Editing Royal Academy of Engineering (section)

== Awards and prizes ==
* With the support of the [[Worshipful Company of Engineers]], the Academy manages the annual Royal Academy of Engineering [[MacRobert Award]], the premier prize for UK innovation in engineering. First presented in 1969, the award honours the winning company with a gold medal and the team members with a prize of £50,000.
* The Academy oversees the awarding of the [[Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering]] (QEPrize). The QEPrize is an international, £1 million engineering prize that "rewards and celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation that has been of global benefit to humanity". The objective of the prize is to "raise the public profile of engineering and to inspire young people to become engineers".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/other-awards/queen-elizabeth-prize-for-engineering|title=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering - Royal Academy of Engineering|website=Raeng.org.uk|access-date=7 September 2018}}</ref>
* The Academy's Sir George Macfarlane Medal is an annual award that "recognizes a UK engineer who has demonstrated excellence in the early stage of their career".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/individual-awards/sir-george-mac-farlane-award |title=Sir George Macfarlane Medal - Royal Academy of Engineering |website=www.raeng.org.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810042633/http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/individual-awards/sir-george-mac-farlane-award |archive-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[President's Medal (Royal Academy of Engineering)|President's Medal]]
* The [[Prince Philip Medal]], named after [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and "awarded periodically to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education."<ref>RAE: [http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/philip/default.htm Prince Philip Medal]</ref>
* The [[Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation]] has been awarded annually since 2014. In its first ten years it provided a million pounds of finance in addition to assistance with legal, IT and networking.<ref name=africa10/> The 2015 prize was won by Tanzanian Askwar Hilonga who had devised a novel water filter<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-06-02 |title=Tanzanian low-cost water filter wins innovation prize |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32973591 |access-date=2024-11-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* Chair in Emerging Technologies, a scheme providing long-term support to visionary researchers in developing technologies with potential to deliver benefits to the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2018/april/academy-funds-global-research-visionaries-to-advan|title=Academy funds global research visionaries to advance emerging technologies|date=10 April 2018|website=Royal Academy of Engineering|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref>
* Engineering Leadership Scholarship, awarded to engineering undergraduate engineering students in the UK with high potential for leadership in the sector.  Awardees undertake an accelerated personal development programme to assist awardees in becoming future leaders.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://raeng.org.uk/els | title=Engineering Leaders Scholarship }}</ref>