The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award

Winners

2010

ERA 2010 Winner, Dr Alexandre Pechev, a Lecturer in Control Engineering from the Surrey Space Centre at the University of SurreyDr Alexandre Pechev
Lecturer, University of Surrey

Recognising him for his submission “From spacecraft control to fast computer animation in games’ which is a new, faster way of animating characters in computer games. His company IKinema is commercialising the technology and its ambition is bring movie-like realism to all computer games.

See the News Release for more information.

2009

ERA 2009 Winner, Dr David Batterbee, Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and Managing Director of MR Shox LtdDr David Batterbee
Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and Managing Director of MR Shox Ltd

In recognition for David Batterbee's work on “MR Shox” (MagnetoRheological Shock absorbers) which commercialises semi-active suspension products by utilising magnetorheological fluids. MR Shox began business with the release of a revolutionary electronic absorber for rear suspension mountain bikes. See the News Release for more information.

2008

ERA 2008 Winner's, EMdot form Queen Mary UniversityEMdot
Queen Mary University

EMdot, for their patented drop-on demand dispensing technology. The technology allows the controlled production of extremely small liquid droplets which is important in a number of biomedical applications such as the engineering of replacement cartilage, soft tissue or bone and the production of microarray chips for drug development or disease diagnosis. See the News Release for more information.

2007

ERA Winner Mario Iobbi with oxygen therapy patient Jim Mullarkey at the Royal Brompton HospitalMario Iobbi
Imperial College London

Mario is the founder of Dynamic Therapeutics a company which has developed a novel respiratory therapeutic device to help patients with respiratory problems. See the News Release for more information.

2006

Phil Harper with AwardPhil Harper
University of Sheffield, Research Assistant

Mr Harper is the founder of Tribosonics Ltd, a company which has developed a unique sensor technology that can monitor and predict the failure of mechanical seals. See the News Release for more information.

Enquiries

All enquiries should be sent to:

Sylvia Hampartumian
Manager, Awards
The Royal Academy of Engineering

[E-mail Sylvia Hampartumian]

The ERA Foundation website is at www.erafoundation.org

 

 

Updated August 2012

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