I was invited to attend IChemE Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability at IChemE Head Office, Rugby.

Recognising new and emerging talent is hugely important. 2024 has seen a pilot of The IChemE Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability (YEAIS) which aims to celebrate the ideas and innovations emerging in the chemical engineering profession, supporting the IChemE’s vision of engineering a more sustainable world.

IChemE’s Strategy 28+ sets out the desire to work together to impact and contribute positively to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Young engineers, aged 18 to 30 across the UK were invited to submit an entry focussing on one of the following priority areas:

•Clean Energy and Climate Action
•Water and Sanitation
•Food, Health and Wellbeing
•Responsible Production, Innovation and Industry
•Quality Education, including Lifelong Learning
•Process Safety, including Major Hazards Management
•Digitalisation, including Cybersecurity