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Low carbon research post created
www.birminghampost.net: 12 August 2011
Tata Steel and the Royal Academy of Engineering
will jointly fund the chair for research into
low carbon materials technology, in a move which
is tipped to benefit manufacturers large and
small in both the automotive sector and
manufacturing generally.
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FT online: UK demand grows for technical staff
www.ft.com: 7 August 2011
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Telegraph online: Choosing a university course
www.telegraph.co.uk: 2 August 2011
Prof Matthew Harrison, director of education at
the Royal Academy of Engineering, makes the
case: “Engineering is a global business dealing
with all of today’s big issues: energy, climate,
water, transport, health and international
security. As a result, it rewards those
individuals who make a global contribution —
engineering graduates feature strongly in the
annual tables on graduate salaries.
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FT online: Government sets out cap on immigrant engineers
www.theengineer.co.uk: 22 July 2011
The number of top-level, non-European engineers
allowed to work in Britain will effectively be
limited to 200 under rules announced yesterday.
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FT online: Sir John Parker calls for more engineers to help boost economy
www.ft.com: 21 July 2011
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Guardian online: Four bodies allowed to choose 'exceptional talent' for UK
www.guardian.co.uk: 21 July 2011
The immigration minister, Damian Green, has named
the four science, engineering and arts bodies that
will be able to nominate 1,000 leading individuals
in their fields to live and work in Britain under
a new "exceptional talent" immigration route.
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The Engineer online: Engineering entrepreneurs explain their success
www.theengineer.co.uk: 18 July 2011
The RAE’s Silver Medal winners say communication is vital in
turning raw ideas into commercial success.
Engineers are not good communicators, according
to popular opinion in the business community.
They often lack the ability to express their
ideas, express passion about their projects and
market their research to the right people.
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The Engineer online: Creators of cost-saving radio tagging system pick up award
www.theengineer.co.uk: 24 June 2011
Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan and Dr Michael Crisp
scooped the Royal Academy of Engineering ERA
Foundation Entrepreneurship Award earlier this
month for their research into a low-cost
location-sensing system. The Real Time Location
System (RTLS) will allow businesses such as
high-street retailers and airlines that use
tagging on high-end goods and passengers’
luggage to cheaply and effectively monitor the
location of these items to less than 1m.
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Cambridge engineers net £40,000 in national entrepreneurship prize
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk: 23 June 2011
Dr Sithamparanathan Sabesan, who has just
completed a PhD in Engineering at Cambridge
University's Corpus Christi College, and Dr
Michael Crisp, who is a research associate in
the Cambridge University Engineering Department,
scooped the Royal Academy of Engineering ERA
Foundation Entrepreneurship Award for their
research into a low-cost location sensing
system, which could have major benefits for a
wide range of businesses.
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Nuclear Island programme for students
www.themanufacturer.com: 23 June 2011
Cogent, the Sector Skills Council for the
Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear, Oil and
Gas, Petroleum and Polymer Industries reports on
a unique new project. A partnership of Imperial
College London, Constructionarium, Cogent Sector
Skills Council, Engineering Construction
Industry Training Board (ECITB) and Construction
Skills, received funding from the National HE
STEM Programme and the Royal Academy of
Engineering to develop the Nuclear Island
programme.
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The Engineer online: Report calls for clear supply chain for offshore wind
www.theengineer.co.uk: 17 June 2011
A
report by the Royal Academy of Engineering and
OrbisEnergy outlines ways in which the
government can support the industry in four key
areas: infrastructure, skills, investment and
health and safety.
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UK needs supply chain to reap benefits of wind energy
www.offshorewind.biz: 16 June 2011
The
UK needs to create a supply chain in order to
reap the economic benefits of the wind energy
revolution, according to a report published
today. Making green growth real: UK offshore
wind supply chain outlines the conclusions of a
meeting of the offshore wind industry convened
by the Royal Academy of Engineering and
OrbisEnergy, the East of England technology,
innovation and incubation hub for offshore
renewables.
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The Telegraph online: Alex Salmond's green energy policy 'will double power bills'
www.telegraph.co.uk: 16 June 2011
The
emeritus professor of energy conversion at
Newcastle University and founding chairman of
the New and Renewable Energy Centre, said the
benefits of green energy have been “over-hyped”.
Citing a series of recent expert reports,
including one by the Royal Academy of
Engineering, he said: “Nuclear-generated
electricity is the cheapest generated
electricity.
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The Times online: Wind has the power to be North Sea oil Mark II
www.thetimes.co.uk: 13 June 2011
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The Telegraph online: Boris Johnson writes about the use of canals
www.telegraph.co.uk: 13 June 2011
Prof Falconer and other engineering experts will
be having a conference later this year, at the
Royal Academy of Engineering, to discuss a water
grid. Their ideas need careful thought, but I
like what I hear.
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The Times online: Groundbreaking computer gaming system wins award
www.thetimes.co.uk: 9 June 2011
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Engineer who lets ‘buildings breathe’ wins top industry award
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk: 7 June 2011
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald has been awarded one of four
2011 Silver Medals by the Royal Academy of
Engineering for his outstanding and demonstrated
personal contribution to British Engineering,
resulting in marketplace success.
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The Engineer online: Kinect developers win MacRobert Award
www.theengineer.co.uk: 7 June 2011
The five engineers from Microsoft Research
Cambridge received the £50,000 MacRobert Award
last night at the RAE’s annual awards dinner in
London.
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Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards
www.eurograduate.com: 11 May 2011
Leading female engineers have been recognised
for their achievements in industry and academia
at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the
Royal Academy of Engineering in London.
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Guardian online: Laurence Williams FREng takes part in a nuclear debate
www.guardian.co.uk: 27 April 2011
George Monbiot, Helen Caldicott and Laurence
Williams join host James Randerson to debate the
future of the UK's nuclear programme following
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
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The Engineer online: Twenty Ingenious projects receive between £3,000 and £30,000
www.theengineer.co.uk: 15 April 2011
The X Factor, music festivals, knitting. Three
things most people wouldn’t usually associate
with engineering. Yet these are just some of the
ideas behind the Royal Academy of Engineering’s
latest round of public engagement events.
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Guardian online: How do synthetic biologists keep the support of the public?
www.guardian.co.uk: 15 April 2011
The science minister, David Willetts, gave an
address this morning to an international
gathering of researchers who are in London for a
symposium on synthetic biology. The event is a
UK-US-Chinese collaboration, bringing together
the science and engineering academies from those
three countries.
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Female engineer heads up Engineering Council
www.womenintechnology.co.uk: 13 April 2011
A female engineer has become the first woman to
be appointed as president of the Engineering
Professors' Council (EPC) in its 50-year
history. In 2007, Professor Atkinson was elected
as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
one of just 29 women among more than 1,400 men.
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The Times online: New international engineering award
www.thetimes.co.uk: 11 April 2011
Lord Browne of Madingley, President of the Royal
Academy of Engineering, said: “We warmly welcome
the formation of a new international prize for
engineering as a stimulus for ingenuity and
endeavour.”
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The Engineering Engagement Project (free resources)
www.stemnet.org.uk: 11 April 2011
Inspiring future generations to follow careers
in Engineering is vital to supporting the UK’s
future economic and industrial success. This
message, already championed by STEMNET and the
Royal Academy of Engineering, was recently
outlined in the HM treasury/ BIS plan for
growth.
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The Times online: Sports conference held at the Academy
www.thetimes.co.uk: 8 April 2011
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Researchers develop golden window electrodes for organic solar cells
www2.warwick.ac.uk: 6 April 2011
Researchers at the University of Warwick have
developed a gold plated window as the
transparent electrode for organic solar cells.
Contrary to what one might expect, these
electrodes have the potential to be relatively
cheap since the thickness of gold used is only 8
billionths of a metre.
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BBC Online: Social mobility: Clegg to pledge 'fair chance' for all
www.bbc.co.uk: 5 April 2011
Various professional organisations, including
the Royal Academy of Engineering, Association of
Chartered, Certified Accountants and Channel 4,
have already signed up. The "compact" also calls
on companies to take part in mentoring schemes,
send staff into schools to talk about their
careers and ensure they recruit "openly and
fairly".
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The Engineer online: Government announces Nobel-style engineering prize
www.theengineer.co.uk: 30 March 2011
The Royal Academy of Engineering said it hoped
that the prize would inspire a renaissance of
engineering achievement that would be essential
to create sustainable economic growth.
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FT online: Consequences of GPS failure
www.ft.com: 22 March 2011