Dr Drew Nelson (OBE) has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering at an awards ceremony in London, UK. Dr Nelson’s Fellowship was conferred by the presentation of a scroll by HRH Duke of Kent.

The Academy was founded in 1976 on the initiative of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and a group of distinguished engineers. It was granted its Royal Charter in 1983 and adopted its present title in 1992. It is a registered charity, supported partly by Parliamentary grant-in-aid through the Office of Science and Technology and is the only publicly funded engineering body in the UK.

Dr Nelson, who co-founded IQE in 1998, was awarded a Silver Medal by the academy in 2000 and received an OBE in 2001 for services to the electronics industry.