She is Ella Podmore (pictured), a materials engineer for super car maker McLaren Automotive.
“Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this [materials] department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further,” according to the IET.
Apprentice non-destructive examination engineer Denize Pilarita from BAE Systems Submarines received the Mary George Memorial Prize for Apprentices.
Shrouk El-Attar, an electronic engineer at woman-specific technology company Elvie, won the Women’s Engineering Society prize
Finalists included:
- Dr Melanie Jimenez, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.
- Neera Kukadia, project engineer at Transport for London.
- Bethany Probert, software engineer at Altran UK
Full details are available on the IET website (which is where the image above came from)