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Tall tales - teaching engineers to tell stories
17 July 2008
Engineers will soon be learning to tell stories - in a project funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious award. The 'Digital Storytelling' project will train early-career engineers in the art of personal narrative and film-making, capturing the stories and combining audio and still images using new technology...
Students have their say on how technology and engineering is driving change across the globe
15 July 2008
The winners and finalists of The Independent-Bosch Technology Horizons Award 2008 competition attended a presentation ceremony held recently at The Royal Academy of Engineering. The ceremony, hosted by former Tomorrow's World presenter Kate Bellingham, President of Young Engineers, also featured presentations from Richard Noble OBE, project director of Thrust SSC, Professor Bill O'Riordan FREng, former chief scientist of Fujitsu/ICL and Steve Connor, Science Editor at The Independent newspaper
Academy announces new Fellows for 2008
09 July 2008
Queen Mary 2 designer Stephen Payne, international development champion Jo da Silva from Arup, and John Loughhead, leader of the UK Energy Research Centre, are among the 44 pioneering engineers elected this year to The Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy, which promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the UK, has elected leading engineers from commercial engineering including BAE Systems' Simon Howison, UK engineering leader for the Eurofighter Typhoon, and Timothy Leverton, who led JCB's record-breaking Dieselmax land speed project.
Royal event stars Diamond at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
27 June 2008
The new Diamond Light Source synchrotron was the star of the show at the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Soirée in Didcot last night. More than 150 distinguished guests including His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the Academy's Royal Fellow, attended the dinner at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.....
Promoting engineering co-operation between UK and Chinese academies
12 June 2008
One of China's leading figures in politics and engineering, Professor Xu Kuangdi, was presented with The Royal Academy of Engineering's International Medal at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Merchant Taylors' Hall, London on Monday 9 June. Professor Xu, who is President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of the Academy, Lord Browne, in the presence of the Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, intended to promote future co-operation between both academies...
World's first Bionic Hand grabs the UK's biggest engineering prize
10 June 2008
Touch Bionics, the Livingston-based inventors of the world's first commercially available bionic hand, the i-LIMB Hand, have won the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh presented the team with a £50,000 prize and the solid gold MacRobert Award medal at the Academy Awards Dinner at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London last night.
£13M Newton International Fellowships Launched
05 June 2008
A new multi-million pound initiative to fund research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers is launched by the Science Minister Ian Pearson today. The Newton International Fellowships aim to attract the most promising post-doctoral researchers working overseas in the fields of humanities, engineering, natural and social sciences...
Less is more for fire protection
05 June 2008
Dr Barbara Lane is a young engineer who has turned on its head the conventional wisdom on how to protect buildings during fires. Her revolutionary ideas, now being used in some of the world's most iconic new structures, show that less fire protection can be more, saving time and money as well as making buildings safer in the event of a fire.
Top of the Engineering league for Sport design
05 June 2008
Paul Westbury has arguably one of the best jobs in British engineering, combining his love of sport with unique engineering design skills. He leads the engineering group involved in some of the world's most important sporting venues, with completed projects including the O2 Arena, the 2006 Winter Olympics Oval in Turin, Arsenal's acclaimed Emirates Stadium and the recent redevelopment of Ascot Racecourse.
Flat-screen TVs... and beyond
05 June 2008
It's not every day that Microsoft buys your latest invention, but that's what happened to Dr Adrian Travis, a Cambridge academic. His idea for thin, wedge-shaped light guides has been snapped up by the computer industry colossus to drive a whole new way of interfacing with computers. The new light-guides can project and image light at the same time, enabling a host of products to improve the human-computer interface.
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