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Academy Awards Sponsors 2011
Title sponsor
BAE Systems is a global defence and security company
with approximately 100,000 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 support services. In 2010
BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$
34.6 billion).
With over 18,000 engineers, BAE Systems are the
biggest employer of engineers in the UK and remain
committed to ensuring the UK retains its
technological lead and engineering capability. As
part of this commitment, the company invests over
£50M per annum in UK education, training and skills
related activities, working with over 100
universities worldwide including 30 in the UK.
BAE Systems is proud to support the Academy’s
Engineering Engagement Project, helping to enable
investment in a range of education activities. This
has ranged from training for school Science and
Engineering Ambassadors to the production of high
quality education resources for teachers and
Ambassadors to give young people a practical insight
into engineering. Bringing engineering to life has
been central to the development of these resources
and has included, for example, the engineering
behind the Bob Skeleton sled that brought Amy
Williams a gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
With an eye to the future, BAE Systems launched its
Skills 2020 programme in July last year. Skills 2020
will help to ensure that they have the skills to
compete successfully for the future and will
encompass all education, skills and training-related
activity in the UK. Working with The Royal Academy
of Engineering on the Technician Council further
illustrates BAE Systems’ commitment to helping
address the UK’s future skills requirements.
www.baesystems.com
Other sponsors
 The
Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of
technology and services. In the areas of Automotive
and Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and
Building Technology, some 283,500 associates
worldwide generated sales of 47.3 billion Euros in
2010.
The company spends considerable amount on R&D every
year. In 2010, its Research and Development
expenditure came to 4 billion Euros, approximately
45 percent of this spending went into the
development of products that protect the environment
and conserve resources. These environmentally
friendly products now account for 40 percent of the
company’s total sales.
Today, Bosch continues to pursue the
customer-oriented business philosophy expressed by
its corporate slogan “Invented for life.” It does so
by developing innovative products and practical
solutions designed to improve quality of life for
people everywhere.
Engineering is the key, not only to finding
innovative and energy-efficient ways, for example,
to generate electricity to heat homes and power
cars, but to find long-term solutions to many of the
ecological problems, such as global warming, CO2
emissions and the current dependence on fossil
fuels.
Worcester, Bosch Group is one of the UK’s leading
manufacturers of heating and hot water appliances
for the home and is at the forefront of providing
energy effi cient and environmentally sustainable
solutions for the consumers.
This year the Rising Star award went to Steven
Keeley, Manufacturing, Controls and Planning
Engineer at Worcester, Bosch Group. Every appliance
manufactured in Worcester is tested and set to
achieve maximum effi ciency. With the help of a new
Laser System technology, Steven has successfully
identifi ed a method to measure the key component
gasses emitted from the boiler quickly and with
increased accuracy.
The Bosch Technology Horizons Award has been running
for six successful years now. 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.
Their ambition is for this to lead them to a future
career in engineering. This year Bosch have received
a record number of entries, in total 815 and the
quality of the essays has been outstanding.
This year is the 125th anniversary of the company’s
founding and the 150th anniversary of the birth of
the founder, Robert Bosch. The company continue to
strive for sustained economic success and a leading
market position in all that it does, and
particularly its social and environmental
responsibility.
www.bosch.co.uk
Petrofac is a leading
international provider of facilities solutions to
the oil & gas production and processing industry.
This year Petrofac turned 30. In three decades the
company has grown from a Texas-based producer of
modular plant to a leading FTSE100 company with
around 14,000 staff in 26 countries worldwide,
providing integrated facilities solutions across the
life cycle of oil & gas assets.
Petrofac designs and builds
oil & gas facilities; operates, maintains and
manages facilities and trains personnel; enhances
production; and, where it can leverage its service
capability, develops and co invests in upstream and
infrastructure projects.
The group delivers these
services through seven business units: Engineering &
Construction, Engineering & Construction Ventures,
Engineering Services, Off shore Engineering &
Operations, Training Services, Production Solutions
and Energy Developments. In their individual
development these businesses are enabling Petrofac
to become active across the entire value chain of
the oil & gas industry, in support of our diverse
customer portfolio which includes many of the
world’s leading integrated, independent and national
oil & gas companies.
Engineering is at the heart of
Petrofac’s operations. Engineers account for around
28 percent of total staff . Without engineering the
world simply could not function, so recruiting top
engineering talent both into industry generally and
Petrofac specifi cally, is a critical component of
the company’s continuing success. This is an area
that Petrofac has been focused on for a number of
years and is the reason Petrofac is in partnership
with The Royal Academy of Engineering.
The partnership started in
2009 with the shared the objective of engaging some
of the UK’s top engineering talent, and then
enabling these individuals to hone their skills
through a year-long Masters programme. In addition
to funding the Fellowships, Petrofac is also
providing case study materials and placements within
their operations in the UK. Each individual is
assigned a senior Petrofac mentor to provide
technical support and guidance throughout the year.
Petrofac hope this will promote and encourage an
eventual career in engineering.
Elaine Donegan, who was one of
the first graduates to embark on the Petrofac Royal
Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Enhanced Graduate
Fellowship programme, spoke about the benefits she
had gained from completing the programme: “The RAEng
Enhanced Graduate Fellowship has been a key turning
point in my career so far. The main benefit was
being assigned a mentor from Petrofac from the
beginning of my studies at Cranfield. This enabled
me to establish close links with Petrofac from the
onset and receive support and guidance from such an
experienced person in the oil & gas industry.”
www.petrofac.com
 Shell
is a global group of energy and petrochemicals
companies with around 100,000 employees in more than
90 countries and territories.
Shell’s businesses include oil and gas exploration
and production; production and marketing of liquefi
ed natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing,
marketing and shipping of oil products and
chemicals, and renewable energy projects.
The company makes a major contribution to the UK,
not just through products and services for our
customers, but also employment, dividends, tax
revenues and investment that boost the economy,
employing around 8,600 people directly in the UK.
Shell is a key provider of the energy that millions
of people use for heating and powering the UK.
Producing almost 15 percent of UK oil and gas on
behalf of Shell and its co-venturers, and their
Upstream business has been a leading player in the
North Sea for over 30 years.
Shell’s Downstream business has about 900
Shell-branded service stations serving half a
million customers each day, with products such as
Shell FuelSave, developed to help customers save up
to one litre of fuel per tank.
Shell seeks to reinforce its position as a leader in
the oil and gas industry, while helping to meet
global energy demand in a responsible way. Shell is
playing its part to meet the challenge of climate
change.
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 Academy.
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 the Group Head of Engineering is a Fellow 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 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 12,000 people in the UK
and more than 85,000 worldwide.
The company is addressing some of the energy
industry’s greatest challenges head-on. Such as how
to go about meeting tomorrow’s energy demands in a
sustainable way or how changes in technology will
aff ect the way E.ON work, from providing an even
better service to customers, to selling their
products at an affordable price.
E.ON is investing millions of pounds in Research and
Development to find the best ways to bring forward
low carbon energy and energy efficiency
technologies. The 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.
E.ON’s Engineering Academy is leading the way by
providing the training, qualifi cations and
professional development that engineers need to
build successful careers in the utility,
manufacturing and heavy industry sectors. E.ON is
actively promoting careers in engineering to school,
college and university students by 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’s Awards, highlighting the best of
British engineering achievement.
www.eon-uk.com
 Thales
is a global technology leader for the defence &
security and the aerospace & transport markets. In
2010, the company generated revenues of £11.2
billion (€13.1 billion), with 68,000 employees in 50
countries. With its 22,500 engineers and
researchers, Thales has a unique capability to
design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and
services that meet the most complex security
requirements. Thales has an exceptional
international footprint, with operations around the
world working with customers as local partners.
Thales UK employs 8,000 staff based at 40 locations.
In 2010 Thales UK’s revenues were around £1.5
billion.
www.thalesgroup.com/uk
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