Designed to inspire: Roma Agrawal wins The Academy's Rooke Award for public promotion of engineering
The Royal Academy of Engineering has Announced an Engineer and broadcaster, Roma Agrawal as the winner of the Academy's most prestigious awards in recognition of her tireless efforts to promote careers in the profession. The Rooke Award for public promotion of engineering, named after industrialist and past Academy President Sir Denis Rooke, honours people who have brought engineering to life for the public. Previous winners include TV engineering experts Professor Danielle George and Professor Mark Miodownik FREng. Roma will receive her award at the Academy Awards Dinner in London on Thursday 29 June. Roma, a 33 year-old chartered structural engineer, exudes enthusiasm for engineering and manages to combine broadcasting and promotional work with her full-time role as an associate director at AECOM. Having studied physics at the University of Oxford, she decided to do an MSc in structural engineering at Imperial College London, which set her on course for a career in c