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Emerging Engineers Award

Emerging Engineers Award

The award creates an opportunity for ICE student and graduate members and apprentices at these grades or holding professionally qualified membership as IEng MICE or EngTech MICE and continuing on their apprenticeship, to showcase their knowledge and talent to the wider civil engineering community.

Entering the competition

The award gives members the opportunity to enhance their written and verbal presentation skills, showcase their work and enhance continuing professional development, particularly in support of professional review preparation.

The ability to communicate technical concepts in a clear manner to a varied audience is a key skill for civil engineers, and this competition provides opportunity to enhance online and/or in person presentation skills.

There is also opportunity to be selected for publication of the winning paper in one of the ICE technical journals.

There are prizes for regional winners and the overall winner receives a cash prize and the prestigious Institution Medal.

Heats take place across the ICE regions with the final selection of three papers for the overall Emerging Engineers Award final in October each year.

2025 regional dates

UK regional heat prize money:

  • 1st place: £250
  • 2nd place: £150
  • 3rd place: £100

East Midlands

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

East of England

The competition has not yet opened for 2025.

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

London

  • Entries have closed for 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 23 May 2025 
  • Regional heat held (online): 05 June 2025 
  • Winner announced: 06 June 2025 

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

North East

  • Open for synopses (400 words): 31 March - 09 May 2025
  • Finalists notified: 16 May 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 30 May 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 24 June 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

North West

The competition is not running in 2025.

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Northern Ireland

The competition has completed for 2025. Entries for 2026 will open in the autumn.

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Scotland

  • Entries have closed for 2025.
  • Finalists notified: 25 April 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 23 May 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 05 June 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

South East England

  • Open for synopses (400 words): 10 March - 09 May 2025
  • Finalists notified: 16 May 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 13 June 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 26 June 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

South West

  • Entries have closed for 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 06 May 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 05 June 2025
  • Winner announced: 18 June 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Wales

  • Synopsis (400 words) deadline: 11 May 2025
  • Finalists notified: 23 May 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 06 June 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 13 June 2025 

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

West Midlands

  • Entries have closed for 2025
  • Finalists notified: 22 April 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 16 May 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 29 May 2025
  • Winner announced: 30 May 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Yorkshire and Humber

  • Entries have closed for 2025
  • Finalists notified: 09 May 2025
  • Submission of final papers: 30 May 2025
  • Regional heat held (online): 26 June 2025

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Middle East and North Africa

Prizes for MENA:

  • 1st Prize: AED 2,500 (equivalent in local currency)
  • 2nd Prize: AED 1,750 (equivalent in local currency)
  • 3rd Prize: AED 1,250 (equivalent in local currency)
  • 4th Prize: AED 1,000 (equivalent in local currency)
  • 5th Prize: AED 750 (equivalent in local currency)

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Ontario, Canada

  • Entries have closed for 2025
  • Short list of papers for presentation: 28 April 2025
  • Final regional awards announced: 15 June 2025
  • ICE Ontario papers submitted for ICE global competition: 01 July 2025

For information about entry criteria and prizes, download the information pack

Download the pack

For enquiries please email [email protected]

Republic of Ireland

  • Abstract submission (400-word synopsis) deadline: 07 July 2025
  • Submission of full-length papers (2,000–4,000 words) by shortlisted applicants: 04 August 2025
  • Paper presentation by finalists during the regional final: 22 August 2025
  • Regional winner announced: 01 September 2025
  • International competition: TBC October 2025

Regional awards and prizes:

  • Regional winner: €150, a winning certificate and an invitation to the ICE Republic of Ireland Annual Dinner
  • Regional finalist: a shortlist certificate

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Hong Kong

This competition has ended for 2025.

Prizes for Hong Kong

  • Champion – HKD $2,000 and a certificate
  • First runner-up – HKD $1,500 and a certificate
  • Second runner-up – HKD $1,000 and a certificate
  • Merit – HKD $500 and a certificate
  • Shortlisted – a certificate

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Africa

The Emerging Engineers Award does not currently run in this region. If you are interested in running the competition, please email [email protected]

Americas, Australasia, Europe, East Asia, South Asia and South East Asia

The competition is not running in 2025.

For enquiries please email: [email protected]

Our 2025 award winners

Nothern Ireland winner

Timothy McCaughey (Apprentice Civil Engineer Technician, Translink) has been awarded the NI 2025 Emerging Engineer title.

Timothy impressed judges with the presentation of his paper RAAC – the Crumbling Concrete Crisis at the regional final held on 31 March 2025.

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