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Nuclear engineer wins Academy award
26 July 2010
Will Machin's early career has been characterised by an extraordinary determination to achieve success for himself and his employer, the National Nuclear Laboratory. Now he has fulfilled his early potential with a prestigious award from the Academy - he received the Sir George Macfarlane certificate from Academy President Lord Browne of Madingley earlier this month.
Bosch Technology Horizons Award winners announced
21 July 2010
The 2010 winners of the Bosch Technology Horizons Award were announced at a ceremony held at the Academy. The award is an essay writing competition that is open to all young people aged 14 to 24. Now in its fifth year, the competition aims to raise the profile of engineering and technology amongst young people. Entrants were asked to write a short essay on the question: 'Are engineering and technology essential for future development?'. The two award winners were named as Caitlin Willis and Thomas Dean...
Rebalancing the economy, starting with research
08 July 2010
The Royal Academy of Engineering has set out its view that the central focus for government-funded science and engineering research in the UK must be the rebalancing of the economy towards a high-technology based manufacturing sector. In a letter to Professor Adrian Smith, Director General Science and Research, Academy President, Lord Browne of Madingley, sets out the case for driving this process by concentrating engineering research in the country's best-performing universities...
Academy elects 'unique national resource' to assist in economic recovery
08 July 2010
Fifty three of the UK's leading engineers have been elected to The Royal Academy of Engineering this year following its AGM in London on 5 July, demonstrating the diversity and pervasiveness of 21st century engineering. Leading industrialists, pioneering inventors and top academics have become Fellows of the UK's national academy of engineering. Academy President Lord Browne of Madingley says: "The expertise of our Fellows is a unique national resource. We want to see that expertise brought to bear at a much earlier stage of policy development - to ensure that policy is workable, sustainable and affordable."
Groundbreaking Mott MacDonald engineer wins Academy Award
07 July 2010
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded one of its highest accolades to Mott MacDonald engineer Alan Powderham. He received the Sustained Achievement Award at the Academy's AGM in London on 5 July from the President, Lord Browne of Madingley. In a career spanning over 40 years, Alan Powderham has brought engineering excellence to numerous projects setting new industry benchmarks in foundation engineering. His solutions have been described as dramatic and even adventurous. Yet central to Alan's approach is safety and value - he has a passion for relating theory to design and design to construction...
Engineering the future hosts new MPs' reception in Parliament
02 July 2010
MPs and Peers met with leading engineers in Parliament this week at a reception, hosted by the Engineering the future alliance of engineering organisations. The meeting, attended by parliamentarians of all parties, provided an opportunity to learn about the critical role that engineering will play in addressing the grand challenges currently facing the UK. Issues discussed included the need to rebalance the economy, develop a sustainable infrastructure and grow the low carbon economy...
Academy hosts event on engineering the 2012 olympic and paralympic games
02 July 2010
The Beijing Olympics were a resounding success with an impressive medal tally by British athletes. What was less well publicised, though no less noteworthy, was the contribution of UK engineers in terms of the infrastructure, stadiums and equipment used by the competitors. John Armitt CBE FREng, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, chaired a seminar last week at the Academy highlighting the crucial role that engineering will again play in delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The event covered the challenges in constructing world-class venues and settings for the Games, sustainable development and ethical issues surrounding sports technology...
Academy's Vice President addresses the scientific and engineering community in Parliament
24 June 2010
Martin Earwicker FREng, Vice President and chairman of the Academy's External Affairs Committee addressed delegates at the Parliamentary Links Day on Monday. Speaking to a packed audience on the theme of Science and the New Parliament, Professor Earwicker said, "improving competitiveness is not about picking winners - whether technologies, companies or products. But it must be about supporting strategic parts of the value chain in all sectors of the industrial system where the UK can enjoy a competitive advantage and ensuring that there are enough people with the skills, not just engineering skills, that business needs."
The engineer who rewired the planet - and the scientist who gave us the laser
18 June 2010
If anyone can claim to have rewired the planet it is Professor Sir
Charles Kao CBE FREng FRS, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2009.
The first person to propose a practical optical fibre communication
system, he helped to lay the technological foundations of the internet.
On 17 June 2010 he visited the Academy for a special event to mark 50
years of lasers and their application to communication.
2010 Birthday Honours
14 June 2010
Congratulations to the following Fellows of the Academy who have been recognised in The Queen's Birthday Honours list: Professor Colin Humphreys CBE, has been made a Knight Batchelor; Professor Charles K Kao is now a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE); Douglas Oakervee OBE, Dr Scott Steedman and Dr Jean Venables OBE have been made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)...
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