World's first electric digger wins 2020 MacRobert Award

On 9 July, JCB’s electric digger (19C-1E) was announced as the winner of the 2020 MacRobert Award, the most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation. The winning team received a £50,000 prize and a gold medal.

The 19C-1E is the world’s first volume-produced fully electric digger. To date, the current fleet has saved the equivalent of 15,100 kilograms in CO2 emissions across 5,616 hours of work. If it was used across the global construction sector, which contributes 39% of all carbon emissions, these savings could reach billions of tonnes. So quiet it can work in a library: a JCB electric digger (19C-1E), the world’s first fully electric digger, operating in a reading room in London’s Caledonian Club As well as significantly reducing carbon emissions, the electric engineering and technical specifications, the I-PACE has a range digger has zero exhaust emissions and very low noise levels. of up to 292 miles. Its core innovations include novel approaches This combination means it is better suited than traditional to battery, thermal management, and e-motor technology. The construction vehicles to operating inside buildings or in areas I-PACE was granted 40 significant patents for its innovative where noise must be kept to a minimum, for example near technology overall. hospitals and schools. JCB launched the digger in 2019 and has already sold hundreds of the . The MacRobert Award judges lauded JCB for demonstrating the utility of electric machines in a construction setting and the The winning team from JCB is: Tim Burnhope FREng, Chief potential for future innovation to boost sustainability in the Innovation Officer; Bob Womersley, Director of Advanced sector. The hope is that this entry could do for the construction Engineering; Lee Harper, Chief Engineer – Electrified Machines; sector what the double MacRobert Award winner Johnson Lee Milward, Design Manager; and Corey Smith, Test and Matthey did for the motor industry with the catalytic converter, Development Manager. which has stopped hundreds of millions of tonnes of pollution from entering the atmosphere. JCB was chosen as the winner from a shortlist of three finalists that included Babcock LGE’s ecoSMRT® and Jaguar Professor Sir Richard Friend FREng FRS, Chair of the Royal for the I-PACE. Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award judging panel, said: “JCB’s electric digger is a huge engineering achievement. Babcock LGE's ecoSMRT® dramatically improves the efficiency The team has developed all parts of the electric propulsion of transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) around the world. system to deliver system performance that matches real Ships carrying LNG must control the pressure of their LNG cargo, customer requirements... The digger is more than a great bit of as evaporation occurs in the tanks. The ecoSMRT® system engineering, however. It has the power to be the catalyst for captures and reliquefies this ‘boil-off’ gas, with significant change in an industry that is responsible for around 10% of all reductions in emissions compared with current technology. of the UK’s carbon emissions.” The ecoSMRT® system delivers up to a 50% reduction in carbon footprint, a 50% reduction in maintenance costs, 40% The win was featured on the BBC website and in Business Live, reduction in the physical space required, and improves power the , The Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Star, efficiency by up to 20% when compared with existing systems. as well as The Engineer.

Jaguar Land Rover's I-PACE is the world’s first premium battery- The Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award is electric sports utility vehicle (SUV). Revolutionary in its design, supported by The Worshipful Company of Engineers.

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1 COVID-19 Positive Response programme President's recent events across the globe that have celebrate the engineering innovators and highlighted just how far from an equal innovations that are making headway in At the start of lockdown, the Academy launched a Positive column and truly inclusive society we are. It tackling them. Our Awards Committee Response programme to support the contribution that goes without saying that with diversity recently judged applications for a new engineering and engineers can make to tackling the challenges and inclusion (D&I) embedded in our suite of awards to recognise engineers associated with COVID-19. values, and an established role leading who have helped address the challenges a D&I programme for the profession, of the pandemic, across all technical The programme covers three areas: brokerage; policy advice and the Academy stands wholeheartedly in specialities, disciplines, and career expertise; and funding and support through grant and delivery solidarity against racism and inequality. stages. The winners will be announced programmes. later this summer, and given the ongoing But these words, and maintaining our challenges of the pandemic, we expect to The Academy’s first profession-wide brokerage initiative D&I programme at the same scale, are make a further round of awards in 2021. asked Fellows, awardees and partners to help identify ideas, not enough. Our post-pandemic society In the meantime, we have announced the innovations, facilities and skills that could help the pandemic must be more inclusive, and so we must winner of our most prestigious award for response. The programme received almost 600 submissions seize the opportunity to build back better engineering innovation: the MacRobert that were triaged by experts and the ideas with the greatest Engineers at the Nightingale Hospital by redoubling our efforts to understand Award. As you will already have read in potential were supported through Academy networks in the experience of ethnic minorities in our this newsletter, winner JCB and finalists industry, academia and government. This included recruiting more widely through an Innovation in a crisis event series profession and what needs to be done to and Babcock's Liquid over 1,000 volunteers willing to be deployed as auxiliary chaired by Professor Mark Miodownik MBE FREng and Elspeth ensure that it is equal to the experience Gas Equipment have pioneered products engineers for field hospitals if required. The exercise highlighted Finch MBE. Online Q&As have covered the coordination efforts As the UK slowly emerges from lockdown of their majority colleagues. We have that will reduce the environmental impact the engineering dimensions of the crisis, enabling the Academy of the VentilatorChallengeUK, the teamwork between UCL and businesses begin reopening their an important role to play in this and my of their industries and transform the to pivot to focus on the problems faced by frontline medics and and Mercedes AMG, and the facility delivery and skills and doors, there has been much commentary thanks go to our D&I Committee, which sustainability of their sectors. government stakeholders to mobilise those skills and expertise technology deployment in the Nightingale hospitals. on what our ‘new normal’ will be and how oversees our programmes in this area. where they are needed most. the UK, and indeed the world, can ‘build As difficult as the last few months have The Academy has also been leveraging its international back better’ following this crisis. Another opportunity we have to build been, we must remain optimistic, and as In policy, the Academy has been supporting government with networks to share knowledge and foster collaboration between back better is to apply what we have engineers use our expertise in systems engineering advice. Drawing on the expertise across the NEPC, national experts across the world. The different engineering In the near term, reopening offices and learned from our response to the thinking, problem solving and innovating it has provided inputs to the Scientific Advisory Group for dimensions to the common challenges of PPE provision, testing venues, allowing people to meet others pandemic to an equally significant to shape a new, and better, normal. Emergencies on ventilation and hospital-acquired infection. The and digital contact tracing were openly explored through a and the resumption of travel pose many challenge: achieving net zero and programme has rapidly collated engineering evidence on PPE series of online meetings. questions that engineers can help mitigating the effects of climate Best wishes, manufacturing and reuse, restarting public transport, supply answer about how to do so in a way that change. Carbon emissions have dropped Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE chain challenges, and research and development investment for To share knowledge further, the Engineering X programme minimises the risk of further transmission significantly during lockdown, but the high-tech startups for a faster and better recovery. has launched a new Pandemic Preparedness programme. This of the virus, or the development of a benefit of that change in emissions focuses on understanding the role of engineers in response to second wave of infections. Many of our may yet be lost. We have the technical Alongside the reactive work, the Academy has been highlighting the global crisis and funding highly innovative, engineering- Academy Fellows and awardees are capability to address the global climate the medium-term engineering dimensions of the pandemic centred research and/or innovation proposals that aim to helping to shape the response, whether challenge, so as we restart our economy, to government through Engineering a resilient future. This tackle the most pressing challenges created by the COVID-19 through advising on how buildings and we can and should intensify our efforts in-depth paper investigates infrastructure interdependencies, pandemic. transport can be managed and adapted to to drive low-carbon innovation and create Meetings and visitors the role of research and development investment to ensure reduce virus transmission, or developing sustainable businesses. In his capacity as President, the future of the UK knowledge economy, and opportunities to Through Africa Prize alumni, the Academy has supported eight novel anti-viral coatings that could be Sir Jim has met with: learn from this crisis for future resilience. entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa to pivot or scale up their applied to frequently touched surfaces. The Academy is playing its role. The Professor Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng businesses. The £5,000 grants cross a range of themes from NEPC has assembled a diverse and Sir Mark Walport FRS FMedSci FRSE, with Additionally, the Academy has taken the opportunity to production of PPE and hand sanitiser to innovations to support The Academy, through its leadership accomplished group of engineering Dr Andrew Clark communicate some of the collaborative engineering successes home schooling and farming supply chain management. of Engineering Policy experts to offer regular advice to Professor Michael Kelly FREng FRS Amanda Sadacca, New York Academy of Centre (NEPC), continues to ensure government on how to achieve net zero Back in the UK, the Enterprise Hub set up an online event series, Sciences re: Blavatnik Award that engineering expertise on such by 2050. They will be providing evidence- Building future resilience, to provide support to engineering Ian McCubbin and Dave Tudor re: Vaccine topics is reaching leaders and officials based advice, identifying actions that Taskforce, with Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE and technology entrepreneurs from across the UK. The series in government and informing decision- can be taken now and in the future, from Professor Robin Grimes FREng FRS has covered three core areas: business resilience, funding, making. Recent inputs to government strategies to replace or retrofit heating Sir Adrian Smith and people and culture, with different experts sharing their have covered subjects including systems to decarbonising transport Dr Alan Whitehead, Labour MP expertise and reflecting on their own experiences. ventilation, hospital-acquired infection, systems and addressing energy- He attended the following events personal protective equipment (PPE) intensive industries. The response to the and meetings: This huge cross-Academy effort has shown that it can respond reuse, supply chain challenges, and pandemic has demonstrated how quickly Weekly meetings with Dr Hayaatun Sillem with agility to mobilise the global engineering community, research and development investment government, academia and industry National Academy President and CEOs leverage existing networks and build new relationships across for high-tech startups. Work undertaken can collaborate with common purpose meetings industry, academia and government to deliver meaningful alongside this has proactively highlighted to address challenges during a global Ministerial Roundtable on R&D Ambitions results in the face of a crisis. with Minister Amanda Solloway medium-term risks and opportunities that emergency. I am hopeful that we can CST meetings, including post COVID-19 policymakers should be aware of. bring the same spirit of unity, focus and To find out more about the positive response programme, visit subgroup action to the ongoing task of tackling National Academies call with Amanda www.raeng.org.uk/COVID19 One of the most troubling aspects of this climate change. Solloway MP and Dr Hayaatun Sillem Donations can help us to achieve more, thank you to those of crisis is how it has disproportionately Academy’s Nominations Committee you who have supported us already. To find out more about affected those from ethnic minorities. In the context of such pressing and Queen Elizabeth Prize Trustee Board how donations are helping our response or to make a donation, We have all, I’m sure, been moved by complex challenges, it is heartening to Meeting Diagram from the Engineering a resilient future paper please visit www.raeng.org.uk/covidresponse

2 President's column 3 Research and Academy entrepreneurs respond to COVID-19 innovation Within a few days of the coronavirus outbreak, the Academy’s Enterprise Hub businesses were responding innovatively, Virtual LIF events in Latin America adapting or pivoting their business models to support their local communities. In June, the Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) programme held four virtual in-country training events for its Latin American Daniel Elford – founder of Sonobex, which uses acoustic cohorts based in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. metamaterials to control noise levels, usually for industrial applications – responded to Lindhurst Engineering’s PPE4NHS Because of travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, this year’s campaign asking for help sourcing protective clothing. He found events were moved online for the first time and coordinated by the medically approved Verkstan visor design online and printed A screenshot from an interactive online session training provider FarStar. The online sessions were spread out 380 visors in the first week, using his small company’s eight 3D across four weeks, where usually they would be held over two The LIF programme supports engineering researchers and printers. Belfast-based medical technology firm Axial3D also days. Some were dedicated to reconnecting and networking, entrepreneurs from Newton Fund partner countries who are used its 3D-printing expertise to create face shields, swabs while others encouraged discussions around leadership in developing a business proposition for their innovations. It with bristles on the end, connectors for scuba masks (which are Clockwise from top left: Axial 3D, Hexigone, Vivacity and Sonobex community building or solving challenges together. begins with a two-week residential commercialisation course being used for emergency respirators) and parts for ventilators. in London and a year of follow-on support. Six months into AI startup Vivacity Labs has developed AI-powered sensor and The final session was a regional ‘unconference’ providing the the follow-on programme, a short event is held in each of the Hexigone Inhibitors, and CEO Patrick Dodds, produced hospital- optimisation technologies for traffic lights that respond to an opportunity for participants from the whole region to interact 16 partner countries, bringing back together each cohort of grade sanitiser. Closure of construction sites meant that the firm ever-changing road environment and all types of road-user. and share knowledge and experiences in peer-led sessions, 15 to provide further training and networking opportunities. – a chemical manufacturer that makes chromate-free corrosion Since early March, its network of over 1,000 sensors have which would not have been possible at the same scale in- Programme alumni, local role models and external inhibitors for coatings for buildings – had spare capacity in its produced detailed traffic and pedestrian flow analysis across person. In total 94 LIF participants attended the online events, stakeholders are also invited to attend to share their learnings large mixing vessels, normally used to make corrosion inhibitor. the UK for government to monitor during the pandemic and with 20 local role models and special guests also attending. and experiences. The firm has made more than 6,000 litres of sanitiser and is build up an understanding of how the response to lockdown is donating profits to Mental Health UK and local food banks. changing over time.

Academy CAFÉ Leverhulme Trust Senior Research • Dr Alison Jones, University of Leeds – Engineering The Academy has launched a new webinar series to provide engagement for research awardees and alumni and ensure they can Fellowships awarded tools for analysis of impingement in the human hip joint still benefit from the expertise and experience within the Academy’s network. In March, the Academy awarded Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships to five UK researchers. • Dr Carolina Font Palma, University of Chester – ICED: The Academy CAFÉ (connecting awardees, fostering engagement) will allow participants to share ideas, challenges and best integrated cryogenic separation for CO2 emissions practice in the current period and beyond. The webinars will feature an ‘in conversation with’ style discussion, with Q&As and These awards support academics to concentrate on full-time decrease smaller break-out room sessions for networking. research by funding a replacement academic to take over their teaching and administration duties for up to a year. • Dr Christopher Blenkinsopp, University of Bath – The first event will be about low-carbon transport, hosted by Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng FLSW, Chair of the Research The awardees will take up the fellowships in August and Dynamic revetments: sustainable coastal protection by Committee, who will be speaking with Dame Julia Elizabeth King DBE FREng FRS, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who was the September 2020. working with nature first person to be awarded a Senior Research Fellowship. The event will take place on 23 July at 10.30am. To join please register at www.raeng.org.uk/academycafe The newly appointed awardees and their research projects are: • Dr Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick – Accelerated distributed learning for real-world systems. • Dr Mahsa Derakhshani, Loughborough University – In the spotlight: Machine learning solutions for scalable, mission-critical The next call for proposals for the scheme will open later in Dr Tuck Seng Wong wireless networks 2020, for fellowships starting in 2021. Visit www.raeng.org.uk/leverhulme for more information. Chemical engineer Dr Tuck Seng Wong is a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow and an alumni of the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship programme. Africa Catalyst

Dr Seng Wong is currently leading a biocatalysis and synthetic On 7 May, the Academy held an online meeting for awardees of biology research group at the University of Sheffield, focusing the GCRF Africa Catalyst programme to introduce their projects. on sustainable biomanufacturing of chemicals such as bioplastics using engineered biological systems (protein/ Due to the online nature of the meeting, project colleagues enzyme/microbe) and renewable feedstocks. and partners, both in-country and in the UK, were able to join. The meeting was chaired by David Thomlinson FREng and gave He is leading a protein purification team in the manufacturing awardees the opportunity to introduce their respective projects, as of a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is causing the current well as share challenges and learnings, particularly in a COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic. An antigen – which causes the body’s context. The programme’s research consultancy, Ecorys, also immune reaction – derived from the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein presented on its progress to date. The Academy held its GCRF Africa Catalyst meeting online would allow researchers to develop a test to analyse bodily fluids for antibodies. This is urgently needed for conducting antibody By awarding grants, the GCRF Africa Catalyst programme aims best practice and increase local engineering capacity to help tests, understanding antibody responses upon viral exposure, Dr Tuck Seng Wong is working on manufacturing an antigen to detect the to strengthen professional engineering bodies in sub-Saharan drive development. To find out more about the Africa Catalyst and identifying individuals who are potentially immune. COVID-19 virus Africa so that they can effectively promote the profession, share programme, visit www.raeng.org.uk/Africa-Catalyst

4 Research and innovation Research and innovation 5 Online mentoring training for awardees video mentoring. The training provided practical steps to help The Lord Bhattacharyya engineering education programme delegates actively implement and test their mentoring skills. On 20 May, the Academy held online mentoring training for In May, the Academy launched the Lord Bhattacharyya higher education bursary scheme, enabling A-level and BTEC students awardees of its research support programmes to help them The training was delivered by Different Development. The from the to apply for one of eight £15,000 bursaries to study engineering degrees at a UK university. The scheme develop the skills to become a mentor. Academy will run an annual mentoring training course as part of aims to: encourage disadvantaged and underrepresented students to become the engineering workforce of the future; support a programme to support its awardees. the progression of local students; and help address the shortage of skilled engineers and technicians by encouraging diversity in The training course explored success factors for mentoring, engineering. developing rapport, models and structures for mentoring The next online course will be media training, in July, to help sessions, and dealing with challenges. It was also timely to have awardees develop skills in communicating their research to In June, the Academy opened grants applications for the same schools and colleges, offering each access to up to £2,500 to a focus on distance mentoring and best practice for effective the media. build a library of resources and experiences to increase students’ science capital and encourage a meaningful relationship with engineering. These libraries will help provide STEM challenge days for students, industrial secondments for lecturers and Academy resource boxes for schools. Project CARE Entrepreneurs from 12 countries COVID-19. These include innovations such across the Africa Prize for Engineering as incinerators to safely dispose of used The Lord Bhattacharyya engineering education programme is a £2.5 million, five-year programme funded by the Department The Academy is mobilising African Innovation and Leadership in Innovation PPE, manufacture of hand sanitisers and for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Led by the Academy, in close partnership with WMG (formerly the Warwick engineering entrepreneurs to address the Fellowships alumni networks were connecting smallholder farmers with local Manufacturing Group) based at the University of Warwick, it aims to engage with 20 secondary schools and five further education consequences and impacts of COVID-19 in selected through a competitive process. supply chains. colleges in the West Midlands. Despite the high-profile launch event having to be postponed in March, other strands of the project their communities through Project CARE The 55 entrepreneurs will rapidly produce are making great progress and are already impacting on network schools and colleges. (COVID-19 African Rapid Entrepreneurs). PPE and sell these products to local clinics If you are interested in supporting this and frontline health workers. project or can help entrepreneurs’ access The project is supporting them to local markets to sell their products, please The Great Exhibition at make and supply PPE that can be used A further eight entrepreneurs have been contact [email protected] or Home effectively in healthcare facilities in sub- competitively selected to pivot and/or visit www.raeng.org.uk/CARE for more Saharan Africa. scale their businesses as a response to information. In March, the Academy partnered with the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to deliver the Great Exhibition at Education and to them. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic and school Home with Big Ideas. closures in March, all collaborative projects were cancelled and skills will be rescheduled when the guidance on social distancing Inspired by the original Great Exhibition of allows. 1851, the challenge asks young people to explore how engineers can help protect Connecting STEM Teachers during CST is a national schools network that provides support the planet. Weekly activities, digital COVID-19 for teachers across all STEM subjects, ensuring that they resources and a video challenge build up to have the knowledge and confidence to engage students a final video challenge that asks students To support teachers and students during the pandemic, the with interdisciplinary STEM education. It is designed to help to create and share a ‘Great Exhibition’, Academy's Connecting STEM Teachers programme (CST) address the UK’s shortage of engineers and increase the wherever their classroom may be. restocked and distributed 750 boxes of five of its most popular appeal of engineering careers among underrepresented and STEM resources. underserved groups. It is led by 49 teacher coordinators who Within the first five weeks, Great

build and manage networks of schools and provide professional Exhibition at Home received over 5,500 The Great Exhibition at Home challenges students to create their own 'Great Exhibition' through weekly The resource boxes were used with pupils from keyworker development training to teachers in their local area. downloads and inspired plenty of budding activities such as building a flood-proof house families and the bubbles of small classes that have now engineers. Highlights have included returned to school. The Academy also delivered 60 bespoke Engaging underrepresented and underserved groups of pupils compost-powered energy, a magnetic- house to test in the bath. Lego turned out The Great Exhibition at Home Challenge is online training workshops for teachers at 650 schools across has always been a priority of CST. Widening participation fuelled wind turbine and a cushion for to be the most popular building material inspired by this momentous undertaking the UK. and equality of education seems more important now than cars to stop killing the endangered Florida and Tess (Year 5) even managed to create and the ambition of those involved. ever before and teachers and parents have shared useful panther, which is the largest human a tsunami-proof house as demonstrated It provides an opportunity to connect In May and June, teacher coordinators would normally have feedback during this time. As we look ahead to September and cause of the species’ death. There were by a large bucket of water. schools and communities today in the brought groups of students together from different schools and a very different start to the new school year, the Academy is some especially great entries in week two spirit of the exhibition, to look to the year groups to participate in enhanced learning experiences. considering how best to adapt the programme to work more of the challenge in which students were The Great Exhibition of 1851 was an future and engineer a better world. Pupils would be working together to explore and engage in closely with schools with a high percentage of students who fall asked to design and build a flood-proof international celebration of innovation. STEM-focused activities and challenges while learning more into these categories, where the attainment gap looks set to about engineering and the careers opportunities available widen. Academy sets engineering problem find and solve. All activities use Entries so far have included a prototype challenges children can do items that can be found at home and have ventilator, an app that monitors seizures, Engineering Leaders Scholarships women – including three new Sir Ralph Robins Scholars. This simple instructions. and rocket launchers. The competition year 236 applications were received from undergraduates at at home continued during the summer term and all On 27 March, the Academy held its selection event to award 40 different higher education institutions across the UK. A new challenge is being set every two winners will showcase their entries at the Engineering Leaders Scholarships (ELS), which was held online The Academy has launched a series of weeks and students are being asked to Connecting STEM Teachers celebration for the first time. challenges for budding engineers to ELS and Sir Ralph Robins Scholarships are intended for show off their creativity, imagination and send in photos or a short video along with event. The event is usually a full day of interviews and activities undergraduates who are already demonstrating skills that problem-solving skills. one or two sentences to explain what at Prince Philip House to determine which exceptional could make them engineering leaders and role models of they did. The best entries can choose To find out more about the competition, undergraduates gain a scholarship, but this year the Academy the future. The funding helps individuals to undertake The Academy has chosen practical from a selection of prizes including a visit stemresources.raeng.org.uk/ coordinated a day of almost 70 video interviews with 20 career development activities to support and enhance their education activities that reflect real-life power and play K’Nex set or a robot to stem-at-home/engineers-in-the- interviewers, including Fellows and alumni online. The leadership potential. engineering challenges to encourage build and programme. making/ interviewers selected 38 awardees – 44% of whom were students to tinker, investigate, and

6 Education and skills Education and skills 7 Power up! Net zero project launches explore, inform, and advise policymakers Over the next year, the programme will on some of the hardest cross-cutting address a range of topics, both sector- In March, the latest Academy STEM resource Power up! was In May, the National Engineering Policy challenges and the opportunities that specific and cross-cutting, which are launched and is now part of the STEM at Home series. Centre (NEPC) launched a paper, Net need to be addressed if the UK’s 2050 set out in the launch paper. A workshop Zero: A systems perspective on the target is to be reached. on Decarbonising Construction: the Power up! focuses on energy and engineering careers in the climate challenge, which debates the route to net zero was held in June. Other area. It looks at the importance of electricity, how it is generated scale and complexity of the net zero The programme will develop an evidence forthcoming publications include a net and global electricity consumption, and investigates different challenge, and explores how engineers base to underpin the NEPC’s advice and zero explainer and a paper on COVID-19 forms of energy and types of renewable energy sources and government can use systems insights. It will partner with stakeholders and net zero. through hands-on practical activities. This includes: creating a thinking to tackle this challenge. at local and national level, across circuit to investigate energy transfers using different objects government, industry and academia to For more information and to get involved, that can be found around the house; designing and building This forms part of the NEPC’s shape and support the UK government’s please go to www.raeng.org.uk/net- a Rube Goldberg machine; and building a wind turbine programme of work on net zero, to domestic and global policy on net zero. zero or email [email protected] using recycled material. A handy video guide is also available for teachers, parents and carers to support with home learning. Sustainable living places The Power up! box is all about energy and electricity The resource is also being used by the Academy’s Connecting In June, the NEPC launched its sustainable STEM Teachers programme. Teacher coordinators are delivering The resource and video guide are available on the Academy living places report, Developing a systemic online workshops to network schools. STEM resource hub, at stemresources.raeng.org.uk perspective for sustainable living places.

Recognising that there are many different Attendance was by invitation only, with a systems approaches, this report focuses Thought guestlist made up of women Fellows, key on applying systems thinking to housing female senior industry representatives in the UK and the wider system in which it leadership and Academy stakeholders. is situated. The report applies an approach that is appropriate for tackling complex Shape the world! The Academy also celebrated INWED policy issues that have a social-technical with a week-long social media campaign dimension. The systems methodology Caption On 23 June, as part of International highlighting the work of female and approach led to a map, findings that A map brings the themes of sustainable living places to life Women in Engineering Day (INWED20), engineers from across the Academy’s show where activities in one part of the the Academy brought together the next programmes. system may influence other parts of the The report’s findings are aimed primarily Other audiences of interest include generation of engineers with senior system, and an illustration that brings at the Infrastructure and Projects policymakers in government working industry leaders to interact with and Engineers highlighted included: Chinenye these themes to life. The findings raise Authority, which commissioned this on housing, professional engineering share experiences, knowledge and ideas Justin Nwaogwugwu, a recipient of the issues specific to the planning of housing, piece of work. It will also appeal to institutions and infrastructure in a virtual environment. international rapid response Project CARE place and infrastructure, and discuss the an audience interested in testing stakeholders interested in exploring an funding to produce a hand sanitiser to strengths and challenges of applying this applications of systems approaches application of a systems approach. Jane Atkinson FREng Jane Atkinson FREng, Executive World Health Organization standards; and systems approach. connected to the delivery of places. Director Engineering and Automation Dawn Bonfield MBE, an Academy Visiting progression of women in engineering. at Bilfinger UK Ltd, gave the opening Professor in Inclusive Engineering who is Barriers to women advancing in their Academy staff member wins Diversity data monitoring and reporting keynote presentation. Jane, who was working on embedding the principles of careers, or following a particular career Rising Star Award named the Financial Times’ most inclusion into engineering curricula. path, can include a lack of diverse and On 8 June, the Academy and the Science Council hosted a influential woman in engineering, visible role models, as well as a shortage Monica Stancu, the Academy’s Diversity and Inclusion webinar for science and engineering professional bodies on shared her insights into being a woman The campaign culminated in a call to of professional networks to help them. Manager, has won a We are the City Rising Star Award. best practice in collecting, analysing and reporting diversity leader on the theme of ‘Shape the use the recommended actions from data. World’. This was followed by a fireside the Academy’s recently published To find out more about the campaign, The Rising Star Awards showcase the UK pipeline of female chat with Academy CEO Dr Hayaatun Closing the engineering gender pay please visit www.raeng.org.uk/ talent below management and aim to create women role Representatives from Institute of Physics, the Royal Society Sillem CBE. gap report to address the retention and INWED2020 models across different industries and professions. Monica and others shared their experiences of diversity data was one of the top five winners in the charity and not-for- collection with practical tips and advice. The webinar forms profit sector, sponsored by Cancer Research UK. Over 1,000 part of a series of workshops and activities to support science Policy Fellowships launched Each Policy Fellow used a policy question to progress their individuals entered and were judged by a panel of 40 judges. and engineering professional bodies to make progress against thinking with engineering perspectives. Together, they engaged Over 35,000 public votes were cast for the shortlist of 200. the D&I Progression Framework. In May, the Academy launched its new Policy Fellowship in over 50 one-to-one meetings with leaders in engineering programme, following a successful pilot in 2019. Five senior civil from the Academy’s networks including Fellows, Enterprise servants became Policy Fellows: Hub members, and research and education awardees. The Have you updated your details? • Benjamin Jones, Head of Department for Transport’s programme also included a workshop and individual coaching on The Academy is committed to continuing to diversify the Academy Fellowship and awardees, and embed D&I across all its Innovation Aviation Security Policy using engineering systems approaches to progress their policy activities. • Chris Moore-Bick, Head of Policy, Strategic Research and challenges, led by Professor John Clarkson FREng. International Engagement, Ministry of Defence To understand the diversity of people engaging in Academy activities, it is collecting diversity data to measure performance and • Hannah Tooze, Head of Land Transport Security, The Policy Fellowships programme receives applications on progress towards its D&I goals. The Academy will publish its first diversity data report in 2020 covering the Fellowship, awardees, Department for Transport a rolling basis with selected Policy Fellows joining the next events, and other Academy functions and activities. As of May 2020, only 33% of Fellows have completed the diversity data • Louise Dunsby, Chief of Staff for the Industrial Strategy, available cohort. The programme builds stronger connections monitoring form. Science and Innovation Directorate between policymakers and the technical community in support • Madalina Ursu, Head of Infrastructure, Greater London of better evidence-based policymaking. More information can The Academy encourages all Fellows to declare their diversity data by logging to the ‘my account’ area of the Academy website at Authority. be found at www.raeng.org.uk/policyfellowships www.raeng.org.uk/fellows-area

8 Thought leadership Thought leadership 9 President introduced the Academy’s new mission to harness Corporate partners Coffee with the CEO Public the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. He also The Academy works in partnership with a range of Academy CEO Hayaatun Sillem is keen to meet informally with engagement highlighted the ways that engineering can help beyond a organisations that help fund some of its key activities and Fellows during this period when we are not able to hold physical design’s initial purpose through the example of the Apollo programmes. This includes programmes such as Connecting meetings and events. programme’s legacy, which underpins the satellite systems STEM Teachers, This is Engineering, the Enterprise Hub Space technologies lecture that we take for granted today. and Ingenia. From July, she will be holding a monthly ‘virtual coffee with the CEO’ session where up to 10 Fellows can join an hour-long On 4 May, this year’s Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh The discussion explored how is helping to lead the The Academy would like to thank the following industry Zoom call for an informal update on Academy activities and an joint event took place online. way in space technologies and how these technologies may partners for their support: Shell, BAE Systems, BP, Rolls-Royce, opportunity to share views, give feedback and ask questions. be applied to other industries, including how they could help Anglo American, National Grid, Centrica, MBDA, Mott MacDonald, Professor Dame Ann Glover DBE FRS FRSE, President of the combat COVID-19. Teledyne e2v, WSP, Arup, Mathys and Squire and WMG. If you are interested in joining one of these sessions, please email Royal Society of Edinburgh, chaired a panel discussion with [email protected] Professor Malcom MacDonald, Chair of Space Technology, For more information or to discuss partnership opportunities, University of Strathclyde; Sarah Middlemiss, Space Programme please contact Maria Long, Head of Corporate Partnerships, at Manager, Econmetrica; Dr Pamela Anderson, Clyde Space [email protected] Limited; and Professor Colin McInnes MBE FREng FRSE, James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science, University of . Education committee in higher education across the world. in the years ahead. Many engineers and update Attendance has been excellent. You can technicians will be made redundant, and Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, Academy President, find recordings of the webinars on the apprentices and graduates will struggle to welcomed delegates to the event. In his welcome, the This year, the annual joint lecture was held as an online panel discussion The Academy has successfully continued Academy website under the education secure employment in the depleted jobs its education and skills activity section. market. Yet, as we look forward beyond QEPrize launches throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Since COVID-19, the Academy is supporting the innovation that inspires them, March, Fellows have interviewed over A generous donation from government government’s ambitious plans to recover #EngineeringInspiration which can be a product or structure 70 students online for the Engineering has also allowed the Academy to the economy with engineering at its campaign from any engineering discipline Leaders Scholarships programme, which establish a new education programme heart: major infrastructure investment, a anywhere in the world, or celebrates its 25th anniversary this year in honour of Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya net-zero carbon economy and significant To mark the opening of the 2021 Queen • a video of themselves explaining an and 30 Visiting Professorships have been CBE FREng FRS, who died last year. The improvements in productivity driven by Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) innovation that inspires them and awarded. programme will support young people digital industrialisation. This will require nominations period, the QEPrize launched how it works. from disadvantaged communities in the upskilling and reskilling of the engineering its #EngineeringInspiration campaign to Restrictions relating to the pandemic West Midlands to engage with STEM workforce and the Academy will play a celebrate incredible engineering all over In the first campaign video of the have meant the Academy's education education and encourage them to pursue central role in ensuring we have the right the world and get people talking about campaign, QEPrize Ambassador activities have needed to adapt. We careers in engineering. While schools have skills to deliver this ambition. what inspires them. Stephanie Houser uses candy to explain have established a new online webinar been closed since March, the Academy has how a nuclear reactor works. Other series, which features guest speakers launched online STEM at home resources. Professor Jonathan Seville FREng The campaign is open to anyone around videos explain a range of innovations each week presenting on a range of Chair, Education and Skills Committee QEPrize Ambassador Aimi Elias with a bottle rocket the world. Participants are asked to use from induction cookers and mixers to topics – from teaching methods for The COVID-19 pandemic is going to have (Professor Seville steps down in the hashtag #EngineeringInspiration and chocolate and machine learning. To date, International public nominations opened engineering in primary schools to issues a significant impact on engineering skills September 2020) share either: the videos have been viewed by over on 21 April and close on 17 July. To find 1.65 million people. out more about the nominations and News of Fellows director of British Water appointed Research & Development • a photo of an engineering campaign, visit www.qeprize.org Director at Owen Mumford Sir Peter Bonfield CBE has been Professor Jim Hall has been elected to elected to serve as Chairman of NXP the Trustee Board of the Institution of Professor Roland Lewis FLSW has Academy You will require your username and password to access it. If Semiconductors for another year Civil Engineers been awarded an Honorary Fellowship you have forgotten your details, you can email webmaster@ and DEng (Hon) by Swansea University roundup raeng.org.uk to request them. All other queries regarding Samir Brikho has been appointed Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS nominations should be directed to [email protected]. chairman of the Siberian Coal Energy has been been appointed Chair of the Professor Gordon Masterton OBE DL uk Company Ada Lovelace Institute FRSE has been elected Master of the Nominations of prospective new Worshipful Company of Engineers Fellows Engineering excellence criteria Lord Browne FRS has joined the board Dr Clive Hickman has been appointed of SparkCognition to head the Midlands Manufacturing Professor Hywel Thomas CBE FRS The Academy's effectiveness depends critically on the talent, The Trustee Board, with the recommendation from the Resilience Commission FLSW has been made President of the energy and commitment of its Fellows and the role of the Membership Committee, approved two additional criteria to Mark Carne CBE has been appointed Learned Society of Wales Fellowship is central to the whole membership process. While be added to the engineering excellence criteria for Fellowship Chair of Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust Dr Andrew Hosty has been appointed quality remains the paramount determinant of election, the nominations: Chairman of Nexeon Professor Chai K Toh has been Fellowship must reflect the diversity of engineering in all its • evidence of engineering excellence in education, training Sir John Chisholm has been appointed appointed Chairman of China Qingdao forms. and/or teaching with transformational impact which Non Executive Chair of RevoluGen Professor Neville Jackson has been City Industry IoT Alliance Experts influences national or international practice; appointed Chair of the RAC Foundation Committee The closing date for Fellowship nominations will be • engineers who have demonstrated outstanding Professor Alicia El Haj has been 1 September 2020. Nominations can be made via the entrepreneurship and leadership in the creation and awarded the Institute of Materials, Dr Robert Joyce has been appointed Professor R Paul Young has been Academy's online system for nominations, which is found in sustained growth of engineering-based businesses. Minerals and Mining's Chapman medal Chairman of ULEMCo appointed as International (Foreign) the Fellows' secure area of the website: Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada www.raeng.org.uk/fellows-area The full criteria can be found in the Fellows’ area of the website. Dr Mark Fletcher has been appointed a Professor Andrew Lewis has been and a member of Council

10 Public engagement Academy roundup 11 Media roundup Academy report on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on R&D investment was covered in The Engineer and The Manufacturer. From 1 April to 30 June, 529 items of news coverage mentioned the Academy, its Fellows and awardees. The Academy President was interviewed about his professional life and decarbonising the UK’s electricity supply on BBC Radio 4 The Academy's CEO was quoted in The Telegraph about the need Life Scientific. for more people with STEM skills. The Academy-supported Great Exhibition at Home education challenge was reported on Sky On International Women in Engineering Day, Catriona Schmolke News and BBC Newsround. The Duke of Edinburgh thanked those FREng spoke to the Guardian about sustainable practices in supporting the efforts to address the COVID-19 crisis, including engineering and the Academy's CEO spoke about the need to the Academy. The work of Frontiers of Engineering and Frontiers attract and retain more women into the profession. follow-on awardees Dr Zhugen Yang to use sewage as an early warning mechanism for COVID-19 outbreaks was reported in The announcement that the Academy will be working in trade publications. partnership with Lewis Hamilton HonFREng on the Hamilton Commission, a research partnership that will explore how to An Academy paper on engineering interventions to reduce in- engage more young people from black backgrounds with STEM hospital COVID-19 infection was reported on BBC Radio 4 Inside subjects and gain employment in the engineering sector, was Science and in the Mail Online. Enterprise Hub member Dr Felicity widely covered by national and sporting news outlets, including de Cogan spoke to the Mail Online about the anti-viral coating she Sky Sports, following an opinion piece by Lewis in The Sunday has developed. Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng gave advice on social Times. distancing to the Guardian, Metro, and the Mirror. The MacRobert Award 2020 finalists were announced, with The Academy launched its net zero working group, which was feature coverage in i-news in print and online as well as an covered in Politics Home, Research Fortnight, Business Green, article on BBC Online about the 50th anniversary photo and in an opinion article from the President in The Engineer. An exhibition, and regional and trade coverage.

2019 Annual Fund update that the campaign continues its essential Fund appeal, and I hope we can build work to attract more young people, upon this success in 2020 and the Thank you to all Fellows who generously from all backgrounds, into engineering. coming years.” contributed to the 2019 Annual Fund The Academy is grateful that donations appeal, which has raised over £56,000, received from the 2019 appeal will Follow the Academy on Twitter: inclusive of Gift Aid. provide vital investment in the campaign. @RAEngNews Follow the Academy on LinkedIn: Search Royal Academy of Engineering Since 2012, donations to the Annual Fund Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE said “It have provided the Academy with valuable is a priority for me as President that Edited by Portia Sale support for a range of existing programmes the Academy can realise long-term Email: [email protected] and new initiatives that require funding. sustainable growth. Philanthropic donations therefore are vital in helping Published by the Royal Academy of Engineering, Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our Academy achieve this; from London SW1Y 5DG some of the Academy’s priority areas strengthening our foundations by Tel: 020 7766 0600 www.raeng.org.uk of work, in particular the This is bolstering core capabilities, to providing The Royal Academy of Engineering Engineering campaign, which is fully early investment for new initiatives. promotes excellence in the science, funded by philanthropy and corporate Thank you to all our Fellows that made a art and practice of engineering. sponsorship. It is of great importance generous contribution to my first Annual Registered charity number 293074

formerly Professor of Civil Engineering Professor Michael Hamlin CBE FREng Obituaries at the University of Durham. FRSE died on 21 April 2020, aged 89. He was formerly Principal and Vice- Dr Josef Theurer FREng died on 19 Chancellor at the University of Dundee. March 2020, aged 90. He was formerly Dr Adolf Frankel CBE FREng died on Chairman at Plasser and Theurer Group. Lord Robert May of Oxford Kt OM AC 29 September 2019, aged 101. HonFREng FRS died on 28 April 2020, Lord Francis Baron Tombs of Brailes aged 84. He was formerly Professor in Dr John Walling MBE FREng died on 20 FREng HonFRSE died on 11 April 2020, the Department of Zoology, University January 2020, aged 91. He was formerly aged 95. He was formerly Chairman of Oxford and Imperial College London; Deputy Director and Senior Consultant, of Rolls-Royce and Chancellor of the and Past President of the Royal Society. Philips Research Laboratories and University of Strathclyde. Visiting Professor of Electronic Emeritus Professor Thomas Lipo Engineering at the University of Surrey. Professor Clifford Burrows OBE FREng FREng died on 08 May 2020, aged 82. died on 19 April 2020, aged 82. He was He was formerly Research Professor at Professor Peter Bettess FREng died formerly Emeritus Professor of Systems Florida State University and Emeritus on 7 March 2020, aged 74. He was Engineering at the University of Bath. Professor at the University of Wisconsin.

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