented by | The Queen Elizabeth Prize Foundation |
| First awarded | 2013 |
| Official website | qeprize |
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 Hundreds of millions of people a year across the world benefit from the technologies that rest on the work of Robert Langer., Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2015 |
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 £1 million Prize is awarded biennially in the name of Queen Elizabeth II.
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 presented to the creators of the Internet, the browser and the World Wide Web in 2013. The 2015 prize was awarded to Robert Langer, for his work in controlled-release large molecule drug delivery. The third prize was awarded on 1 February 2017 to Eric Fossum, George Smith, Nobukazu Teranishi and Michael Tompsett for research on digital imaging sensors.
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 QEPrize is funded by donations from the following international companies: BAE Systems, BP, GSK, Jaguar Land Rover, National Grid, Nissan Motor Corporation, Shell, Siemens UK, Sony, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel and Toshiba.
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