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.
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-time winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards.
Our partnership
“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.”
Will North, lead producer, Engineering Matters, shared: “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.
“Engineers Without Borders UK has inspired generations of engineers for more than 20 years. The organisation 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. As we seek to champion the engineers who make the world a better place with the Engineering Matters Awards, Engineers Without Borders UK is an ideal partner.”
Awards details
The award categories are: Net Zero champion; Diversity & Inclusion champion; Sustainability champion; Health & Safety champion; Environment champion; Community champion; and Innovation champion.
“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.
