News 2012

Young Engineer of the Year Award: WES Prize winner 2011
Friday 27th January 2012

This year's winner of the Women's Engineering Society Prize at the Young Engineer of the Year Award 2011 ceremony has been announced as Kelly Walker.

WES honours young female talent in engineering by presenting the Women's Engineering Society Prize to the runner up of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.

Kelly is part of a pan-European team of engineers that work alongside academia, and is responsible for the provision of both specialist and general technical consultancy to E.ON’s coal and oil power stations throughout Europe. She’s also become a specialist on Low NOx systems and biomass co-firing.

One of the areas she is focusing on currently is looking at coal and oil power stations that are coming to the end of their useful life or are being shut down due to emissions, and converting them to biomass. During her later years at university Kelly began to focus on the area of biomass and feels that thanks to this, she can have a strong influence on such projects.

Kelly’s passion to promote sustainability isn’t confined to the workplace however. She recently joined the STEM Ambassador programme and in 2012 will begin going into schools to talk to pupils.

Read Kelly's story.

More information about the Young Engineer of the Year Award.