Undergraduate wins Institution of Engineering and Technology prize
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) awards a number of annual prizes to outstanding students who are completing a course of study which has been accredited by the IET. Prize winners are nominated by their university based on having shown distinction in their course leading to the award of a first degree.
Zaheen A-Rahman, a second-year undergraduate reading for a MEng Engineering Sciences degree at St John's, has won the IET Prize for 2025.
Zaheen will receive a certificate and two years of free student membership of the IET.
Zaheen is interested in bridging the gap between vastly different domains of engineering. In particular, the combination of control theory, thermodynamics, cancer biology, and artificial intelligence. He credits his wide-ranging interests to the heavily multidisciplinary nature of the MEng Engineering Science course at the University of Oxford.
" It is truly a great honour to receive the IET Prize! At the same time, I found receiving it to be quite a humbling experience: it would certainly not have been possible without all the superb support from my terrific tutors here at St John's College, as well as from my wonderful teachers and the stellar staff at the Department of Engineering Science. For this, I am immensely grateful to them all. " Zaheen A-Rahman, IET Prize winner 2025