GO GREEN'S very own Dr Green has been celebrating after being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Paul Younger, HSBC Professor of Energy and Environment, has joined Professor Trevor Page, Newcastle University Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Relations and Research, as two of the 30 pioneering engineers elected...
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2007-UK Government: Employers back new engineering diplomasC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24072007 Ed Balls today welcomed support for the new engineering diploma - being introduced next year - from major employers including British Gas, JCB, RWE npower, and The...
Evaluation Committee from The Royal Academy of Engineering Nominates Transitive for the UK's Premier Award for Innovation in Engineering LONDON -- Transitive[R] Limited, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, has been selected as a 2007 Finalist for the...
In March, The Independent, Bosch and The Royal Academy of Engineering launched the Technology Horizons Award, offering students aged 14 to 24 the chance to have their articles printed in The Independent - and to win cash prizes of up to [pound]1,000. The 200th anniversary of the...
Keith Miller travelled far from his humble origins in Blackburn, Lancashire, to become a mechanical engineer of world standing and a remarkable explorer and mountaineer. Along his journey he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Founder's Gold Medallist of the...
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 July 2005-Ofcom: William Webb honoured by Royal Academy of EngineeringC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18072005 Ofcom today announced that its senior technologist William Webb has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an honour reserved for the...
'If we can really make this work there will be enough electricity to last the world for the next 1,000 to 2,000 years' Ian Fells, Royal Academy of Engineering on the decision to build a nuclear fusion reactor in France
M2 PRESSWIRE-1 June 2005-ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: Academy award for iPOD designerC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01062005 The Royal Academy of Engineering is to award its coveted silver President's Medal to the man behind the iPOD, Jonathan Ive. Jonathan Ive...
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 May 2005-ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: Network genius to receive Royal Academy of Engineering Silver MedalC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16052005 Simon Brueckheimer, one of the UK's leading communications engineers, is to receive The Royal Academy of Engineering's Silver Medal...
Mar 21, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) The UK Government is seeking to regulate nanotechnology and the science behind it. While nanotechnologies have brought advances to a range of industries, they also present potential safety and ethical challenges. A 2003 study into...
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 January 2005-ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: Three weeks left to enter GBP50,000 innovation prizeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01062005 Could your engineering innovation change the world? The Royal Academy of Engineering is looking for contenders for the MacRobert Award 2005,...
THE COST OF GENERATING ELECTRICITY by Royal Academy of Engineering www.raeng.org.uk/news/temp/ cost_generation_report.pdf In this study, the United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Engineering shows that renewable sources of energy such as wind are twice as expensive as traditional fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The inherently unreliable and intermittent nature of wind...
Nominations of engineers for the Sir Frank Whittle Medal are invited by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The 2005 medal will be awarded to a UK engineer who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering innovations in energy. Closing date for nominations is 13 December 2004....
HOPING TO SLOW DOWN THE HEAD-long rush to developing nanoproducts, the British Royal Academy of Engineering has called for tighter regulation of nanotechnology. One particular point of concern was that nanoparticles, which are now being introduced into consumer products such as cosmetics, need to...
Sir: The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is right to criticise the Government's energy policy (Business; report, 15 July). The Government's faith in wind power is unrealistic and ignores serious concerns about security of energy supply. Although a recent Royal Academy of Engineering report showed...
A recent report by the Royal Academy of Engineering has indicated that gas and nuclear energy can be obtained for around half the cost of renewables. The report was prepared by consultants PB Power and concluded that the energy from gas cost around 2.3p per kilowatt hour....
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 April 2004-ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING: Tim Berners-Lee wins new Finnish EUR1 million 'Nobel' prizeC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04142004 World Wide Web inventor Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has won the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize www.technologyawards.org/, worth one million euros...
Electricity from offshore wind farms will cost at least twice as much as from conventional sources, according to a report out today. The Royal Academy of Engineering said the cheapest electricity was generated from gas turbines and nuclear power stations. Coal generation looked uneconomic in the future, especially because...
M2 PRESSWIRE-29 July 2003-BT: BT Exact's Chief Executive elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of EngineeringC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07292003 BT today announced that Stewart Davies, chief executive officer CEO of BT Exact, its research, technology and IT operations business, ...
Engineers are the life-blood of enterprise. Engineers take scientific knowledge and convert it into products, systems and processes. Nationally we are dependent on engineers for economic success, commercial competitiveness, health and safety, shelter and food, defence and for conserving the environment. The transportation, communications and financial infrastructure which supports the...
