Metro celebrates future innovators Engineering Talent Awards 2024

Role models and innovators person been honoured astatine a prestigious ceremonial in London for their contributions wrong the engineering and exertion profession.

Recent postgraduate of the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kayleigh Poulter, won the Award for Overall Excellence successful Engineering astatine the Engineering Talent Awards 2024, sponsored by Metro.

Known for its committedness to LGBTQ+ rights, Metro.co.uk partnered with founders EqualEngineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering to assistance recognise those making the manufacture accessible to everyone.

Organised by EqualEngineers successful concern with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Metro, RED, and AIRBUS, the Engineering Talent Awards winners were revealed astatine a gala awards meal past week.

Engineering stars of the contiguous and aboriginal were joined by keynote speakers: Richard Hartley-Parkinson, Executive Editor of Metro and Founder and CEO of hosts EqualEngineers, Dr Mark McBride-Wright.

Kayleigh Poulter earned a BEng and an apprenticeship qualification astatine the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology.

For her last twelvemonth project, Kayleigh focused connected designing for accessibility, peculiarly for individuals with sensory sensitivity and neurodivergences. She conducted idiosyncratic trials and developed recommendations to marque Dyson products much accessible, a publication that has influenced her company’s plan processes.

Beyond her method work, Kayleigh has been an advocator for diverseness and inclusion.

During her clip astatine the Dyson Institute, she led initiatives similar LGBTQ+ day teas and played a captious relation successful improving enactment for neurodivergent and mental health needs.

Other winners included Matthew Walker, Technical Lead for Control of Reactivity astatine Rolls-Royce SMR, who took location the coveted Engineer of the Year prize aft his progressive enactment of Emergency Boron Injection System (EBIS) redeeming successful the bid of £10 cardinal per built powerfulness station.

Morgan Norcross, besides of Rolls-Royce SMR won the Engineering Apprentice of the Year for her inspiration enactment connected pushing for much dialog astir menopause and enhancing enactment available.

Rolls-Royce SMR dazzled again with different triumph successful Employee Network of the Year for BETA – Bringing Early Talent Alive, bringing their full awards to three, the astir of immoderate institution successful attendance.

Sarah Long, of AtkinsRéalis, was named Executive Leader of the Year with the Engineering Returner of the Year being Helen Povey from Ørsted.

Elsewhere, WSP were crowned Large Employer of the twelvemonth with the Small-Medium Enterprise of the twelvemonth being named The CCTV Company Ltd. Innovation of the Year was awarded to Duku for their Accessible EV Charger that was developed from the crushed up with aged and disabled drivers.

Universities were fixed the spotlight to radiance besides with The University of Central Lancashire lifting the Inclusion Programme of the Year grant for their EASE Zone (Entrepreneurship and Start-up for Engineers).

University of Sheffield’s Women successful Engineering winning Society of the Year; University Engineering Team of the Year being named arsenic Swansea University’s 50% for the Future successful the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and idiosyncratic awards being fixed to Nicole Jane Knowles of the University of Warwick arsenic Engineering Staff Member of the Year and Kailey Firmin was crowned Engineering Student of the Year for her enactment astatine the Wrexham University. 

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