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Tall tales - teaching engineers to tell stories
17 July 2008 Ingenious award winner, Professor Trevor Cox, professor at the University of Salford, explores engaging the public with the science and engineering of unpleasant acoustics
Engineers will soon be learning to tell stories - in a project funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious award. The 'Digital Storytelling' project will train early-career engineers in the art of personal narrative and film-making, capturing the stories and combining audio and still images using new technology...

Students have their say on how technology and engineering is driving change across the globe
15 July 2008 Photo showing Richard Noble, Philip Greenish, Christopher Cubitt, Carmel Digweed, Kate Bellingham and Robert Meier
The winners and finalists of The Independent-Bosch Technology Horizons Award 2008 competition attended a presentation ceremony held recently at The Royal Academy of Engineering. The ceremony, hosted by former Tomorrow's World presenter Kate Bellingham, President of Young Engineers, also featured presentations from Richard Noble OBE, project director of Thrust SSC, Professor Bill O'Riordan FREng, former chief scientist of Fujitsu/ICL and Steve Connor, Science Editor at The Independent newspaper

Academy announces new Fellows for 2008
09 July 2008
Queen Mary 2 designer Stephen Payne, international development champion Jo da Silva from Arup, and John Loughhead, leader of the UK Energy Research Centre, are among the 44 pioneering engineers elected this year to The Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy, which promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the UK, has elected leading engineers from commercial engineering including BAE Systems' Simon Howison, UK engineering leader for the Eurofighter Typhoon, and Timothy Leverton, who led JCB's record-breaking Dieselmax land speed project.

Royal event stars Diamond at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
27 June 2008 Prof Gerd Materlik, CEO of Diamond with The Duke of Kent at the Academy Soiree
The new Diamond Light Source synchrotron was the star of the show at the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Soirée in Didcot last night. More than 150 distinguished guests including His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the Academy's Royal Fellow, attended the dinner at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.....

Promoting engineering co-operation between UK and Chinese academies
12 June 2008 Lord Browne and Prof Xu Kuangdi sign MoU in the presence of Rt. Hon John Denham MP
One of China's leading figures in politics and engineering, Professor Xu Kuangdi, was presented with The Royal Academy of Engineering's International Medal at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Merchant Taylors' Hall, London on Monday 9 June. Professor Xu, who is President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of the Academy, Lord Browne, in the presence of the Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, intended to promote future co-operation between both academies...

World's first Bionic Hand grabs the UK's biggest engineering prize
10 June 2008 Picture of the i-LIMB Hand
Touch Bionics, the Livingston-based inventors of the world's first commercially available bionic hand, the i-LIMB Hand, have won the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh presented the team with a £50,000 prize and the solid gold MacRobert Award medal at the Academy Awards Dinner at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London last night.

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Academy Awards 2008

The contenders, winners and sponsors

Newton International Fellowships

New flagship international fellowship scheme

Academy Events

18 September 2008 Fellows' Visit and Dinner:
Brunel's SS Great Britain

03 October 2008 Lecture Series in Mobile Telecommunications and Networks
To the Edge of Chaos? The complexity and the promise of a technology and service-neutral future

08 October 2008 Special Lecture
By invitation only

15 October 2008 Fellows' Visit to Bombardier

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Academy in the News

University moves to attract more women into engineering - July 22nd

Engineers learn to spin a yarn - July 22nd

Writers capture China rising - July 17th

Some big names on new list of fellows - July 16th

Civil and environmental engineering – making a difference - July 16th

Royal Academy of Engineering elects Oxford researchers - July 15th

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News of Fellows

Dr. David Milne OBE FREng awarded the Honorary Degree by Edinburgh University

Peter Head OBE FREng awarded Honorary Degree at University of Bristol

Dr David Milne FREng awarded honorary doctor of science degree

Professor Julia King CBE FREng appointed to Committee on Climate Change

Sir David Harrison CBE FREng awarded honorary degree at University of York

John Baxter FREng receives honorary degree from Robert Gordon University

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