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Summer Newsletter 2019 Bombardier win the MacRobert Award On 11 July, Bombardier won the MacRobert Award for its innovative, resin-infused advanced composite wing at the Academy’s annual Awards Dinner at Banqueting House in Whitehall. The event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the MacRobert Award, the UK’s longest running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation. It honours the winning organisation with a gold medal, and the team members with a cash prize of £50,000. The award is supported by The Worshipful Company of Engineers. Bombardier’s innovative wing minimises the aircraft’s environmental impact by reducing both weight and fuel burn Dame Ann and HRH The Princess Royal with the Bombardier team in flight, and waste during manufacture. The team were one of a shortlist of four finalists, and were announced as winners on The Silver Medals, which recognise outstanding personal the night by Academy President Professor Dame Ann Dowling contributions to engineering in the early to mid-stage of OM DBE FREng FRS. HRH The Princess Royal presented the careers, were presented to Dr Daniel Elford, Chief Technology gold medal to the winning team: Mark Braniff, Head of Strategic Officer, Sonobex; Jennifer Griffiths MBE, Founder, Snap Tech Technology, Composites; David Patterson, Engineering Fellow, and Professor Paul Newman FREng, Founder, Oxbotica. Aerostructures; Trevor Poots, former Chief Manufacturing and Tooling Engineer; David Riordan, Engineering Fellow, Engine The Rooke Medal went to European Space Agency Astronaut Nacelle Design; and Sam Wilson, Senior Composites Specialist. Major Tim Peake CMG in recognition of his inspirational promotion of engineering and space through the Principia Dr Dame Sue Ion DBE FREng FRS, Chair of the MacRobert Award mission’s education programme, the largest and most judging panel, said: "Bombardier’s composite wing reflects how successful educational campaign supporting a European excellence in aeronautical engineering benefits both society astronaut mission. Unfortunately, he could not be there on the and the environment. At a time of uncertainty for Belfast’s night, but pre-recorded a video message thanking the Academy. engineering community, we hope this award helps them achieve the worldwide recognition they deserve.” The RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year awards, established with the support of The Worshipful Company of The other three finalists were Darktrace for Antigena, an Engineers, were presented to Rosie Goldrick, Engineering Director, AI-powered ‘self-healing’ cybersecurity system that can both MASS; Sophie Harker, Aeronautical Performance Engineer, BAE identify and neutralise cyberattacks; M Squared, whose SolsTiS Systems; Dr Giorgia Longobardi, Founder and CEO of Cambridge titanium:sapphire laser produces the world's purest light, GaN devices Ltd; Dr Áine Ní Bhreasail, Senior Engineer, Arup; and enabling new scientific discoveries and bringing about radical Dr Mariia Sorokina, Academy Research Fellow, Aston University. transformations in quantum computing, healthcare, navigation Rosie also won the Sir George Macfarlane Medal for demonstrating and climate change technology; and OrganOx for creating outstanding excellence in the early stage of her career. the metra, a world-first device that can keep a human donor liver functioning outside the body for up to 24 hours prior to The Major Project Award was presented by Warren East CBE transplant. FREng FRS, CEO of Rolls-Royce, to the team behind BP’s Shah Deniz 2. This project delivers part of the Southern Gas Corridor, Fiona Bruce, news anchor and broadcaster, hosted the a European Commission initiative to provide a reliable source of ceremony where a number of other Academy awards were natural gas from Caspian and Middle Eastern regions to Europe. presented. The President’s Medal went to Professor Richard Williams OBE FREng FRSE in recognition of his extraordinary The Academy’s Awards Dinner was supported by headline sponsor service to the Academy over two decades. Rolls-Royce and silver sponsors BP and Lockheed Martin. President’s column 2 Academy roundup 14 Newsletter Research and innovation 4 HM The Queen's Birthday Honours 16 Education and skills 7 Obituaries 16 Summer 2019 Thought leadership 10 Public engagement 12 1 support, as my five-year term as President business-university collaboration and I President's finishes at the end of September. am delighted that additional funding from the government’s Investment in Research column Over that time, the Academy, and the Talent programme has tripled our support engineering landscape in general, have for researchers and innovators. seen some significant changes. In 2014, I was the first woman to be appointed as Collaboration has been a consistent theme President of the Academy and I am pleased of my term as President and it is vital to to say that since then diversity and inclusion every area of the Academy’s work. In recent (D&I) within the profession has been high years, the Academy has coordinated policy on the agenda. The Academy has led a reports and responses on behalf of the successful D&I programme to support and engineering profession. Building on that, a inspire more women, those from minority collaborative way of working has now been ethnic backgrounds, lesbian, gay, bisexual embedded through the establishment of and transgender individuals, and people the National Engineering Policy Centre, with disabilities to start and advance careers led by the Academy but bringing together in the field. To date, close to 100 businesses the expertise of all of the UK’s professional This year’s annual Awards Dinner was have engaged in this effort. In 2018, we engineering organisations to provide a very special occasion. Once again, the gained our first female Chief Executive with advice to policymakers. I believe that this is Academy recognised and rewarded some the appointment of Dr Hayaatun Sillem, and a significant step forwards in ensuring that exceptional engineers at all stages of I know that she and our new President will engineering realities and systems thinking their careers, but this time much of the continue to drive our D&I efforts forwards. inform government policies. focus was on the MacRobert Award’s 50th anniversary. Since 1969, the award has D&I is critical in a profession that develops Engineering is playing an increasingly celebrated innovation in UK engineering, solutions for the whole of society, and important role in society, and the honouring the engineers behind also an important part of how we address engineering landscape has evolved projects that have achieved commercial the skills gap. The skills shortage in significantly since I took up this post, success and benefited society. On 30 engineering has been persistent, but we progress that I believe the Academy’s July, the Academy will again celebrate are beginning to see some progress. The activities have contributed positively to. This the achievements of these pioneering This is Engineering campaign has helped has been enabled by our marvellous staff, engineers at a reception at St James’s open up engineering to a new generation our many collaborators, and particularly Palace for former winners and finalists. and demonstrated the wealth and the support and involvement of Fellows. I breadth of opportunities available in the would like to take this opportunity to thank The Awards Dinner was just one event in a profession. The films launched as part of you all for what you do for the Academy. very busy summer, and it was a pleasure to this campaign have been viewed over 35 There has never been a more important meet up with Fellows on many occasions. million times. Research carried out at the time for the Academy to advance and Following her keynote speech at the Awards end of the campaign’s first year has shown promote excellence in engineering so that Dinner, Professor Frances Arnold FREng was that consideration of engineering as a our profession can continue to contribute honoured at a lunch at Prince Philip House. career option has almost doubled among to societal wellbeing and economic growth. This was our opportunity to congratulate teenagers who have seen the films, and one of our Fellows on winning the 2018 increased more significantly among female Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Professor Arnold’s and minority ethnic students. It is great to breakthrough research on directed evolution see that this work is having such an effect of proteins and enzymes has led to many and the campaign has even more ambitious Meetings and visitors engineering and medical innovations, as plans for the future, which I hope many In her capacity as President, well as recognition at the highest level. people will get involved with. Dame Ann has met with: Earlier in June, the Academy also hosted a Engineering UK The National Academy Presidents with Sir lunch to celebrate International Women in Another area that the Academy will Adrian Smith FRS and Science Minister Engineering Day. First introduced in 2018, continue to influence going forward is Chris Skidmore MP the event is a great opportunity for young policy, into which engineering input is so Andrew Stephenson MP women engineers to network with senior crucial for the UK at present. When I was Engineering and Physical Sciences Research industry leaders. At the lunch, we heard appointed as President one of my first tasks Council with Dr Hayaatun Sillem from Dr Caroline Hargrove FREng, Chief was to lead a review, commissioned by the She attended the following events Technology Officer at Babylon Health, who then Department for Business, Innovation and meetings: discussed why emerging technologies are and Skills, examining how government Hosted the President's Dinner attractive to women engineers. could support the development of Department for Business, Energy and more effective collaborations between Industrial Strategy Brexit High-Level Group meeting Another event I was pleased to see return, businesses and universities. I am pleased Order of Merit Luncheon, Windsor Castle after first being introduced in 2018, was that the government fully endorsed James Watt Bicentenary Symposium the Summer Reception.
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