Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

| rowspan="5" |The Internet and the World Wide Web

|Robert Kahn

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| rowspan="5" |The inaugural prize was awarded to the five engineers responsible for the creation of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of Princess Anne on 18 March. The winners of the 2013 prize were:

• Robert Kahn (US), Vinton Cerf (US), and Louis Pouzin (France) for their contributions to the protocols that make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet.
• Tim Berners-Lee (UK) for the creation of the World Wide Web.
• Marc Andreessen (US) for the Mosaic web browser.

On 25 June the winners received their award from Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in front of an audience that included the leaders of the UK's three main political parties, QEPrize judges, and a number of young engineers.

|Controlled release large molecule drug delivery{{cite web |title=Q&A: Controlled-Release Large Molecule Drug Delivery |url=https://qeprize.org/winners/q-a-controlled-release-large-molecule-drug-delivery |publisher=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation |access-date=8 February 2022}}

|Robert Langer

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|The 2015 prize was awarded to Robert Langer for his work in controlled-release large molecule drug delivery. The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of the Duke of York on 3 February. Langer, who made a speech at the announcement, said he was "proud and privileged to win the biggest engineering prize in the world". On 26 October, Langer received his award from Queen Elizabeth II{{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2015/october/queen-elizabeth-prize-for-engineering-presented-to|title=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering presented to Dr Robert Langer|date=28 October 2015|website=Royal Academy of Engineering}} in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

| rowspan="4" |Digital Imaging Sensors

|George E. Smith

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| rowspan="4" |The 2017 prize was awarded to the four engineers responsible for the creation of digital imaging sensors, an innovation that has facilitated advancements in medical treatments, science, communication, and entertainment. The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of the Princess Royal on 1 February.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theengineer.co.uk/queen-elizabeth-prize-awarded-to-creators-of-digital-imaging-sensors/|title=Queen Elizabeth Prize awarded to creators of digital imaging sensors|last=Ford|first=Jason|date=2017-02-01|website=The Engineer|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-09}} The winners of the 2017 prize were:

• George E. Smith (US) for the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) principle.
• Michael Tompsett (UK) for the development of the CCD image sensor, including the invention of the imaging semiconductor circuit and the analogue-to-digital converter.
• Nobukazu Teranishi (Japan) for the creation of the pinned photodiode (PPD).
• Eric Fossum (US) for improving active pixel sensor with intra-pixel charge transfer.

On 6 December, the winners received their award from the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

| rowspan="4" |Global Positioning System (GPS)

|Bradford Parkinson

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| rowspan="4" |The 2019 prize was awarded to the four engineers responsible for the development of the first truly global, satellite-based positioning system (GPS),{{Cite web|url=http://qeprize.org/press/|title=Press page|website=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-02-13}} whose combined efforts have enabled free, immediate access to accurate position and timing information for over 4 billion people around the world. Its applications range from navigation and disaster relief to climate monitoring and banking systems. The announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley in the presence of the Princess Royal on 12 February. The winners of the 2019 prize winners were:

• Bradford Parkinson (US) for leading the development, design, and testing of key GPS components.
• James Spilker, Jr (US) for developing the L-band GPS civil signal structure using CDMA.
• Hugo FrueHauf{{Cite web|date=2019-12-03|title=GPS pioneers honored with Queen's award at Buckingham Palace|url=https://www.gpsworld.com/gps-pioneers-honored-with-queens-award-at-buckingham-palace/|access-date=2021-03-02|website=GPS World|language=en-US}} (US) for his instrumental role creating a highly accurate miniaturised atomic clock using a rubidium oscillator.
• Richard Schwartz{{Cite web|url=https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/gps-originator-richard-schwartz-me-57-talks-about-his-work-qeprize|title=GPS originator Richard Schwartz ME '57 Talks about his Work & the QEPrize {{!}} The Cooper Union|website=cooper.edu|access-date=2019-07-18}} (US) for leading the design and development of the highly robust, long-lasting Block I satellites.

On 3 December, the winners received their award from the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

| rowspan="5" |LED Lighting

|Nick Holonyak

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| rowspan="5" |The 2021 prize was awarded to the five engineers responsible for the development of LED lighting – which forms the basis of all solid state lighting technology and is 75% more energy efficient than traditional bulbs, contributing to a global reduction of energy consumption. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the announcement was made by Lord Browne of Madingley during a global livestream event. The winners of the 2021 prize were:

• Nick Holonyak (US) for developing the first (red) visible-light light emitting diode.
• M. George Craford (US) for developing the yellow LED and pioneering the development of AlInGaP LEDs using metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD).
• Russell Dupuis (US) for demonstrating that MOCVD could be applied to high-quality semiconductor thin films and devices to produce high performance LEDs.
• Shuji Nakamura (USA) and Isamu Akasaki (Japan) for their development of blue and white LEDs.

On 8 December, the winners received their award from the Prince of Wales in a ceremony St James's Palace.{{Cite web|date=2021-12-08|title=Charles awards pioneers of LED lighting with prestigious engineering prize|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/charles-london-japan-covid-b1972317.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=The Independent|language=en}}

|Neodymium-iron-boron magnet

|Masato Sagawa

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|The 2022 prize was awarded to Masato Sagawa for the discovery, development and global commercialisation of the world's most powerful permanent magnet, the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet, which has been transformational in its contribution towards enabling cleaner, energy saving technologies.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60205351 |title=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering honours magnet pioneer |publisher=BBC News |date=1 February 2022}}

| rowspan="4" |Passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) solar cells

|Martin Green

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| rowspan="4" |The 2023 prize was awarded to the four engineers responsible for the invention and development of Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) solar photovoltaic technology,{{Cite web|url=https://qeprize.org/winners/perc-solar-technology|title=Press page|website=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering|language=en-GB|access-date=2023-07-14}} which has underpinned recent exponential growth in high performance, low-cost solar electricity.

• Martin Green set up the Solar Photovoltaic group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) which demonstrated successive improvements in cell efficiency over a period of 30 years including the PERC cell and where the co-recipients of the prize studied as PHD students.
• Andrew Blakers was the lead developer of the PERC cell as a commercial technology.
• Aihua Wang with her husband Jianhua Zhao continued the development of PERC cells to achieve efficiencies of 25%.

| rowspan="2" |Modern wind power technology

|Andrew Garrad CBE

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| rowspan="2" |The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering was awarded for... achievements in advancing the design, manufacture and deployment of high-performance wind turbines, allowing wind energy to make a substantial contribution to the world’s electricity generation. Over the last four decades, Garrad and Stiesdal have made groundbreaking engineering inputs, developing the early technology and maintaining their presence in leading positions as the industry has grown, enabling the world’s biggest rotating machines, which help drive progress towards a net-zero energy economy.{{cite web |title=Modern Wind Power Technology |url=https://qeprize.org/winners/wind-power |access-date=7 February 2024 |website=2024 QEPrize Winners |publisher=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering |language=en}}

| rowspan="7" |Modern Machine Learning

|Yoshua Bengio

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| rowspan="7" |The 2025 QEPrize awarded to seven engineers who have made seminal contributions to the development of Modern Machine Learning, a core compenent of artificial interllience (AI) advancements.{{cite web |title=Modern Machine Learning |url=https://qeprize.org/winners/modern-machine-learning |access-date=5 February 2025 |website=2025 QEPrize Winners |publisher=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering |language=en}}

• Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield and Yann LeCun have long championed artificial neural networks as an effective model for machine learning and this is now the dominant paradigm.
• Jensen Huang and Bill Dally have led developments in the hardware platforms that underpin the operation of modern machine learning algorithms.
• Fei-Fei Li established the importance of providing high quality datasets, both to benchmark progress and underpin the training of machine learning algorithms.