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02 June 2005
The Academy Awards Dinner
6.30 pm for 7.00 pm at Drapers' Hall, Throgmorton Street, London, EC2
This year's winners picked up their Academy Awards at a special dinner held at the Drapers Hall on June 2nd. The Prince Philip Medal has been awarded to Professor James Dooge FREng. The coveted President's Medal has gone to the man behind the iPOD, Jonathan Ive . Four men are receiving the Academy's Silver Medal for their contributions to British engineering and commercial development.The Sir Frank Whittle Medal has been won by Peter John Lawrenson and the Academy's first ever Lifetime Acheivement Award has been awarded to Dr Philip Woodward for his pioneering work on Radar. The Public Promotion of Engineering Medal has been won by Dr Lindsay Sharp , the man behind the Science Museum.

CSR plc, the Cambridge-based wireless silicon company, has won this year's Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for its single chip BlueCore™ family, the revolutionary devices which have fuelled the inexorable rise of Bluetooth wireless products, from mobile phones to medical devices.

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17 May 2005
Enabling a Business Process Revolution
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger
5:30pm for 6pm
The Royal Academy of Engineering
29 Great Peter Street
London SW1P 3LW

There is no charge for this event. Places are limited and will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Please send ticket requests to events (at) raeng.org.uk or, by post, to the Academy's main address, or by fax to 020 7233 0054.

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25 April 2005
Academy Briefing
The Engineer in Society
Speaker - Patricia Galloway, the first female President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Chairman - The President
4.00pm for 4.30pm at Mothers' Union, Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, SW1P 3RB (100 yards from the Academy)
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20 April 2005
Energy Seminar Series
Fossil Fuels
Chair: Professor Alan Williams CBE, FREng
This third seminar in the series, reviews the techonologies currently related to the use of fossil fuels and the management of carbon emissions in the UK.

This event is by invitation only any spare places will be allocated at the Academy's discretion.

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14 April 2005
Lloyds Register Lecture
Safety Appraisal Criteria
Address by Professor Andrew Evans, Lloyd's Register Professor of Transport Risk Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College.
6.15pm for 6.30pm at Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL
This lecture focused on the appraisal of safety risks from a public policy perspective, looking at long-term trends in fatal accidents in transport and in other activities. It then considered frameworks for assessing risk and the wider repercussions of accidents beyond their direct effects.

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18 - 20 March 2005
Engineering Leadership Awards Selection 2005
Residential Weekend at Moller Centre, Cambridge
For more information, visit www.engineeringleadershipawards.org.uk

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11 March 2005
Engineering and the Creative Arts; A New Frontier?
Address by Dr Robert Hawley CBE FREng FRSE, Chairman, Taylor Woodrow plc
5.30 pm at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ
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Engineering and the Creative Arts; A New Frontier?

 

 

10 March 2005
Annual Fellows Regional Lecture and Dinner
Engineering Images... a fusion of engineering and art
Address by Richard A Williams FREng, Anglo American plc Professor of Mineral and Process Engineering, University of Leeds
Engineering Images... a fusion of engineering and art

 

 

24 February 2005
Energy Seminar Series
Renewables
Chair: Dr David Lindley OBE FREng
Through assesments from industry leaders, the second seminar in the Academy's energy series reviewed the current situation and future prospects for conventional renewables. The barriers to the commercial development and implementation of these technologies were also be explored.

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17 February 2005
Academy Briefing
The Role of Design and Innovation in Engineering Education
4.30 pm at 29 Great Peter Street, London, SWIP 3LW
This meeting will be valuable for all academics, employers and professional Institutions with an interest in educating and training engineers to be more innovative and "product aware".

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Educating engineers in design

 

 

 

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