Modern engineering marvels fight for ‘immortality’

They are inventor and entrepreneur Sir James Dyson, mechanical engineer David Gow, electrical generation engineer Sam Etherington, inventor and entrepreneur Tim Morgan and Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president of design. The Hall of Fame is designed to ensure that great British engineers of the 21st Century are recognised to be just as important and influential as their illustrious predecessors. Ten 19th and 20th Century engineers who will also be invested in to the Semta Hall of Fame – having been selected by a panel of engineers – will be joined by one of the contemporary nominees who will be invested alongside them at a ceremony in London on 12 February during the inaugural Semta Skills Awards. Ann Watson, chief operating officer of Semta, the employer-led body engineering skills for the future, said: "Britain's engineers are still the best in the World – and we will be putting them on the World stage to take a bow alongside their illustrious predecessors. "We are blowing away the myth that the best days of British engineering are behind us - we say not so – ensuring that one of our five nominees achieves engineering 'immortality.'... "The Semta Skills Awards will shine the spotlight on those scaling great heights in modern Britain and those that have done so down the centuries – with the aim of inspiring the next generation of engineering talent to do so in the future." The public is invited to vote for the next resident of the Semta Hall of Fame online.