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Newsletter Winter 2018 UK's Most Promising Young Tech Entrepreneur Wins Launchpad Competition UK’s most promising young tech entrepreneur wins Launchpad Competition The 23-year-old inventor of an eco-friendly alternative to MDF and scale their businesses. It is immensely exciting to help won the Enterprise Hub’s fifth annual Launchpad Competition entrepreneurs with such promise meet their full potential.” - a nationwide search for the UK’s greatest engineering and technology entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 25. Rowan was one of four finalists to pitch live in front of over 100 attendees and a panel of judges: David Gammon HonFREng, CEO On 22 November, HRH The Princess Royal presented Rowan and founder of Rockspring; Ian Ritchie CBE FREng FRSE, Chairman Minkley, CEO and Co-Founder of Chip[s] Board, the JC Gammon of Iomart; Elspeth Finch MBE, Chair of the Innovators Network; Award at the competition’s final. This award provides £15,000 Paul Excell, Founder and CEO of Innovation Excelerated; and Josh of funding, plus training, mentoring and lifelong membership of Valman, CEO of RPD International, a multimillion manufacturing the Enterprise Hub. company that he started aged just 19. Rowan’s innovation is a wood substitute made from industrial Finalist Nate Macabuag, founder of Mitt, won the People’s potato waste. The judges were particularly impressed with his Choice Award, a £1,000 prize chosen by an audience and online thoughtful and ambitious plan, which is founded on the principles vote. Mitt builds and provides comfortable, functional and of a sustainable circular economy. affordable prosthetic upper limbs. Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS, chair of the judging The other two finalists were Connel MacLaughlin, the 19-year- panel, said: “The Enterprise Hub is in a unique position to give old Founder of Route Reports, which builds custom hardware independent and realistic advice to the best entrepreneurial and software for transport companies to predict and fix hazards; engineers who want to commercialise their world-class ideas and Rafaël Michali, the 23-year-old Founder of Caura, a next- generation tracker that unlocks molecular signatures to help athletes train smarter, optimise diet plans, and reduce injury risk. First held in 2013, the competition has helped innovators bring a variety of products to market. At the final, six previous winners and runners-up took to the stage to share their key milestones, including mOm Founder James Roberts. mOm designs mobile infant incubators for use in remote parts of the world. Since winning in 2015, the business has received £630,000 in seed funding and is now preparing to enter clinical trials. Top: HRH The Princess Royal with Nate Macabuag, the People’s Choice winner, Academy President Dame Ann Dowling, and CEO Dr Hayaatun Sillem Left: Rowan Minkley, winner of the Launchpad Competition President’s column 2 Academy roundup 15 Newsletter Public engagement 4 News of Fellows 15 Thought leadership 7 Obituaries 16 Winter 2018 Education and skills 10 Research and innovation 12 1 President's gaps could be transformational and would women working part-time and, alongside help innovative engineering businesses helping to set up Women in Science and column boost productivity and create jobs and Engineering 30 years ago, she continues to better social outcomes in the UK. champion the role of women in engineering to this day. She truly is an inspiration to the Of course, the Academy’s continued next generation of engineers. contribution to engineering R&D in the UK supports groundbreaking researchers There is much to look forward to in the at all stages of their career and invests new year. January sees the launch of This in connecting them with industry. At our is Engineering’s third season, building on annual Research Forum, held in November, our goal to inspire potential engineering Dame Julia King DBE FREng FRS, Baroness pioneers. The first two seasons’ films have Brown of Cambridge, reflected on being been viewed more than 26 million times so the Academy’s first Senior Research far and are reaching the target audience: Fellow and pointed out that for her the initial research indicates that 72% of young benefits of the award include a brilliant and people who have watched the films would On 22 November, many of our Fellows were lifelong mentor, and increased productivity, consider engineering as a career. among the 2,000 guests who attended visibility and confidence. These comments a national service to celebrate the Year were echoed throughout the event, with I also hope that, next year, I will continue of Engineering at Westminster Abbey. current researchers speaking about the to have the opportunity to meet with Those who joined the Secretary of State value of the mentoring they receive from Fellows across the UK and further afield. I for Transport included representatives Fellows and the importance of academic– am looking forward to seeing many of you from the engineering community, local industry partnerships in developing and at Fellows’ Day on 4 February – a significant schools and government officials. I was delivering on the strategic priorities of event in the Academy’s calendar that honoured to be given the opportunity to business. I was extremely pleased to gives Fellows the opportunity to meet up deliver the main address, paying tribute to hear many highlight the power of the with other Fellows and staff, and to learn those engineers throughout history who Academy brand in helping them to attract more about the Academy’s work and how have shaped our landscape, improved our further funding for their research and in they can get involved. Until then, Merry lives and made the world a better place supporting their career development. Christmas and a Happy New Year! for humans to live in. It was also an ideal opportunity to highlight the importance In November, the Academy also of working together to inspire the next demonstrated one of ways that it invests in generation, as engineering will play a innovation with the final of the Enterprise central role in tackling the global challenges Hub’s fifth annual Launchpad Competition. Meetings and visitors that we will face in the years to come, such It was a privilege to have Royal Fellow HRH In her capacity as President, Dame as the effects of climate change and a The Princess Royal in attendance and to Ann has met: growing world population. show her and attendees how the Hub Sir Mark Walport FRS FRSE, with the other supports the UK’s most promising, young National Academy Presidents To ensure the next generation can engineering entrepreneurs. Winner Rowan address these challenges and improve Minkley and People’s Choice Awardee Nate She attended the following events our lives in the way that engineers Macabuag both received funding and Hub and meetings: throughout history have done, we must membership to help them kickstart their The School of Engineering, University of continue to invest in innovation. The entrepreneurial careers. Investing in people Lincoln government’s £1.6 billion investment in goes hand-in-hand with championing Engineering in REF 2021 consultation science and innovation, announced in innovation, with the Hub providing bespoke meeting the Autumn Budget, is an encouraging support and one-to-one mentoring from The Institution of Engineering and move in support of the industrial strategy Fellows to members to help them develop Technology President’s address and the aim to increase investment in their business skills on the journey to Delivered the Higginson Lecture at R&D to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. However, commercialising their technology. Durham University reaching this target also requires a step- North East Fellows’ visit and dinner change in business investment in R&D in The Fellowship itself is of course made up Newcastle University the UK. Recent Academy research with of many pioneers and entrepreneurs with Keynote speaker at Global Engineering industry leaders has investigated what their own unique journeys and success Congress influences their decisions about where stories. In November, Dame Stephanie International Advisory Board meeting to carry out R&D. The study showed that Shirley CH DBE FREng became the first with the Association of British Chinese many elements of UK support for R&D are woman to deliver the Hinton Lecture. She Professors excellent and are factors in businesses reflected on her life and career, arriving Attended the Council for Science and locating R&D here. However, there are a in England as an unaccompanied child Technology dinner with the Minister of number of areas where the UK incentive refugee in 1939, to founding an early State for Universities, Science, Research is poor – such as support for late-stage software company with just £6 in 1959, and Innovation, Sam Gyimah development and demonstration and which went on to employ 8,500 staff. Accepted an Honorary Degree at Royal the use of public procurement spend to When she established the company, Holloway, University of London and a support innovation. Addressing these Dame Shirley initially employed only tour of the Beatrice Shilling building 2 President's column New Fellows welcomed On 2 October, the new Fellows of 2018 were welcomed and formally inducted into the Academy. During the afternoon, the new Fellows were invited to Prince Philip House to learn more about the Academy’s key activities and strategic challenges from the President and CEO. A selection of new Fellows also gave short presentations that told their own stories and highlighted their successes as some of the UK’s most eminent engineers. After the briefing, over 170 Fellows and guests joined the evening celebrations at Drapers’ Hall. New Fellows were officially inducted during a brief ceremony that was followed by a dinner and speeches from the President and new Fellow Air Vice Marshal Sue Gray CB OBE FREng.
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