SEMTA'S ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME - BEST OF BRITISH
26/11/2013 Enginuity
The Best of British Engineering - from cutting edge contemporaries to famous figures from our industrial heritage - are to be celebrated in a pioneering new project.Semta's Engineering Hall of Fame is designed to ensure that great British engineers of the 21st Century are recognised to be just as important and influential as their illustrious prede-cessors.
Ten Nineteenth and Twentieth Century engineers - selected by a panel of luminaries - and one contemporary counterpart - to be voted on by the industry - are to be invested into the Semta Hall of Fame at a ceremony in London in February (12th) - during the Semta Skills Awards.
A contemporary great British engineer will be invested in the Semta Hall of Fame each year.
Sarah Sillars OBE, CEO of Semta, the employer-led body engineering skills for the future, said: "Britain's engineers are still the best in the World - and we will be putting them on the World stage to take a bow alongside their illustrious predecessors.
"There seems to be a consensus that the best days of British engineering are behind us - we say not so.
"Semta is working tirelessly to ensure that great British businesses have enough great British engineers - and we are making significant inroads to filling the skills gap.
"The Semta Skills Awards will shine the spotlight on those scaling great heights in modern Britain and those that have done so down the centuries - with the aim of inspiring the next generation of engineering talent to do so in the future."
Nominations to include a contemporary great British engineer on the shortlist can be made by email at semta@ontapcommunications.com until December 20 2013. Voting for the final winner, taken from a shortlist of five chosen by Semta, will begin online (www.semta.org.uk) on January 6th 2014.
The first ten members of the Engineering Hall of Fame are:
John Rennie (1761-1821)
George Stephenson (1781-1848)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891)
Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907)
Barnes Wallis (1887-1979)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1848-1945)
Dame Caroline Haslett (1895-1957)
Verena Holmes (1889-1964)
Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996)
For more information, please visit: www.semta.org.uk/hall-of-fame
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