The winner of the Karen Burt Award 2017 has been announced by the Women's Engineering Society as the candidate nominated by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Madeleine Jones of Sellafield. This prestigious annual award for a newly chartered woman engineer, now in its 19th year, recognises the candidate's excellence and potential in the practice of engineering, highlights the importance of Chartered status, as well as offering recognition to contributions made by the candidate to the promotion of the engineering profession.