Let's celebrate engineers

Recently came across the Queen Elizabeth Prize for engineering in the news http://www.qeprize.org/
and I'm a big fan.

we need to celebrate our engineers and support the next generation(s) coming through. Our economy depends on them and many of our great discoveries are thanks to them. Often the scientists get the glory, but would they have found the Higgs-Boson at CERN without the engineers to build it? Would man have walked on the moon without the engineers to build the craft to get there? Would the Mars Rover be sending messages back? Would I be able to write this blog or someone else read it? of course not!

Engineers create the very building blocks of useful tech around us and we often take that for granted. Which is a shame when you consider how much we celebrate some so called 'celebrities' that contribute far less of meaning to our world.

let's not forget too that Britain has a proud engineering heritage, we have created amazing things like the London Underground, The London sewer system, the first locomotives, ThrusstSCC the fastest car in the world, the oldest windmill in the world and so much more.

So this prize is a great thing - recognition at last for those that don't always get recognised for making the world around them do just that - 'work'.