The gallery will feature illustrated stories from more than 60 engineers working in a broad range of industries, such as farming, fashion, robotics and medicine.
The museum said the exhibits, which will focus on winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), will attempt to “shine a light on their lives, motivations, thought processes, and what they do day to day”.
The stories will be presented in four sections: Bodies, Lives, Connections and Creation.
Bodies will look at how controlled drug delivery and surgical robots place people and their bodies at the heart of precision engineering practice.
In Lives, LED lighting and digital imaging sensors will illustrate how engineers work sustainably and attempt to minimise their ecological footprint.
Connections will focus on GPS, internet and web technologies and how engineering teams created new infrastructure for global information and communication systems.
The final section, Creating...