Still time to enter Australia’s most innovative engineers Monday, 27 February 2017

Engineers Australia and create magazine are currently preparing this year's listing of Australia’s most innovative engineers, to be published in the July issue of create. The closing date for entries has been extended till 10 March, 2017 to cope with the high interest in the list.

We will be recognising outstanding engineers who have made noteworthy contributions to the community, the industry, and the profession.

Engineers can nominate themselves or be nominated by others and they do not need to be members of Engineers Australia. Nominations are open to all engineers working in Australia and Australian engineers working overseas. Any technology, project or product mentioned must have been developed, commenced or completed during the period 2015-2017.

There will be a number of different categories under which people can enter including Academia & Research, Building & Construction, Community, Consulting, Electronics Software & Communications, Manufacturing & Automation, Mining Oil & Gas, Utilities, and General Industry. There will also be a Young Engineer category, for which entrants must be aged 35 or under on June 30, 2017.

If you are concerned about nominating because of confidentiality issues, you can request that proprietary details of your innovation not be published and the information you provide can be broadly descriptive.

There will be no further extensions after this date as we need to start the judging process so make sure you get your entry in now

Details on how to nominate can be found at the website: e-award.com.au/2017/mostinnovativeengineers/