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Radio4:You and Yours - Funding Science and Engineering (chapter 7)
www.bbc.co.uk: 25 August 2010
Scientists and Engineers usually present a
common front when it comes to funding and
supporting each others endeavours but the Royal
Society has reacted angrily to the Royal Academy
of Engineering's plea to the government to show
funding favour to the 'doers' rather than the
'thinkers'.
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Mail online: Has the spark gone out of electric cars?
www.dailymail.co.uk: 23 August 2010
'To build the infrastructure we would need is
possible,' says Professor Roger Kemp, lead
author of the RAE report. 'But it requires a
mobilisation of national effort on the scale
that went into fighting World War II, when
industry was devoted to building things like
Spitfires and Lancasters: total commitment. It's
more likely to happen in the sort of environment
they had in East Germany before the Berlin Wall
came down. I just don't think you can do it by
fiddling with taxes and incentives, and hoping
that the private sector can sort it out.'
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IndianTimesonline: Adopt commercial approach to research
timesofindia.indiatimes.com: 19 August 2010
Universities need to shed their traditional
academic approach in favour of an
entrepreneurial disposition towards commercially
realising their scientific research base, said
Sir William Wakeham, Fellow of the Royal Academy
of Engineering, UK and former vice chancellor of
the University of Southampton, here on Friday
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Clean water bottle wins UK leg of James Dyson Award
www.bbc.co.uk: 5 August 2010
Professor Matthew Harrison, who is one of the
judges and also director of education programmes
at the Royal Academy of Engineering, commented:
"Pure provides a practical solution to a real
problem - how to get clean drinking water in the
most hostile of conditions.
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'Healthier means smarter', says Academy researcher
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk: 5 August 2010
mc currently holds a Royal Academy of
Engineering Senior Research Fellowship,
sponsored by Microsoft Research, and a
significant proportion of her research is
directed towards the impact of environment on
the discovery and innovation process, especially
factors which hinder creation.
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FT online: Fight for science funding disturbs cosy world
www.ft.com: 29 July 2010
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FT online: Common room clashes with boardroom over science cuts
www.ft.com: 29 July 2010
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The Engineer online: Engineers must grab their share of the limelight
www.theengineer.co.uk: 20 July 2010
The reasons for ’why engage?’ are as diverse as
the projects funded by the latest round of
Ingenious, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s
grant scheme that aims to help engineers gain
the confidence and communication skills to
engage the public. The scheme has recently
announced its awards for 2010 – 16 creative
projects that will give more than 380 engineers
the opportunity to reach out to thousands of
young people and adults.
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The Engineer: Taking charge - building Britain's electric car infrastructure
www.theengineer.co.uk: 1 July 2010
’This all comes down to the Climate Change Act
2008,’ said Prof Roger Kemp of Lancaster
University, one of the authors of a recent
report from the Royal Academy of Engineering
(RAEng) on the issues connected with electric
cars.
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Times online: 50 Years of Lasers
timesonline.typepad.com: 18 June 2010
Nobel prize winners Charles Kao (inventor of
optical fibre) and Charles Townes (inventor of
the laser) are in London this week to celebrate,
with the Royal Academy of Engineering, 50 years
of laser technology and the way it has
revolutionised communication. John Midwinter,
Emeritus Pender Professor at University College
London, led BT's effort to commercialise the new
communication medium.
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London Engineering Project wins Education Partnership Award
www.ioe.ac.uk: 10 June 2010
The LEP Awards, now in their fourth year,
recognise and reward innovative initiatives to
transform the life prospects of London's young
people and adults and enable more of them to go
on to higher education. The award is run by the
IOE. Winners ranged from a partnership of five
Lambeth primary schools to a leading law firm.
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Times online: Academy Public Engagement Fellow, Dr David James, talks about engineering advantages of paralympic athletes
www.timesonline.co.uk: 10 June 2010
Speaking at The Times Cheltenham Science
Festival, David James, a sports engineer at
Sheffield Hallam University, said that
prosthetic J-shaped blades used by athletes such
as the sprinter Oscar Pistorius already
surpassed the performance of human limbs.
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BBC online: Inmarsat grabs the MacRobert engineering prize
news.bbc.co.uk: 8 June 2010
The UK's top engineering prize has been won by
Inmarsat, for its Broadband Global Area Network
(BGAN) service. Inmarsat's team was awarded the
prize for having successfully overcome
"formidable" engineering challenges. The BGAN
service comprises a network of satellites which
offer near global coverage for voice and data
calls. The MacRobert Prize is awarded by the
Royal Academy of Engineering to recognise
innovative ideas.
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Times online: Engineering isn't dead, it's flourishing
timesonline.typepad.com: 8 June 2010
The UK's engineering industry is on its knees.
The latest recession has dealt the deathblow.
All that remains is to bury it. Everyone knows
that. Everyone, that is, except the thirty
thousand companies in our source database of
potential entrants for the Royal Academy of
Engineering MacRobert Award - the UK's premier
award for engineering innovation. Most of them
companies that not even engineers have heard of.
Many of them world leaders in their specialised
field of endeavour.
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Academy Industrial Secondment
www.cs.bris.ac.uk: 7 June 2010
Dr Kerstin Eder has been awarded a Royal Academy
of Engineering Industrial Secondment to work
with XMOS on "State of the Art Power-Aware
System Design". From October 2010 onwards Dr
Eder will be working for one year alongside
engineers at XMOS investigating energy efficient
system design from silicon to software.
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Podcast: Gareth Jones TV reviews the Academy's 'Electric Vehicles' report
www.whizzbang.tv: 3 June 2010
Gareth Jones came to the Academy to talk with
Richard Ploszek about the report 'Electric
Vehicles: charged with potential'. the resulting
podcast lasts five minutes and there is more
Gareth Jones interviews at:
http://www.garethjones.tv/indexgj.html
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BBC online: Promise, but daunting challenges for electric cars
news.bbc.co.uk: 26 May 2010
In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of
Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task
involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity
supply - with a mix of energy efficiency,
renewables, nuclear and clean coal. This new
report adds urgency to the calls for decisions
as soon as possible.
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Guardian online: Electric cars cannot cut CO2 emissions on their own
www.guardian.co.uk: 26 May 2010
Royal Academy of Engineering calls for clarity
from coalition government on plans to
incentivise mass introduction of electric
vehicles.
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Telegraph online: Turning all cars electric in Britain needs boost in power supply
www.telegraph.co.uk: 26 May 2010
The Royal Academy of Engineering said that to
convert the countries fleet of 30 million
vehicles would increase current demand by 16 per
cent or an extra 10 gigawatts of power.
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Daily Mail:Why the lights will go out in Britain
www.dailymail.co.uk: 25 May 2010
If you do not believe me about the gravity of
the threat, read the energy report published two
months ago by the Royal Academy of Engineering
(RAE). This presents a terrifying picture of
government inertia and folly. It emphasises the
perils of the sort of wittering proudly promised
by Chris Huhne.
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Guardian podcast: Dr Paterson talks about public engagement on Synthetic Biology (at 21 minutes)
www.guardian.co.uk: 24 May 2010
Alok Jha and an expert panel discuss the
significance of Craig Venter's creation of an
artificial life form. Is it the landmark
scientific study it seems?
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Reducing food waste to landfill
www3.imperial.ac.uk: 20 May 2010
Professor Grimes, SITA and Royal Academy of
Engineering Professor of Waste Management, said:
“The collection and disposal of food waste
presents a major problem in attempts to divert
organic waste from landfill. Our research brings
together fundamental chemical, biological and
engineering principles to tackle this problem
and it’s been very satisfying to see our concept
translate directly into a practical green
solution here on our own campus. The CompPod is
a unique system for in-situ treatment of total
food waste, delivering a business solution that
contributes to the College’s mission on
sustainable waste management.”
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Telegraph online: Happy 50th birthday to the laser
www.telegraph.co.uk: 11 May 2010
Today, however, Maiman is getting his due. That
first laser – which emitted a beam for the first
time on May 16, 1960 – will be brought out of a
safe-deposit box to be the star attraction at a
conference at Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver at the end of this week. The museum at
MIT has also marked the anniversary with a laser
show set to what its British director, John
Durant, calls "Pink Floyd-ish" music, and events
are planned in – among other places – Naples,
Kiev, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Damascus and the
Royal Academy of Engineering in London
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BBC Online: Prosthetic vies for high-tech award
news.bbc.co.uk: 10 May 2010
A prosthetic foot that mimics the muscle actions
of real feet has been short-listed for the UK's
top engineering prize.
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Sports Venue Design Competition winner
www.arup.com: 7 May 2010
In partnership with SportsAid, the Construction
Youth Trust and the Royal Academy of
Engineering, Arup invited students aged 12-14
from across London to design and submit plans
for a new sports venue.
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New Scientist: Political parties outline engineering policies
www.newscientist.com: 5 May 2010
The Royal Academy of Engineering magazine
Ingenia invited representatives from the main
political parties to tell its readers why
engineering is important. Here are their
responses.
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The Engineer: Nuclear newbuild
www.theengineer.co.uk: 4 May 2010
Ion highlights a recent study by the Royal
Academy of Engineering, which indicates that
pushing ahead with renewables, and particularly
offshore wind, will mean the UK must build the
equivalent of 38 London Arrays – which is
planned to generate 1,000MW of power with 341
wind turbines – and 1,000 Pelamis wave devices,
as well as a nuclear component, in order to
reach its energy targets.
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Telegraph: Joint letter from the Academy and others calling on the party leaders to debate science and technology funding
www.telegraph.co.uk: 28 April 2010
How does Gordon Brown have the nerve to ask the
country to make him respectable by finally
electing him to fill one of the highest offices
of state? He has presided over our worst
financial crisis since 1945. He blames “global
forces”, while remaining in utter denial that he
precipitated the crisis by removing financial
control of the banks by the Bank of England.
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Academy gives UK engineering education advice
www.tcetoday.com: 21 April 2010
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)
has called on the government to work with
university engineering departments, industry and
professional bodies to provide engineering
graduates for the future.
