Academy in the News

• Research Beyond Borders
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 11 March 2010
  Luckily, Britain’s leading academies turned out to be recruiting young researchers from around the globe. In 2008, the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society launched the Newton International Fellowship funding scheme. The idea was (and still is) to attract the best foreign researchers to work at British Universities.

• UK Focuses on GPS Jamming and Interference
  www.insidegnss.com: 11 March 2010
  The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched a study into “GNSS Reliance and Vulnerabilities, and last week the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network (DSKTN) in partnership with the Royal Institute of Navigation organized a symposium on the subject, “GPS Jamming & Interference — A Clear and Present Danger.”

• Timesonline: Change the world, be an engineer
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 10 March 2010
  At the Royal Academy of Engineering we have embarked on a process — we have called it Engineering the Future — to bring engineering institutions closer together in order to articulate a coherent vision for engineering in society. That is a start. But we are clear that changing the role of engineering in society requires a different outlook on how best to educate and train a new generation of engineers.

• Raising the profile of engineering
  www.telegraph.co.uk: 8 March 2010
  The Royal Academy of Engineering (founder and senior fellow Prince Philip) wants to attract more young people 'from a diverse range of backgrounds' as part of a programme to raise the profile of the profession, increase the output from universities and make a bigger contribution to Britain's economic recovery.

• Times online: Engineers can make things better
  timesonline.typepad.com: 5 March 2010
  The Royal Academy of Engineering’s making things better campaign will look to increase the relationship between engineering and our society. The campaign aims to raise £16.5 million for the Academy’s education and engagement work and to create a national Forum for Engineering. The campaign launches at a time when recent figures show the UK will need to recruit an estimated 325,000 new engineers and technicians into manufacturing by 2017, according to the latest Engineering UK statistical forecasts.

• Industrialists and academics have teamed up to teach workers the skills they need
  www.independent.co.uk: 25 February 2010
  The initiative has been welcomed at the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the umbrella body for engineers of all disciplines. "This is a great example of forward thinking, and companies working together with academia to produce a bespoke course," says Ian Bowbrick, head of professional formation at the RAEng.

• Newton International Fellowships
  www.financialexpress.com: 5 February 2010
  The fellowships programme is run by the British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. The scheme covers the broad range of natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities.

• New treatment hope by 'painting the colors of the heart'
  www.physorg.com: 26 January 2010
  Additionally, Dr Schlindwein has also been awarded an industry secondment by the Royal Academy of Engineering, worth £15,000, for the same collaborative research involving St. Jude Medical U.K. and Departments of Cardiovascular Sciences and Engineering at the University of Leicester.

• Timesonline: Roof-mounted wind turbines ‘no help in reducing carbon’
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 20 January 2010
  Roof-mounted wind turbines and solar panels are “eco-bling” that allow their owners to flaunt their green credentials but contribute very little towards meeting Britain’s carbon reduction targets, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Guardian: Eco-bling and retrofitting won't meet emissions targets, warn engineers
  www.guardian.co.uk: 20 January 2010
  In a report published today by the Royal Academy of Engineering, experts called for a "step-change" in retrofitting old buildings to make them waste less energy. They also want funding for a study to work out how many workers will need to be trained in order to meet the demand for designing and building the number of energy-efficient buildings required to meet government targets.

• BBC: Buildings threaten UK emission targets, report says
  news.bbc.co.uk: 20 January 2010
  The Royal Academy of Engineering report lays out a groundwork for reducing the environmental impact of new buildings as well as refurbishment of old ones. It added there was a serious skills gap in the sector that could grow worse.

• Mailonline: Homeowners wasting money on 'eco-bling'
  www.dailymail.co.uk: 20 January 2010
  The warning came at the launch of a major report from the Royal Academy of Engineering into the future of green buildings.

• Prizewinning software could reduce missed breast cancer cases
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 18 January 2010
  Speaking at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, he said: “Mammograms are notoriously difficult to interpret, even experienced radiologists evaluate scans differently, so automating the system would make the process much more reliable.”

• Future of mobile phone use: Professor William Webb FREng talks on BBC world service (click on Listen Now and scroll through to 10 minutes).
  www.bbc.co.uk: 6 January 2010

• FT Copenhagen forum – was the first week a waste of time?
  blogs.ft.com: 15 December 2009
  FT Energy Source is posting a daily question for our panel of expert commentators. Below are responses from panel members Vivienne Cox of Climate Change Capital, Lord Browne of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Jeremy Leggett of Solarcentury and Julian Morris of The International Policy Network...

• FT Copenhagen forum – are NGOs in danger of sabotaging the talks?
  blogs.ft.com: 15 December 2009
  FT Energy Source is posting a daily question for our panel of expert commentators. Below are responses from panel members Kyoto carbon markets architect Graciela Chichilnisky, Jeremy Leggett of Solarcentury, Lord Browne of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Vivienne Cox of Climate Change Capital...

• FT Copenhagen forum - Raising temperatures and offers
  blogs.ft.com: 15 December 2009
  FT Energy Source is posting a daily question for our panel of expert commentators. Below, guest panellists Vivienne Cox of Climate Change Capital, Mindy Lubber of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, Jeremy Leggett of the Global Observatory, Julian Morris of the International Policy Network, Lord Browne of the Royal Academy of Engineering and David Jones of Havas respond to today’s question...

• Engineering Diploma letter to The Times
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 7 December 2009
  Through the Education for Engineering Group at the Royal Academy of Engineering, I know that the engineering community has been behind the engineering diploma from its inception because it provides a vocational yet authentic, academically rigorous pathway into engineering.

• HRH The Duke of Edinburgh's personal view on engineering
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 4 December 2009
  From The Times December 4, 2009 A degree of passion is what’s needed most The Black & Decker Workmate, the folding bicycle – we must allow the talent of our ‘hands-on’ enthusiasts to flourishThe Duke of Edinburgh 22 Comments Recommend? (17) I experienced my first exposure to engineering when I joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1939. We were required to keep a “Midshipman’s Journal” in which we recorded our daily activities from our instructional courses to life at sea. My journal includes several engineering drawings — which shows that I must have been paying attention.

• Paying the Price
  www.ft.com: 3 December 2009
  Producing carbon makes economic sense. That is what we have said through our actions [since the industrial revolution],” says Lord Browne, former chief executive of BP, the oil group, and president of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Climate change strategy rests on reform and US support
  www.ft.com: 3 December 2009
  "You must have something . . . decided on [carbon trading]," said Lord Browne, former chief executive of energy group BP and now president of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. But he stressed the mechanism must be improved, a position most in the carbon industry would agree with.

• Climate change to lash Britain with tropical storms
  www.timesonline.co.uk: 26 November 2009
  Part of the answer could lie in huge civil engineering projects. The Royal Academy of Engineering held a conference on “extreme flooding” earlier this month at which it discussed ideas such as building huge storm drains under roads.

• New Statesman: 20 green heroes and villains
  www.newstatesman.com: 20 November 2009
  On 7 December, world leaders and negotiators will meet in Copenhagen to discuss the future of our planet. As the debate intensifies, the New Statesman’s panel of environmental experts have chosen their heroes and villains – politicians, activists, companies and institutions.

• A single voice on UK engineering education
  www.voltimum.co.uk: 20 November 2009
  Hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the group known as Education for Engineering (E4E) will enable the engineering profession to speak with a single voice to provide clear and cohesive advice in all matters relating to education in engineering. E4E membership is made up of the Professional Engineering Institutions, the ETB, ECuk and The Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Drain Brains
  www.theengineer.co.uk: 20 November 2009
  It rains in Britain in the summer; persistently and, until relatively recent years, predictably. The summer weather systems would see periods of good weather interspersed with weather fronts sweeping from Cornwall up towards the north-east coast, trailing curtains of rain.

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