MacRobert Award
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The MacRobert Award has been presented every year since 1969 by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The award seeks to recognise innovative ideas in engineering.
Below are a complete list of winners:
- 1969- Freeman, Fox and Partners - For the super structure of the Severn Bridge and Rolls-Royce - For the Pegasus Engine (Joint Winners)
- 1970- British Petroleum - For new surveying techniques
- 1971- The Gas Council - For innovative manufacturing processes
- 1972- EMI Limited - For advances in diagnosing Brain disease using X-rays
- 1973- Dunlop - For the Denovo tyre
- 1974 - ICI Limited (Agricultural division)
- 1975 - Westland Helicopters and British Railways Board (Joint Winners)
- 1976 - No award.
- 1977 - Royal Signals Research Establishment and Malvern Instruments Limited
- 1978 - Pilkington Brothers Limited
- 1979 - Post Office Telecommunications
- 1980 - Johnson Matthey Group
- 1981 - Lucas CAV Limited
- 1982 - Kaldair Limited
- 1983 - Ruston Gas Turbines
- 1984 - Netlon Limited
- 1985 - The National Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Rolls-Royce (Joint Winners)
- 1986 - Oxford Instruments Group
- 1987 - Renishaw plc
- 1988 - Quantel Limited
- 1989 - British Gas
- 1990 - The Science and Engineering Research Council
- 1991 - Rover Group and Defence Research Agency and GEC Sensors (Joint Winners)
- 1992 - BP International
- 1993 - ICI Klea
- 1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics
- 1995 - British Gas plc and Gill Electronic R&D
- 1996 - Rolls-Royce plc - For the Trent aero-engine
- 1997 - Whipp & Bourne (A division of FKI plc)
- 1998 - Norton Healthcare Limited
- 1999 - Buro Happold for the Millennium Dome design
- 2000 - Johnson Matthey
- 2001 - Sensaura
- 2002 - CDT − For Light-emitting polymers
- 2003 - Randox Laboratories Ltd.
- 2004 - IBM − For the WebSphere MQ
- 2005 - CSR plc
- 2006 - Optos plc
