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Annual Review 2013-2014 ANNUAL REVIEW 2013/2014 Strategic priorities Contents As the UK’s national academy for engineering, we bring together the most successful and talented ANNUAL REVIEW engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering. We provide analysis and policy support to promote the UK’s role as a great place from Strategic priorities inside front cover which to do business. We take a lead on engineering education and we invest in the UK’s world class research base to underpin innovation. We work to improve public awareness and understanding of Forewords 2 engineering. We are a national academy with a global outlook and use our international partnerships to ensure that the UK benefits from international networks, expertise and investment. Drive faster and more balanced economic growth 4 The Academy’s programmes are driven by four strategic challenges, each of which provides a key contribution to a strong and vibrant engineering sector and to the health and wealth of society. Foster better education and skills 8 Lead the profession 12 Drive faster and more balanced Foster better education and skills economic growth The strategic challenge is to create a system of Promote engineering at the heart of society 16 The strategic challenge is to improve the capacity engineering education and training that satisfies of UK entrepreneurs and enterprises to create the aspirations of young people while delivering Building organisational capacity 20 innovative products and services, increase wealth the high-calibre engineers and technicians that and employment and rebalance the economy in businesses need. Academy event highlights 22 favour of productive industry. Promote engineering at the Academy publications 23 Lead the profession heart of society The strategic challenge is to harness the collective The strategic challenge is to improve public Highlights of the year by theme 24 expertise, energy and capacity of the engineering understanding of engineering, increase awareness profession to enhance the UK’s economic and of how engineering impacts on lives and increase social development. public recognition for our most talented engineers. Annex 26 The Royal Academy of Engineering Incorporated by Royal Charter View the online version of the Annual Review along with the full Financial Report and Accounts at: www.raeng.org.uk/about/annrev HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE Senior Fellow HRH The Princess Royal KG KT GCVO QSO Royal Fellow HRH The Duke of Kent KG GCMG GCVO Royal Fellow Sir John Parker GBE FREng President Contents 1 Forewords There has been a significant change Our international relations have Fellows can be justifiably proud of our excellence in UK engineering. This of attitude within government in seen significant development with role and achievements but we cannot year, we enjoyed the breathtaking recognising the value of engineering active collaboration with The Chinese slacken our pace. We have much more setting of London’s Battersea Power President in furthering wealth creation and Academy of Engineering and a to do to ensure that engineering is Chief Executive Station, thanks to support from jobs. The work of our Fellowship has renewed focus on working with our recognised at the heart of society Atkins, BAE Systems, Bosch, BP, JLR made a significant contribution to this European and US counterparts. Our and that engineering becomes the and Petrofac. The event took place and to the wider recognition of the work to support engineering capacity aspirational career of choice for our in the presence of Royal Fellow HRH role of professional engineering in UK and innovation in sub-Saharan young people. The Princess Royal and, in keeping society; we must now ensure that this Africa has been strengthened by the with the theme, was addressed by the opportunity translates into a significant creation of partnerships between In nominating Professor Dame Ann Chancellor of the Exchequer. rise in the number of young people universities and local industry in Dowling FREng to succeed me as choosing engineering as a career. A Zimbabwe and Dar es Salaam and President from September 2014, the The generosity of our Fellows, more united front with EngineeringUK, the launch of our Africa Prize for Council has chosen an outstanding donors and sponsors resulted in over supported by the professional Engineering Innovation. engineer to take our Academy forward £3.7 million in new commitments for institutions, is a must for the future. into this ever-changing but fascinating education, engagement and capital This year, we have made great strides world of global engineering challenges. projects. The Academy is enormously I have also been supported by the in developing a national forum for I wish all possible success and good grateful for the support we receive, services of a very capable and engineering in our refurbished wishes for Dame Ann and each of our which is crucial to the development of dedicated staff team, led by our Chief headquarters building. Our programme Fellows for the years ahead. the organisation and the growth in our Executive, Philip Greenish CBE. I am of events and meetings has brought impact and influence. grateful to them and have truly valued in a wide range of audiences, opinion Finally, I wish to place on record my their support. leaders and policymakers as well thanks to the Academy’s Senior The Academy constantly strives to as representatives from academia Fellow, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke improve the processes and systems Our natural alignment with business and industry. of Edinburgh. It was his deep interest that underpin all our work and is In September 2014, I shall step down and industry creates valuable in engineering that helped establish The Academy’s strengths lie in its essential to improve performance as President after just over three years partnerships that drive a programme of Following a review of governance, the Fellowship of Engineering in 1976; Fellowship and the partnerships forged and efficiency. I am deeply grateful in office. It has been a great honour. world-class engineering research. This the Council agreed recommendations since then, his enthusiastic, unflagging across the engineering profession, to those Fellows who have provided In this role, I have had the privilege of in turn brings the promise of creative to bring the Academy’s structure support has helped transform the business and industry and the wider their time and expertise in key areas working with some remarkable and new technology-driven businesses. and ways of working into line organisation into the fully fledged engineering community. of management. Their leadership and highly distinguished engineers to Our new Enterprise Hub provides with best practice. The Fellowship national academy it is today. It is with support for such projects is invaluable. develop the Academy’s strengths and a growing spectrum of support to voted to amend the Academy’s a great sense of pride that we named During the year, we led joint work pursue our mission. entrepreneurial researchers who Charter, Statutes and Regulations our building Prince Philip House in across the profession to influence A major programme to modernise the want to develop and commercialise accordingly, firstly at an Extraordinary honour of his role as Senior Fellow. education policy in areas most relevant Academy’s processes for managing We have seen considerable progress their brilliant innovations. The most General Meeting in April 2014 and to the formation of engineers. We grants and awards has established across all our strategic objectives, with valuable element is access to the subsequently by postal ballot. The Sir John Parker GBE FREng reviewed and then led the design of much-improved practice through the Academy having direct impacts on expertise and mentorship provided by outcome of that vote means that the President schools curricula in both computing and a new IT-based system and clearer government policy in education and Fellows who have deep experience of Academy will now move to a structure design and technology. This has had lines of accountability across all the skills where we have made a significant successful start-ups. More than 100 that will be in line with modern a direct and lasting impact on young schemes that involve the distribution contribution. The Academy’s work has of our Fellows have offered their very governance and support our ambitions people’s connection with engineering of funds. influenced policy and promoted debate valuable expertise to assist in creating for the future. concepts at school. on issues including the energy system, tomorrow’s companies. A root and branch review of the wind energy and the impacts of space The implementation of a review of Working with some 25 partners and Academy’s main website will, later in weather events. We have continued to work with membership will greatly enhance our supporters, the Engineering for Growth the year, provide us with a modern government to support the further process for electing new Fellows, the campaign highlighted how engineering platform for electronic communications We have built on last year’s increase development of a modern industrial lifeblood of our organisation who give supports society and the economy and services, such as the online in positive media coverage on strategy for the UK. In the aerospace the Academy some 12,000 hours through a series of events which booking of Academy events. A new set engineering matters. Some 100 million sector, the need to increase the supply of their time to provide leadership, received excellent media coverage. of functions in the Fellows’ area will people worldwide were reached by of highly skilled engineers has led to expertise and delivery. I am deeply create new ways for Fellows to engage news of the award of the first Queen industry and government funding a grateful to them all, including the Engineering for Growth was also the with the work of their Academy.
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