Who will you nominate?
Saturday 8 March was International Women’s Day, a celebration of women – past and present - across the globe, and in our everyday lives. As has become tradition, to mark the occasion we opened applications for our 2025 Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year awards on Saturday. But wait – this year there’s a twist!
For the first time ever, we will be enabling nominations for YWE. This means that if you know an exceptional woman engineer or apprentice who deserves recognition, all you need to do is share their name, email and organisation via the nomination link and they will be directly invited to apply.
Remember, there are four prizes that make up our YWE awards, each with their own criteria – click below to learn more about them.
The Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award
The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Prize
The Mary George Memorial Prize
The Gender Diversity Ambassador Award
Nominate here
Now that you’re clued up on the criteria, why not take some time ahead of applications opening to think about anyone in your life who would be a good fit. Then, nominate them via the link below!
Or, if you’d prefer to share the application link with someone without nominating, please use this direct link: The Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards (theiet.org)
Our 2024 YWE winner
In December of 2024, we were absolutely thrilled to award Marisa Kurimbokus our Young Woman Engineer of the Year title.
Marisa is a Chartered Engineer with a career spanning over a decade in product design and systems engineering within the automotive and power electronics industries, including Jaguar Land Rover, Triumph Motorcycles and Lyra Electronics.
In her work, she has led a multidisciplinary engineering design team and been responsible for all engineering activities, including delivery of projects, R&D, design, testing and prototyping. Marisa keenly supports engineers at all levels and STEM is a huge passion for her, fuelled by her lack of guidance and inspirational role models when she was a student.
She has been listed in the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Inventors and Innovators in 2022 for her work in net-zero and green technology.
If you missed last year’s ceremony, don’t worry – you can catch the whole event on demand via the link below.
The Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2024 (youtube.com)
