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• 'We shouldn't believe that biofuels are a silver bullet'
  www.timeshighereducation.co.uk: 08 May 2008
  As world food prices soar to the highest levels since the Second World War, the finger is being pointed, at least in part, at Western demand for biofuels.

• Pupils engineer a bright future
  icwales.icnetwork.co.uk: 30 April 2008
  A team of engineering boffins at Neath Port Talbot College has helped Corus develop a new system for treating water at the plant. Their creation secured the A-level students runners-up place in the best working model or prototype category at the Engineering Education Scheme Wales Awards. 

• Let’s go lunar roving
  www.ballard.co.uk: 28 April 2008
  Space engineer Dr Yang Gao of the Surrey Space Centre is to develop a new generation of lunar rovers with one of China’s top engineers, funded by The Royal Academy of Engineering. The project will pave the way for future moon shots such as the UK proposed Moonraker lander mission and the second phase of China’s Chang’e programme.

• Engineering: New way forward
  www.independent.co.uk: 24 April 2008
  An exciting new engineering diploma is about to hit the classroom, says the director of education programmes at The Royal Academy of Engineering.

• 160 Sixth-formers display engineering skills at open day
  www.newsguardian.co.uk: 23 April 2008
  Sixth form students from the north east, Cumbria and Yorkshire displayed their engineering skills at an open day supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers. A total of 160 students in teams of four took part in the event, held at the University of Newcastle and organised by the Engineering Education Scheme.

• EMdot has been awarded the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs prize
  icsuttoncoldfield.icnetwork.co.uk: 22 April 2008
  The students had previously taken part in one of 15 free Airbus in-school training days which were delivered by The Smallpeice Trust, as part of the firm's partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering's Best Programme.

• New drive to enthuse more young people about engineering
  presszoom.com: 18 April 2008
  The TH Barton Innovation Fund will support outreach work within the University's Faculty of Engineering, including a range of activities for both primary and secondary school children on campus and in local schools. Events will also be run in conjunction with charities, local and national engineering bodies and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Engineering Mission for the young
  www.nwemail.co.uk: 18 April 2008
  The Royal Academy of Engineering selected Barrow as the first area to start a collaborative project. It aims to help more young people experience and understand engineering and aspire to choose it as a career. The BEST Engineering Programme, Better Engineering, Science and Technology, will be run at secondary schools, Furness College and Barrow Sixth Form College.

• Prize winning electro-technology
  www.theengineer.co.uk: 11 April 2008
  Queen Mary University's newest spin out company, EMdot, has been awarded the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs prize.

• HEFCE secures physics collaboration in South East England
  www.hefce.ac.uk: 9 April 2008
  Professor Eastwood told the HEFCE conference at the University of Warwick that as well as supporting greater research collaboration, HEFCE was making impressive progress in working with partners to stimulate interest in science subjects. HEFCE had provided £15 million for demand-raising work. Four projects - Chemistry for our future, led by the Royal Society of Chemistry; Stimulating Physics, led by the Institute of Physics; the London Engineering Project, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Biotech, IT innovations compete for 2008 Millennium Technology Prize
  english.people.com.cn: 9 April 2008
  The finalists for the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize have been announced at a press conference held at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on Tuesday.

• Manchester highly commended for 'green' education initiative
  www.manchester.ac.uk: 7 April 2008
  The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) sponsored programme in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) was highly commended in the course category in the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Green Gown Awards.

• Civil and environmental engineering – building a better world
  www.independent.co.uk: 4 April 2008
  After finishing my A-levels, I chose to take part in the Year in Industry scheme run by the Royal Academy of Engineering. This consisted of a year working for a global, multi-disciplinary engineering firm. It was really good. I got exposure to some huge projects, as well as getting a project to call my own. It was the first time that I was ever given responsibility in a job, which made me enthusiastic about getting started with my degree.

• Big draw is a huge success
  www.lichfield.co.uk: 31 March 2008
  The award was presented in London at a ceremony hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering at The Royal Society on March 12, where Lichfield District Council's Arts Development received £100 and a commemorative certificate drawn by leading illustrator and Campaign patron Quentin Blake. Their winning event is illustrated in the Campaign's new book, which will be sent to thousands of museums, galleries, heritage sites, schools and community spaces as inspiration for the 2008 Big Draw.

• Bridge the gap between engineers and the boardroom
  www.processingtalk.com: 31 March 2008
  The Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) Society is offering bursaries to fund one year's tuition at a top business school Set up by Lord Sainsbury in 1987 and administered by The Royal Academy of Engineering, the scholarships are awarded to up to 14 outstanding young engineers each year

• Olympic lesson for Litcham students
  www.derehamtimes.co.uk: 20 March 2008
  Pupils from Litcham High School were among 400 students given an exciting introduction to the sport, ethics and engineering of the Olympic Games by former Olympic high jumper Geoff Parsons. They were attending a Royal Academy of Engineering lecture, supported by Setpoint Norfolk and the British Olympic Foundation, at the John Innes Centre.

• Students' project comes second in national competition
  www.granthamjournal.co.uk: 19 March 2008
  Lorna Filby, Louisa Gallimore and Kate Walters, of Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, were runners up at the National Young Scientists and Engineers Fair 2008, held in London last Friday.

• Nanomaterials in cosmetics should be assessed case by case
  www.nanotech-now.com: 10 March 2008
  The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP) studied the use of nanotechnology in cosmetics after the UK's Royal Society & Royal Academy of Engineering concluded that nanomaterials should be treated as new chemicals from a risk assessment point of view.

• Where do we get our dam engineers?
  www.waterpowermagazine.com: 7 March 2008
  The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering reported more than a year ago that the number of young people studying for engineering degrees had fallen sharply and, of those that took the qualification, only half entered the engineering profession.

• Wednesday’s Question Time
  www.nebusiness.co.uk: 29 February 2008
  During Wednesday’s Question Time, Mr Kumar cited a Royal Academy of Engineering report which said the UK would lose out to its rivals within the next 10 years if more homegrown engineers were not found.

• A star runner by accident
  www.journallive.co.uk: 26 February 2008
  This summer she will travel to America to train at Stanford University and recce the universities offering her a PhD. An award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (she was also a finalist in the 2005 Young Engineers for Britain) is funding her summer but the scholarship that will eventually allow her to study in the States will reward her athletic prowess.

• The next big thing
  www.guardian.co.uk: 25 February 2008
  While still at school, Milton won her first accolade, the Young Engineers of Britain National Award. This was for designing a multi-sensory-tuned outdoor percussion instrument, based on sound therapy for children with autism. In 2007 she won the Engineering Leadership Award 2007, which was presented to her by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Top prize for young engineers
  www.eveningstar.co.uk: 20 February 2008
  Young engineers from a Suffolk school have scooped the top prize in a national robotics competition. Now the Young Engineers Club at Trimley St Martin Primary is hoping to get to an international event in Atlanta in America - if the group of budding technophiles can land around £10,000 in sponsorship.

• The reel story behind the building of a bridge
  www.gazettelive.co.uk: 19 February 2008
  Students at Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) are producing a documentary film which follows the construction of the bridge, whilst students from Conyers School in Yarm are taking part in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s engineering education scheme (EES).

• Technology's Grand Challenges for Engineering
  www.telegraph.co.uk: 18 February 2008
  Lord Broers, a past president of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, was on the international advisory committee for the year-long project.

• REF consultation: academe's concerns
  www.timeshighereducation.co.uk: 14 February 2008
  "Research assessment should include a light-touch peer review," said the submission from the Royal Academy of Engineering, which highlighted "significant problems" with the current proposed metrics system for engineering, given that the subject does not use citations to the extent others do.