Andrew Garrad CBE, Honorary Fellow, wins the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

New College's Honorary Fellow, Andrew Garrad CBE, has won the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at the Science Museum in London. The annual prize said that Garrad, together with Danish engineer Henrik Stiesdal, have “propelled global progress towards a net-zero future... advancing the design, manufacture and deployment of high-performance wind turbines".

Andrew Garrad created the BLADED computational design tool which has been used all over the world. It allows engineers to model a complicated turbine system in its entirety and to predict its behaviour.

In their announcement, the prize judges stated that:

"Over the past four decades, Stiesdal and Garrad have made seminal engineering inputs that – from demonstration to full-scale implementation – have resulted in a phenomenal increase in the size of individual wind turbines and the scale of the wind farms in which they are sited, as well as in their engineering and economic performance".

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is the world's leading award for engineers and engineering. The annual prize of £500,000 promotes excellence in engineering and celebrates engineering’s visionaries.

New College extends its congratulations to both Andrew and Henrik.