Euan’s design will be developed into a final form and presented by Her Majesty the Queen to the winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
20-year-old Euan, who is studying Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University, has also won £2,000.
This year, The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering invited the British public to help select the winner of the Create the Trophy competition. They were asked to view the nine shortlisted designs and vote for their favourite on Facebook. The people’s vote was counted as the seventh judge on the Create the Trophy competition judging panel.
The Create the Trophy competition judges are leading figures in design, engineering and science, including:
Ian Blatchford (Chairman of judges) – Director, Science Museum
Sir John Sorrell – Chairman, University of Arts, London
Roma Agrawal – Roma Agrawal – Structural Engineer at WSP and Marks & Spencer ‘Leading Lady’
Mark Miodownik – Materials scientist and broadcaster
David Rowan – Editor in Chief, Wired
Jennifer Leggett – Engineering student. Create the Trophy competition winner in 2013
“Once again, this competition has shown the creativity of young people in the UK," said Ian Blatchford. "Shortlisting the entries down to our nine finalists was not easy; nor was selecting the winner. However, the judges are all agreed that Euan’s design best met the brief. We felt that his work illustrates our dependence on engineering and technology, and demonstrates the fact that modern engineering builds on the work of the past.
"His use of a crown in his design recognizes this as The Queen’s Prize. He has produced a trophy that represents all that the Queen Elizabeth Prize stands for. We look forward to seeing the final trophy being presented to next year’s QEPrize winner.”