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Academy Awards Sponsors 2010

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BAE Systems is a global defence, security and aerospace company with approximately 107,000 employees worldwide. The company delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. In 2009 BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$ 36.2 billion).

The company is delighted to be sponsoring The Royal Academy of Engineering Awards which reward and promote the very best of the UK’s engineering talents. With over 18,000 engineers, we are the biggest employer of engineers in the UK and committed to ensuring the UK retains its technological lead and engineering capability.

And, to ensure we meet future skills requirements, BAE Systems invests over £40 million per annum in education and skills activities in the UK alone. Every year we recruit around 300 engineering graduates and have 1,000 apprentices in training at any one time.

As part of this, we are excited to be working with The Royal Academy of Engineering on a major new programme which will fund teacher training for the Engineering diploma and resources for after-schools engineering clubs.

www.baesystems.com

Picture of Bosch logoInnovation is, for the Bosch Group, at the heart of everything we do. In 2009, Bosch spent a record sum of 3.6 billion euros on research and development, resulting in more than 3,800 patents being registered. This makes an average of 15 new patents a day. Today, more than 33,000 Bosch associates around the world are working in the field of R&D.

The Bosch slogan, ‘Invented for Life’, guides our company strategy - we want to provide lasting answers to ecological questions. That is why, this year, we will invest around 45% of our R&D budget in projects that aim to conserve resources and protect the environment.

The Bosch Group now generates a third of its sales through products that meet the criteria of conserving resources and protecting the environment. In the UK, for example, Bosch Rexroth manufactures hydraulic drives and gearboxes for wind turbines; Worcester, part of the Bosch Group manufactures solar panels and ground source heat pumps for domestic heating.

The UK is the world’s leading offshore wind power provider. In 2010, Bosch Rexroth will produce three offshore wind turbine installation vessels; each vessel equipped with Bosch Rexroth drive and control systems, with high-performance jacking capabilities of up to 22,500 tonnes. Rexroth is already involved with the next generation of renewable energy, developing high-performance drives for marine energy plants.

Engineering innovation is hugely important to Bosch. In 2009, the Engineer of the Future award went to Nick Butcher, a key member of the engineering team responsible for the design, development and implementation of the new Bosch Ciso, the cordless secateur. In the case of the Ciso development, not only is the new product predicted to be a major seller worldwide but its creation brought about around 100 new assembly jobs at Bosch Lawn and Garden’s Stowmarket plant.

The Bosch Technology Horizons Award has been running for five successful years. The success of the competition is due to the strong partnership with The Royal Academy of Engineering to inspire a fascination in young people with modern technology. Our ambition is that this will lead them to a future career in engineering. This year, we have received a record number of entries, in total 773 and the quality of the essays has been outstanding.

The Bosch Group is proud to sponsor this event. We look forward to seeing the winning students of the Bosch Technology Horizons competition presented with their awards.

www.bosch.co.uk

 

Picture of Shell logoShell supports The Royal Academy of Engineering in promoting excellence in engineering. For Shell, engineering is at the heart of what we do. Without our engineers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, we wouldn’t have begun production last year at Parque das Conchas 110km offshore from Brazil and 1,800m below the surface. Nor would we have recently opened the technologically award-winning Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore, helping meet Asia’s growing demand for Petrochemicals.

Shell is proud to be a part the Academy’s Engineering Leadership Advanced Awards for undergraduates, supporting 40 awards made to the best of best engineering talent, regardless of nationality. Shell also sponsors the Visiting Teaching Fellowship Programme enabling 10 young industrial engineers to share their cutting-edge, industrial knowledge, and offer role model inspiration and practical careers advice. "I am delighted that we are able to support these two Royal Academy of Engineering programmes. Engineers are critical to Shell's business. It is important to us that undergraduate students have these sorts of opportunities open to them to help them develop into top-class engineers".

Malcolm Brinded FREng, Executive Director, Upstream International, Shell

This year sees one of our young engineers, Clare Ashton recognised for her work on the Shearwater Low Pressure Compression Project in the central North Sea. After joining Shell as a graduate, Clare quickly developed to become the Shell Site Representative at the onshore fabrication and construction facility in Aberdeen. Clare’s management and execution in the build up to the final hook-up of the module, with a focus on safety performance, contributed to the handover of operations on 11th February 2010, 49 days ahead of schedule and also under budget.

We are a global company employing around 100,000 people across more than 100 countries. Our operations include exploring and producing oil, refining, chemicals, trading and shipping, gas and power, and oil sands. In the UK we operate the country’s second-largest refinery and have more than 900 shell-branded service stations. The UK is also home to Shell’s Technology Centre near Chester, part of our Projects & Technology business.

www.shell.co.uk

 

Picture of ARUP logoArup is proud to be supporting The Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner. Arup has a long and distinguished collaboration with The Royal Academy of Engineering, both through its work as a corporate supporter and through the active participation of its many Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering.

Arup is an independent firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants with offices around the world. Founded in 1946 with an initial focus on structural engineering, Arup first came to the world’s attention with the structural design of the Sydney Opera House, followed by its work on other iconic projects such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arup has since grown into a truly multidisciplinary organisation, with a global reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the built environment. Arup is a proud winner of the 2009 MacRobert Award for its work on the visionary Beijing Aquatic Centre, known as the Water Cube.

www.arup.com

 

Picture of BP logoBP is one of the world’s largest energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.

The President of the Academy is the former CEO of BP and both the Head of Exploration and Production and the Group Head of Engineering are Fellows of the Academy.

BP has been sponsoring the Academy Awards Dinner for a number of years in recognition of the importance of these prestigious engineering awards to the promotion of excellence in UK engineering.

www.bp.com

 

Picture of Eon logoE.ON is one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies, generating and distributing electricity, and retailing power and gas. It is also part of the E.ON Group, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies employing around 16,000 people in the UK and more than 90,000 worldwide.

We’re addressing some of the energy industry’s greatest challenges head-on. Like how we’ll go about meeting tomorrow’s energy demands in a sustainable way or how changes in technology will affect the way we work - from providing an even better service to our customers to selling our products at an affordable price.

We’re investing millions of pounds in Research and Development to find the best ways to bring forward low carbon energy and energy efficiency technologies. Our aim is to maximise day-to-day power plant operation as well as identifying the most workable and commercially viable steps to longer-term energy related carbon reduction.

Our Engineering Academy is leading the way by providing the training, qualifications and professional development that engineers need to build successful careers in the utility, manufacturing and heavy industry sectors. We’re actively promoting careers in engineering to school, college and university students - encouraging the next generation of engineers into the industry and helping to tackle the future skills gap.

E.ON is proud to support The Royal Academy of Engineering Awards - highlighting the best of British engineering achievement in the field of innovation.

www.eon-uk.com

 

Picture of Thales logoThales UK is delighted to sponsor the Academy Awards Dinner for 2010. The Academy plays a critical role in the development and maintenance of the UK’s engineering and technological capability, and recent events in the financial markets have re-emphasised how important these are to the well being of the UK as a whole. Innovation and technology are likely to be the key contributors to pulling the UK’s economy out of recession.

Thales UK has large and expanding graduate and apprenticeship programmes and works closely with the Academy on the professional aspects. Many of our employees are associated with the Academy, and some of our Academy Fellows will be present tonight celebrating the achievements of the award winners and looking forward to the continuing advance of the Academy.

Thales is a major industrial force in the UK, with 8,500 employees based at 40 locations throughout all regions. Thales UK provides systems at the heart of the UK’s military capability, as well as delivering technologies from flight simulation and secure transactions to ground transportation and security. Annual revenues are around £1.2 billion, over a third of which comes from exports.

Thales UK has the expertise, skills and capability, both technically and financially, to undertake prime contracting and is committed to understanding and serving the needs of all its customers and delivering on quality, time and cost.

Globally, Thales Group employs 68,000 people in 50 countries, including 22,500 research & development engineers, acknowledged as leaders in their fields.

Major successes signal the excellent quality of its technical, industrial and economic capabilities and are an endorsement of its ability to partner effectively with its customers and co-ordinate a broad range of skill-sets and technologies.

www.thalesgroup.com/uk

 

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