2025 Impact Report
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation Annual Report provides a summary of our year, highlighting the impact of the work we carried out with our Laureates, Judges, QEPrize Ambassadors, and with the wider engineering community.
“The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) celebrates the power of engineering to change the world. It shines a spotlight on pioneering engineers whose innovations tackle global challenges and improve lives, while also inspiring the next generation to see engineering as a dynamic and rewarding career. The QEPrize not only honours remarkable engineering achievements but also fuels the ideas and innovations of tomorrow.”
Chair, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation
Our Mission
In 2024/25 we continued to deliver our charitable aims of celebrating engineering visionaries and inspiring creative minds through our three main pillars:
Young People
The work our QEPrize Ambassadors do to inspire young people continues to play a vital part in delivering real impact.
Activities such as our Engineers Speed Mentoring for Girls event at the Science Museum, provide a unique opportunity for girls to meet our women QEPrize Ambassadors who represent a diverse section of the profession, and ask them questions about what an engineer does and quiz them about their pathways to engineering.
Our QEPrize Ambassador Network spans 20 counties and 100 organisations.
Engineers
By celebrating QEPrize Laureates and their work, we continue to inspire current and future engineers to innovate and tackle society’s biggest challenges.
In February we announced that seven engineers key to the development of Modern Machine Learning were the latest winners of the QEPrize. Through social media and print publications, there were 168k+ uses of the #QEPrize2025 hashtag and reached 20 different markets through the international coverage.
The Wider Public
Throughout the year we continued to inspire the wider public and demystify engineering by showing how it impacts our everyday lives and also how much fun it can be!
Our Engineers gallery, delivered in partnership with the Science Museum, continues to go from strength to strength. Since opening in June 2023 the gallery, which celebrates the engineering community and showcases a wide variety of key innovations through the global lens of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, has welcomed over one million visitors.
2025 QEPrize Laureates
Modern Machine Learning
In an event held at the Science Museum, in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and over 250 invited guests, Lord Vallance announced that the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering would be awarded to seven engineers responsible for seminal contributions to the advancement of Modern Machine Learning, a foundational component driving progress in artificial intelligence (AI).
Watch the winner announcement
Create the Trophy Competition
The 2025 Create the Trophy Competition received entries from 24 countries around the world. The winning design submitted by Prerak Bothra was chosen by the judges for its considered structure, which they felt really embodied the essence of engineering.
Prerak is a 24-year-old design student from India. His design was inspired by the values of the QEPrize: innovation, global impact and excellence. The central core symbolises balance, stability and unity, while also echoing the QEPrize logo of three horizontal lines. Prerak hoped to capture the prestige, innovation and the transformative power of engineering with his trophy design. As someone deeply curious about how design and engineering can shape the world, he believes the Create the Trophy Competition “offers an incredible opportunity to showcase my skills and ideas on a global stage”.
Engineers Speed Mentoring for Girls
This event saw twelve of our brilliant women QEPrize Ambassadors share personal stories, career insights, and practical engineering advice, with two groups of Year 8 (aged 12 and 13) students. The girls, from two schools in London, left energised, informed, and more excited than ever about where engineering could take them.
Held in the inspiring Engineers gallery, the speed mentoring was timed to coincide with International Women in Engineering Day (INWED24) and promoted on QEPrize social media channels to raise the profile of both INWED and the QEPrize.
Public Engagement Campaigns
Recognising the growing influence of TikTok among our target audience, we decided to create content specifically for this platform as part of our outreach strategy. Traditional channels like LinkedIn are less likely to capture the attention of younger audiences, so in August, we launched a TikTok campaign to raise global awareness of the Create the Trophy Competition.
To help us connect more authentically with our audience, we partnered with Ruth Amos, inventor, author and content creator. Ruth’s insight and presence helped us reach a wider audience and bring a fresh, relatable energy to our messaging.