Reby Media has welcomed two new partners for the 2025 Engineering Matters Awards. Engineers Without Borders UK and the Institution of Mechanical Engineering. The partners have helped shape the judging criteria for the awards, and will play a central role in judging entries.
The Engineering Matters Awards champion the engineers who make the world a better place. Whether it’s a transformative project, a pioneering innovation, or exemplary leadership, the Engineering Matters Awards offers the perfect platform to highlight engineering excellence, with all gold winners featuring in their own dedicated episode.
The IMechE supports the Engineering Matters Awards
“The IMechE and its mission of improving the world through engineering is well-aligned to the aims of the Engineering Matters Awards, which provides great examples of the positive social impact of engineering,” said Joyce Achampong, the Institution’s Associate Director of Impact.
“The nominees, winners and their projects show that there is much more to engineering than the stereotypical cars or trains and that engineering continues to have a crucial role in developing innovative solutions that address global challenges. I urge engineers of all industries to consider their projects for a nomination and I look forward to reading the longlist in the Autumn”
EWB UK supports the Engineering Matters Awards
“The assessment criteria for the Engineering Matters Awards include the principles of global responsibility—responsible, purposeful, inclusive and regenerative—that we actively promote,” said John Kraus, CEO, Engineers Without Borders UK.
“The awards will help to demonstrate good practice examples for how engineering can play its full role in shaping a world in which we meet the needs of all people, while respecting the planet’s natural limits and restoring depleted ecosystems.”
Awards details
The award categories are: Net Zero champion; Diversity & Inclusion champion; Sustainability champion; Health & Safety champion; Environment champion; Community champion; and Innovation champion.
Will North, lead producer, Engineering Matters, said, “We welcome the support of our partners for the 2025 Engineering Matters Awards. The values and aims of our partners align well with those of the podcast and the awards—we all seek to celebrate engineering excellence, and the role of engineers in delivering a better world. Our partners have helped us develop the criteria for this year’s entries, and will be central to the judging process. We welcome their help in promoting awards entries.”
“We launched Engineering Matters to explore the impact of engineering on the world,” said North. “For more than five years, our weekly episodes have celebrated the work of engineers. We have documented how engineers are helping build resilience to climate change, and steering a course through the energy transition. We’ve described the challenges of housing a rapidly growing and urbanising population. We’ve heard directly from engineers as they respond to crises like war, natural disaster, and Covid.
“The Engineering Matters Awards were a natural extension to this mission. We launched the awards to highlight how engineers are responding to global challenges. The categories and judging criteria are designed to welcome entries from across the sector.”
Entries for the 2025 awards are open until 30 September 2024. Initial entry consists of a short interview with an Engineering Matters producer or researcher. Entrants can register their interest in taking part by filling out a simple entry form. A longlist of entries will be published on 31 October, with shortlisted entries announced in a series of Engineering Matters episodes in early December. The 2025 Engineering Matters Awards ceremony will take place at the Postal Museum in London, on 27 March.
About EWB UK, the IMechE, and Engineering Matters
North welcomed the support of the new Engineering Matters Awards partners. “As we seek to champion the engineers who make the world a better place with the Engineering Matters Awards, EWB UK and the IMechE are ideal partners.
“Engineers Without Borders UK has inspired generations of engineers for more than 20 years. EWB UK has demonstrated that engineering should be driven by its impact on communities, and has encouraged engineers to put global responsibility at the heart of their practice.
“Mechanical engineers reshaped the world during the industrial revolution, and they continue to power and propel humanity forward as we face the challenge of climate change and move through the energy transition. The IMechE plays a vital role in supporting the work of mechanical engineers, and in building a diverse profession that responds to the needs of clients and communities.
Engineering Matters is a weekly interview-based documentary podcast published by Reby Media. The podcast targets an audience of professional engineers across all disciplines, and their clients. Episodes reach more than 35,000 listeners in the UK, USA, and around the world. The podcast is a six times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers provides life-long learning opportunities for its 120,000 members, many of whom will achieve professionally registered status. The institution provides the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and innovate. It supports members and the wider engineering community to develop their skills throughout their careers. Thanks to this, engineers and technicians are developing outstanding technical solutions to many global challenges, showing how they strive to improve the world through engineering.
Engineers Without Borders UK is working to reach the tipping point to ensure a safe and just future for all. Part of a global movement of over 30 Engineers Without Borders organisations, EWB UK inspires, upskills and drives change in the engineering community and together takes action to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering.
