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Academy Awards Sponsors 2010
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
 Innovation
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
 Shell
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
 Arup
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
 BP
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
 E.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
 Thales
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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