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FT online: Dealing with the data deluge
4 February 2013
At the turn of the millennium, many pundits described the 20th century as one of physics-based innovation and anticipated the 21st as the century of biology. Now, 13 years in, it looks increasingly as though we are living in the century of data. Though research in biology and medicine continues to make exciting progress in the lab, it has yet to make much difference to the lives of most people. By far the biggest changes so far this century are due to the processing and communication of data (in the broad sense) from mass participation in the internet and associated social media to the digital takeover of writing, music and photography.
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Times’ letter: Engineers square up to meet grand challenges
4 February 2013
The first Global Grand Challenges Summit will meet in March with the aim of improving global sustainability…
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Yahoo: Elite Engineering Programme: Aims to Re-Ignite the UK’s Status as World Leader in Engineering
31 January 2013
An entirely new private sector initiative funded to boost British engineering is launched today to businesses at BETT (the education and technology trade fair). The Elite Engineering Programme is launched in conjunction with LEGO Education UK & Ireland, and programme manager Kate Bellingham in partnership with the principal funder, the Helsington Foundation, and the Royal Academy of Engineering
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The Manufacturer: City pollution will drive automative innovation
31 January 2013
“City pollution will drive automotive innovation, not climate change,” said Lord Drayson, managing partner of Drayson Racing Technologies.
Speaking at the Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Drayson says that car pollution is the “invisible killer in our cities,” with legislation set to come
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Wired: Lord Drayson pioneers green technologies in motorsport
30 January 2013
As a racing driver and engineer, Lord Paul Drayson has pioneered green technologies in motorsport since 2007, winning the first national GT and international Le Mans races using cars powered by second generation bioethanol fuels. Today the minister opened talks at the Royal Academy of Engineering's meeting discussing innovation in the automotive industry, describing his belief in the bright future of electric cars.
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Physics World: 2013 ERA Foundation international lecture
24 January 2013
Speaking at the 2013 ERA Foundation international lecture at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London last night, Shirley Ann Jackson spelled out the principles of such an endeavour, which would essentially involve bringing researchers from different subjects, countries, cultures and sectors together to work on important multidisciplinary problems. Exploiting computer technology, the Web and big data sets would be the key to tackling such challenges, she reckons.
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Professional Engineering: Call for more low-carbon energy sources
23 January 2013
Dr Shirley Ann Jackson, who is in Britain this week to deliver a speech at the Royal Academy of Engineering, said efforts to diversify energy supply should continue whether or not one believed in anthropogenic climate change.
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BBC Radio 4: Dr Shirley Ann Jackson FREng talks about Big Data
22 January 2013
The huge increases in computing power that have been occurring over the last six decades are constantly being absorbed in new and different ways. Tom Feilden, Today's science correspondent, and Dr Shirley Ann Jackson FREng, an adviser to President Obama, examine one of the latest phrases to drop into public circulation: Big Data.
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Wall Street Journal: Academy’s GNSS report
21 January 2013
A technology that dates back to the 1950s is being trialed in the world’s busiest shipping lanes to provide highly-accurate navigation that is not dependent on the weak, and easily jammed, satellite signals
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BBC Radio 4: Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng on The Life Scientific
15 January 2013
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Robert Mair, professor of Civil engineering at Cambridge
University about his life as an engineer in academia and industry and his expertise
on finding innovative solutions to the problems of building tunnels under already
congested cities.
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TES online: STEM fees debate
15 January 2013
Surveys of employers show that 42 per cent of
businesses struggle to find staff with the STEM
skills they need. Professor Matthew Harrison,
director of engineering and education at the
Royal Academy of Engineering, said that 8 per
cent of all engineering qualifications are for
over-24s on level 3 courses - the highest rate
among STEM subjects - which the sector could not
afford to lose in a time of high demand.
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Huffington Post: More Women in Science and Engineering Will Unlock Growth
20 December 2012
The Royal Academy of Engineering recently said
that over two million engineers are needed in
the UK over the next decade to replace the huge
numbers set to retire and to build for the
future.
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The Telegraph: Let’s get fracking!
19 December 2012
Exploiting shale gas is safe, according to the
Royal Society and the Royal Academy of
Engineering. Fracking of one kind or another has
been used here for decades; the earthquakes it
causes are no worse than a bus going past; it
does not use much water compared with other
industries; it’s not responsible for flammable
tap water; and methane leakage is not as bad as
has been claimed.
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Guardian: New ICT curriculum proposed by Academy and BCS
19 December 2012
The rough draft is innovative, refreshing, and
exciting. Bill Mitchell of BCS (the Chartered
Institute for IT), which along with the Royal
Academy of Engineering has worked on the new
curriculum since August, said at a recent Google
and Guardian event in London: "What we are
trying to do is get a curriculum that sets the
destination of travel."
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BBC News: Fracking: Untangling fact from fiction
19 December 2012
Another review, carried out by the Royal Society
and the Royal Academy of Engineering, also gave
fracking the green light - provided that strong
regulations were in place.
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Mail online: Shale gas revolution starts now:
19 December 2012
A new phase of drilling for shale gas, which the
Government hopes will revolutionise Britain’s
energy supply, was given the go-ahead yesterday.
The controversial technique of extracting the
gas from subterranean rock – known as fracking –
was suspended last year after it was believed to
have caused two small earthquakes in Lancashire.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey said new conditions
had now been imposed to minimise the risk of
seismic activity.
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The Times: ‘Bankers? Threaten them with prison. It’s engineers and plumbers we need’
3 December 2012
The new Skills Minister, Matthew Hancock, is a
rising star with plans for the next generation
Matthew Hancock is not only the golden boy of
the 2010 Tory intake but a prize-winning jockey.
The new Skills Minister this year won his first
race at Newmarket on Dick Doughtywylie for a
charity event.
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E&T online: Industry reacts to Energy Bill
3 December 2012
“Energy is at the heart of society and underpins
economic growth,” said Sir John Parker GBE
FREng, president of the Royal Academy of
Engineering. “Without a secure and affordable
supply of energy for the long term, our
industries will not be globally competitive.
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Future of technology lies with youngsters
3 December 2012
Sir John Parker, president of the Royal Academy
of Engineering, was in Barrow this week as a
guest of Barrow Engineering Project. The Royal
Academy of Engineering has funded BEP for the
last five years to support its science,
technology, engineering and maths based
activities for Furness youngsters from primary
to further education age.
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Wired: Institute of Ideas debate: can technology set us free?
26 November 2012
Can technology set us free? That was the title
of the Battle of Ideas, held on 22 November by
the Institute of Ideas -- a seemingly impossible
question to answer in two short hours in a
packed room at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Independent: Can Britain’s Bill Gates bounce back?
26 November 2012
Even though it was the middle of the working day
on a bright October afternoon, the event had
proved popular. The Royal Academy of
Engineering, in whose renovated headquarters
Lynch stood, was renaming the building Prince
Philip House in honour of its senior fellow, the
big draw whom the audience of silver-haired
academics and executives had gathered to hear
from.
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Engineer: Software could enhance the accuracy of keyhole surgery
26 November 2012
‘The real challenge is that most of the existing
work is based on rigid environments or on
environments where light reflectance can be
simplified,’ said Stoyanov, a Royal Academy of
Engineering/EPSRC research fellow at UCL’s
Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) and
Department of Computer Science.
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New joint Chair to research into Low Carbon Materials Technology
23 November 2012
WMG have today, Monday 12th of November 2012,
announced that Professor Sridhar Seetharaman has
been appointed to the Tata Steel and Royal
Academy of Engineering joint Chair for research
into Low Carbon Materials Technology.
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Times: Drones are coming. So let’s be ready for them, says Chris Elliott FREng
22 November 2012
Like cars and computers, unmanned planes will
change lives. But we must set the rules When
technology changes society, it can come as a
surprise. Henry Ford took a gamble because there
weren’t enough chauffeurs for all the cars he
was going to build.
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Guardian: Protect industrial base from spending cuts, says Sir John Parker
19 November 2012
In an interview at the Royal Academy of
Engineering, where he is president, Parker said
the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats
must co-operate on a long-term commitment to
Britain's industrial base, which accounts for
10% of GDP.
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FT online: A people man and a pragmatist
19 November 2012
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FT online: Call to support business ‘champions’
19 November 2012
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Guardian: Digital literacy must become an essential part of the ICT curriculum
16 November 2012
The changes that are currently taking place to
the ICT curriculum are welcome. The proposed
curriculum developed by the Royal Academy of
Engineering and the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS)
recommends teaching principles of computer
science and digital literacy from Key Stage 1 in
all schools. Many now understand that computer
programming and coding is an academically
rigorous but fun discipline.
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Guardian: New ICT curriculum proposed by Academy and BCS
13 November 2012
The rough draft is innovative, refreshing, and
exciting. Bill Mitchell of BCS (the Chartered
Institute for IT), which along with the Royal
Academy of Engineering has worked on the new
curriculum since August, said at a recent Google
and Guardian event in London: "What we are
trying to do is get a curriculum that sets the
destination of travel."
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Guardian: Report raises ethical concerns about human enhancement technologies
7 November 2012
The comments are published on Wednesday in a
report on human enhancement in the workplace
written by experts from the Royal Society, the
Royal Academy of Engineering, the British
Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Telegraph: Drugs could keep elderly working for longer
7 November 2012
The new report was published by the British
Academy, Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal
Society and Royal Academy of Engineering on
Wednesday.
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Mail online: Drugs and bionic limbs could widen wage gap between rich and poor
7 November 2012
The report, compiled by the Academy of Medical
Sciences, British Academy, Royal Academy of
Engineering and Royal Society, raised the
possibility that businesses may put pressure on
workers to take performance-enhancing drugs and
technology or risk falling behind colleagues.
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MSN: Osborne hails new engineer courses
5 November 2012
The Royal Academy of Engineering is working with
employers to redesign stages in the engineering
diploma, known as principal learning elements,
into "rigorous" new courses that will be the
equivalent of one GCSE.
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BBC News: Government to ‘rework’ engineering diploma
5 November 2012
The decision to update the diploma has been
welcomed by the Royal Academy of Engineering,
which will help to redesign the qualification.
The courses are likely to start in 2014 with the
new qualifications included in school
performance tables from 2016.
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Academy's London home named Prince Philip House
18 October 2012
Following a £6.5 million renovation and refurbishment, the Grade 1 listed Prince Philip House, which was originally designed by John Nash with views of London’s The Mall, was launched to an audience of 250 Royal Academy fellows and press.
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The Times: We must train more engineers to build the recovery
16 October 2012
Sir John Parker writes in The Times’ Thunderer column
about the need to train more engineers to help aid a
financial recovery in the UK
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Engineers, be bold - Britain needs grander designs
9 October 2012
Last week the Royal Academy of Engineering
published a report Jobs and growth: the
importance of engineering skills to the UK
economy that claimed "engineers underpin the
economy" but concluded with the gloomy news that
they are in short supply and that the UK does
not produce enough of them to make a difference.
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Sir John Parker: The case for defence
9 October 2012
So when Sir John, who is also president of the
Royal Academy of Engineering, says this
Government is stuck in limbo and needs to come
up with a coherent industrial strategy, it is
time to sit up.
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Government adds £200m to research partnership fund
9 October 2012
In a statement, Sir John Parker, president of
the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: ‘This is
a particularly encouraging message and
endorsement from government of the importance of
research and development in creating and
underpinning our nation’s future growth.
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The Engineer: Engineering as it really is
9 October 2012
The Royal Academy of Engineering has tracked
down science, engineering and technology (SET)
workers for a new report called Jobs and growth:
the importance of engineering skills to the UK
economy, and it reveals some surprising results.
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Guardian: EADS chief Tom Enders confirms push into fast-growing Asian markets
4 October 2012
Speaking after a lecture at the Royal Academy of
Engineering in London on Monday night, Enders
said he had been impressed by the eagerness and
skill of would-be engineers in developing
markets.
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BBC News: Chief executive of EADS talks of merger with BAE, at the Academy
2 October 2012
EADS chief Tom Enders said: "We intend to come
to a conclusion very soon." In comments to an
audience at the Royal Academy of Engineering in
London, Mr Enders added: "We cannot go on much
longer." He also the two firms together could
"achieve a stronger platform for growth
internationally".
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Guardian: Tom Enders dismisses fears of job cuts
2 October 2012
Speaking at a lecture at the Royal Academy of
Engineering in London, Enders said: "We have
faced the same concerns in France, Germany, over
here: does it mean are you guys slashing
thousands of jobs etc? That's not the purpose."
Enders added that the deal was about creating
growth and would be "great for Britain."
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The Times opinion piece: Engineering is fun
1 October 2012
Britain needs more engineers. The Royal Academy
of Engineering says so. It does not have advance
intelligence on a Thames Estuary airport or a
new scheme to plant the Union Jack on Mars. It
has simply added up the number of students
graduating in the STEM subjects (science,
technology, engineering and mathematics) that
tend to produce engineers and compared it with
the number needed to replenish the existing
workforce.
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Times Higher Education: Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
1 October 2012
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000
science graduates a year just to maintain its
current industrial position, a major new report
has concluded. The Royal Academy of Engineering
report, Jobs and Growth: the Importance of
Engineering Skills to the UK Economy, seeks to
provide evidence for the value of engineering
skills to the economy and to probe industry's
common complaints about the shortage of such
skills.
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BBC online: Academy report warns of shortage of engineering graduates
1 October 2012
The study, by the Royal Academy of Engineering,
says 100,000 Stem graduates are needed a year
just to maintain the status quo. It argues the
UK is already slipping down the international
innovation league tables.
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University innovator awarded an Engineering Enterprise Fellowship
24 September 2012
Dr Elford, who is 26, is one of six outstanding
innovators at UK universities to be awarded an
engineering enterprise fellowship from the Royal
Academy of Engineering. The engineering
enterprise fellowship is a grant that will
enable him to spend 12 months to continue
developing the commercial potential of his
research, with up to 85,000 pounds of funding.
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The Engineer: Developing Paralympic equipment
24 September 2012
The obvious way this can be done is by tweaking
the materials’ properties during manufacturing.
‘Different composites have enabled manufacturers
to make devices that are bespoke to a person
rather than a category of off-shelf items with a
particular shape,’ said Saeed Zahedi, the
technical director of prostheses manufacturer
Blatchford, who recently chaired a discussion on
sports prostheses at the Royal Academy of
Engineering’s sports innovation conference.
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Process Engineering: Sport, security and surveillance
5 September 2012
This week sees Weir’s racing chair designer Dan
Chambers pick up a prestigious award of his own
from the Royal Academy of Engineering, which is
to award him the Sir Frank Whittle Medal.
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The Engineer: 'Engineering will be the main beneficiary of the QE Prize'
15 August 2012
The QE Prize, whose winner will receive £1m, was
conceived as a ‘Nobel Prize for Engineering’ to
recognise and honour innovations that have made
a clear and demonstrable benefit to society and
humanity. Administered by the Royal Academy of
Engineering (RAEng), nominations for the award
close on 14 September.
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The Engineer: Will the Olympics change the public's view of engineering?
10 August 2012
Philip Greenish, chief executive of the Royal
Academy of Engineering said ‘London 2012 has
undoubtedly been an astounding success and it is
all underpinned by the excellent design,
construction and project management of the
Olympic facilities delivered by engineers. While
this has been a source of national pride, there
have been few issues of note and so few
headlines. Engineers need to help the country to
recognise and celebrate these brilliant
engineering achievements.’
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Guardian online: Make maths compulsory for all A level students, say Lords
24 July 2012
Philip Greenish, chief executive of the Royal
Academy of Engineering, said the failure in the
UK to get enough young people to engage with
mathematics after 16 was self-evident. "The
Select Committee report shows that the UK must
improve post-16 maths so that students are
properly prepared for the demands of science and
engineering degrees. There can be no greater
priority for our education system and the future
of UK growth."
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The Manufacturer: Opening up the world of engineering
19 July 2012
Year 9 pupils at Small Heath Upper School,
Birmingham, were the first in the country to
experience the Tomorrow’s Engineers “Around the
World” careers outreach programme led by
EngineeringUK and the Royal Academy of
Engineering.
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The Engineer: Prince Philip Medal winner
17 July 2012
But although he was last month honoured by the
Royal Academy of Engineering with its highest
individual award, the Prince Phillip Medal,
Hussain is very conscious that to the general
public he’s an anonymous figure.
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FT online: Engineers have a role to play in teaching MBAs
17 July 2012
A recent report by the Royal Academy of
Engineering suggested “substantial” government
investment in higher and further education was
needed to propel the UK’s journey towards an
innovation economy.
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Innovations in ICT teaching: a Guardian roundtable debate
17 July 2012
Last August, Eric Schmidt, the executive
chairman of Google, ignited debate among
educators, industrialists and policy-makers when
he revealed that he was "flabbergasted to learn
that, today, computer science isn't even taught
as standard in UK schools". He went on: "Your IT
curriculum focuses on teaching how to use
software, but gives no insight into how it's
made. That is just throwing away your great
computing heritage."
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Mail on Sunday: Jaguar Land Rover recognised for its quality work
10 July 2012
Jaguar Land Rover has won a well-earned accolade
from the Royal Academy Of Engineering for the
quality of its work on the Range Rover Evoque
built at the firm’s Halewood factory on
Merseyside. The Princess Royal presented the
engineering team with the solid-gold MacRobert
medal and a £50,000 prize for its efforts at a
ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London.
