Graduate helps launch Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
ACE graduate Angela Crowther helped launch the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which will be the 'Nobel Prize' for outstanding advances in engineering.
Angela was representing young engineers at the launch, where she met Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Angela is a structural engineer with Expedition Engineering, and a President's Apprentice in the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Prime Minister David Cameron said of the prize:
"We want to rebalance the economy so that Britain makes things again - high-skilled high-value manufacturing and engineering should be a central part of our long term future. I hope this prize will go some way to inspire and excite young people about engineering, so that they dream of becoming engineers as they once did in the age of Stephenson and Brunel."
Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering Professor Tim Ibell said:
"We are immensely proud to see graduates like Angela playing such a big part in the engineering profession. Holder of an "Engineering Leadership Award" from the Royal Academy of Engineering, she is not the first ACE graduate to be a President's Apprentice. To say that Angela is outstanding among so many excellent Bath graduates is a great accolade. Who knows, perhaps a Bath graduate might win the "Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering" one day".
