Dr Ivan Ling is assistant professor at University of Southampton, Malaysia, a member of the IET Young Professionals Committee, and also a past winner of the IET Global Challenge. He comments: “This is an exciting new category for the E&T Innovation Awards for 2021. E&T has identified seven critical tech and engineering challenges we need to tackle today to make tomorrow better. These are sustainability, mobility, switch to alternative energy sources, diversity, equality and inclusion, global family, trust and truth, and inspiration. With this award, we want to celebrate rising talents who are using engineering, science, and technology to accelerate societal development within these critical areas. They will be paving the way for future generations.”
Despite being in its inaugural year, the Award inspired an encouraging entry of 17 people and projects. “The judging panel was pleasantly surprised to receive so many entries, with technologies used...