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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.