Winner of Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering's 'Create the Trophy' Competition announced
08/10/2014 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Euan Fairholm from Edinburgh has won the 2014 Create the Trophy Competition, beating hundreds of UK hopefuls with his design The Golden Crown.Euan's design will be developed into a final form and presented by Her Majesty the Queen to the winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
20-year-old Euan, who is studying Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University, has also won £2,000.
The 2014 Create the Trophy Competition Winner, Euan, from Edinburgh said: 'It is a great honour to have my design selected to be the trophy for The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. I am both humbled and delighted to consider that something which I contributed to will be used to recognise such great and important achievements in engineering.'
This year, The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering invited the British public to help select the winner of the Create the Trophy competition. They were asked to view the nine shortlisted designs and vote for their favourite on Facebook. The people's vote was counted as the seventh judge on the Create the Trophy competition judging panel.
The Create the Trophy competition judges are leading figures in design, engineering and science.
Ian Blatchford (Chairman of judges) - Director, Science Museum
Sir John Sorrell - Chairman, University of Arts, London
Roma Agrawal - Roma Agrawal - Structural Engineer at WSP and Marks & Spencer 'Leading Lady'
Mark Miodownik - Materials scientist and broadcaster
David Rowan - Editor in Chief, Wired
Jennifer Leggett - Engineering student. Create the Trophy competition winner in 2013
Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum, where a three-year exhibition aimed at inspiring the next generation of engineers will open in December, and Chairman of the 'Create the Trophy' judging panel said: "Once again, this competition has shown the creativity of young people in the UK. Shortlisting the entries down to our nine finalists was not easy; nor was selecting the winner. However, the judges are all agreed that Euan's design best met the brief. We felt that his work illustrates our dependence on engineering and technology, and demonstrates the fact that modern engineering builds on the work of the past. His use of a crown in his design recognizes this as The Queen's Prize. He has produced a trophy that represents all that the Queen Elizabeth Prize stands for. We look forward to seeing the final trophy being presented to next year's QEPrize winner."
For more information, please contact:
Caroline Evans
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Tel: +44 20 7766 0661
Email: caroline.evans@qeprize.org
Web: www.qeprize.org
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