The Women’s Engineering Society (
www.wes.org.uk) has announced Madeleine Jones of Sellafield Ltd the winner of the
Karen Burt Award 2017.
This annual award for a newly chartered woman engineer — now in its 19th year — acknowledges the candidate’s “excellence and potential in the practice of engineering, highlights the importance of Chartered status and recognises contributions made by the candidate to the promotion of the engineering profession”.
Sally Sudworth, chairman of the judges, said: “The judges were particularly impressed with the work that Ms Jones has undertaken in implementing improvements to the Magnox facility at Sellafield. Her passion for her work came across very clearly.
“Her role as a student ambassador in promoting engineering to school children is impressive, as is her mentoring of engineering graduates at Sellafield.
“Furthermore, Ms Jones’s support for her professional body — the Institution of Chemical Engineers — is impressive, as was her involvement in a BBC documentary about Sellafield to help promote engineering and the nuclear industry.
“The panel was also impressed with her active role on the industry advisory board for the engineering and applied science department at Aston University.”