Led by the Gadget Show’s Georgie Barrat, a selection of photos have been chosen to challenge public misconceptions of engineering.
To celebrate Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has today announced the winners of its annual photography competition in a bid to challenge misconceptions of engineering and demonstrate the ingenuity, breadth and vibrancy of the profession.
Supported by Amateur Photographer magazine, the Engineering & Technology Photographer of the Year 2018 was launched earlier in the year and was open to any photograph of an engineering-related subject that captures the dynamic, creative and progressive face of engineering and engineers today.
The IET received over 400 photos from young people and adults across the world, who submitted photos to five categories: Design and Production; Digital; Environment and Energy; Structures and Transport. Winners include:
“We launched our photography competition again this year to help banish this outdated image and we received some brilliant photographs from across the world – I’d like to congratulate our winners and highly commended entrants.”
Gadget Show host and judge Georgie Barrat, added: “The image of engineering in the media is really outdated and doesn’t reflect how exciting, creative and varied engineering careers can be – and this certainly won’t attract the next generation of talent, especially girls. We’ve selected some fantastic images that show first-hand how varied, exciting and life changing engineering really is.”
To coincide with Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (5-9 November), which is a nationwide initiative that focuses on changing the image of engineering, the winning and highly commended photos will be featured at the British Science Museum for a short exhibition and then placed at the IET’s London HQ, Savoy Place.
The overall winner was announced as Mike Glendinning for his photo ‘Engineers are hot stuff’, which captures an engineer in the environmental testing facility at Leonardo in Edinburgh. The facility provides extreme environmental testing on complex electronic systems to check they are ready for real world use.
To view the winning photographs, please visit the IET Engineering & Technology Photographer of the Year 2018 website. https://events.theiet.org/photo-competition/winners.cfm