£1 million engineering prize welcomed
Harper Adams focussing on "smart" technologyAs the UK’s only higher education centre for agricultural engineering and off-road vehicle design, Harper Adams University College has welcomed the launch of The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. “This will help raise the profile of the engineering sector and show young people that society really values the work of engineers” says Professor Simon Blackmore, the new Head of Engineering at the University College. “With a record number of students entering engineering this year and the very high employment rate afterwards, we are playing our