MacRobert Award
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.
History
The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1880 - 1954).[1]
Winners
- 1969 - Freeman Fox & 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
- 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[2]
- 2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
- 2008 - Bionic Hand, the i-LIMB[3][4][5]
- 2009 - Arup for the Beijing National Aquatics Center[6]
- 2010 - Inmarsat for its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)[7]
- 2011 - Microsoft Research Cambridge for the machine learning work on the human motion capture subsystem of Kinect[8]
- 2012 - Jaguar Land Rover for Design and Innovation building Range Rover Evoque
- 2013 - RealVNC for the innovation of VNC Remote Access Software
- 2014 - Cobalt Light Systems for the innovation of Insight100 airport security liquid scanner
References
- ↑ MacRobert Trust
- ↑ Seeing into the Future, Ingenia Magazine, March 2007
- ↑ BBC NEWS, Bionic hand wins top tech prize
- ↑ telegraph.co.uk, World's first commercial bionic hand
- ↑ Palme d'Or, Ingenia Magazine, September 2008
- ↑ "Top prize for Chinese water cube". BBC News. 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ↑ "Inmarsat grabs the MacRobert engineering prize". BBC News. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- ↑ http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=658. Missing or empty
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