Industry News
Academy Fellows recognised in Queen’s Birthday
Honours
Congratulations to the following Fellows of the Royal Academy
of Engineering who have been recognised in The Queen’s
Birthday Honours 2017 for a range of accomplishments in the
engineering industry and their services to wider society.
Order of the Companions of Honour
Knights Bachelor
Knighthoods
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Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
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Dame Vera Stephanie Shirley DBE FREng Entrepreneur
and Philanthropist. For services to the IT Industry and
Philanthropy.
Professor Mir Saeed Zahedi OBE FREng Technical Director,
Chas A Blatchford & Sons. For services to Engineering and
Innovation.
www.raeng.org.uk
Engineering CEOs commit
to tackling gender crisis
To mark International Women in Engineering Day, CEOs and senior leaders
from some of the UK’s top engineering companies are joining the Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET) in calling for urgent action from the top to
address the shortage of women in UK engineering.
Women currently account for only 9% of the UK’s engineering workforce, yet 63%
of UK engineering employers do not have gender diversity initiatives in place*.
The call comes from engineering leaders during a panel discussion at the
start of the IET’s #9percentisnotenough conference, which takes place today
in Birmingham and is named after the IET’s multi-award winning social media
campaign to highlight the gender diversity issue in UK engineering. Engineering
industry leaders will be joined at the event by senior HR professionals, as well as
other representatives from industry, academia and the professional engineering
institutions.
www.theiet.org
SSE Hydro Arena recognised with Major
Project Award
The engineers behind Scotland’s largest entertainment venue are to receive the
Royal Academy of Engineering’s Major Project Award in recognition of nearly a
decade of work turning a vision into iconic reality.
Since being selected for the project in 2004, the team from Arup combined their
structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, lighting and fire engineering expertise to
help deliver the 12,500-seater SSE Hydro Arena in Glasgow. During that period,
the engineers had to overcome a number of significant challenges to create
the building situated on the bank of the River Clyde, including difficult ground
conditions in the city’s old docks and a design to withstand a one in 200-year
flood event, including allowing for climate change.
The team, based in Arup Scotland’s offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, consists of
Project Manager Ian Lumsden, Project Director Martin Surridge, Lead Mechanical
Engineer David Brodie, and Senior Structural Engineer Graeme Moncur.
Warwick students to
compete to build best
locomotive at Railway
Challenge
A team of seven student engineers from
WMG at the University of Warwick, is
gearing up to compete in the Institution
of Mechanical Engineers’ Railway
Challenge, taking place on 29 June-2 July
2017 at the Stapleford Miniature Railway
near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
The competition will see 12 teams
compete against each other to design and
manufacture the best, most innovative,
efficient and quietest small-scale
locomotive. The competition comprises
a series of track based and presentation
challenges, including a design report
and an ‘Innovation Challenge’ which
involves the production of an academic
paper on the innovations in the loco. The
track based challenges include: energy
storage, traction, ride comfort, noise,
maintainability and energy efficiency.
Louise Jackson, Team Leader for WMG’s
team said:
“Taking part in the Railway Challenge
gives us the opportunity to put our
imagination and resourcefulness to the
test.
The locomotives that will be competing
are designed to work on 10¼” gauge
railway line and must be powerful enough
to transport a 600 kg load – including one
of the Railway Challenge judges.
www.imeche.org
www.raeng.org.uk
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