MacRobert Award
The MacRobert Award is regarded as the leading prize recognising UK innovation in engineering by corporations.[1] The winning company receives a gold medal and a cash sum of £50,000.
In 2019, the 50th anniversary year of the awards, Royal Mail issued a series of postage stamps marking "the marvels of British engineering", with a new set of 10 stamps that featured, along with other engineering achievements, three past winners of the MacRobert Award.[2]
History
The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1884 - 1954).[3] It was established in 1969 by the MacRobert Trust. In 1979, the Royal Academy of Engineering, took on the administration, supported by the Worshipful Company of Engineers and industry sponsors.
Winners
- 1969 - Freeman Fox & Partners - for the superstructure 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 "For the semi-rigid rotor system and conformal gearing of the Lynx helicopter" and British Railways Board "For developments in railway vehicle suspensions" (Joint Winners)
- 1976 - No award.
- 1977 - Royal Signals Research Establishment and Malvern Instruments "For the Malvern Correlator which measures the movement of particles or molecules" [4]
- 1978 - Pilkington Brothers Limited "For the Triplex Ten-Twenty laminated windscreen for cars and aircraft"
- 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 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) − for light emitting polymers
- 2003 - Randox Laboratories
- 2004 - IBM − for the WebSphere MQ
- 2005 - CSR plc
- 2006 - Optos plc[5]
- 2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
- 2008 - Touch Bionics for the I-LIMB bionic hand[6][7][8]
- 2009 - Arup for the Beijing National Aquatics Center[9]
- 2010 - Inmarsat for its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)[10]
- 2011 - Microsoft Research Cambridge for the machine learning work on the human motion capture subsystem of Kinect[11]
- 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
- 2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power for the innovation of Digital Displacement hydraulic transmission.[1][12] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.[13]
- 2016 - Blatchford for the world's most 'intelligent' prosthetic limb.[14] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.[15]
- 2017 - Raspberry Pi "for its inexpensive credit card-sized microcomputers, which are redefining how people engage with computing, inspiring students to learn coding and computer science and providing innovative control solutions for industry."[16] [17] [18]
- 2018 - Owlstone Medical "for its ReCIVA Breath Sampler, the first device capable of capturing breath samples for analysis in a robust and reproducible way" [19][20]
References
- ^ a b "'Massive leap' wins engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ "Royal Mail celebrates British engineering with set of special stamps". Royal Academy of Engineering (Press release).
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- ^ "Winners 1969-2015 - Royal Academy of Engineering". Winners 1969-2015 - Royal Academy of Engineering.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Back to the future: MacRobert Award 2012 launches by looking back 40 years". Royal Academy of Engineering.
- ^ McArdle, Helen. "Edinburgh firm scoops £50,000 MacRobert prize for innovation shown to cut fuel consumption by up to 27 per cent". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ "Artemis Intelligent Power wins MacRobert Award". RAEng. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ Austin-Morgan, Tom. "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins MacRobert award". Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins UK's top innovation prize". Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "MacRobert award". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Chips that changed the classroom". Ingenia. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
- ^ Cellan-Jones, Rory. "Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Breath Biopsy platform scoops the UK's most prestigious award for engineering innovation". Royal Academy of Engineering (Press release).
- ^ "An easier way to diagnose disease". Ingenia. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
External links
- MacRobert Award
- MacRobert Winners 1969-2015 - Royal Academy of Engineering
- MacRobert Award 2005 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2005
- MacRobert Award 2006 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2006
- MacRobert Award 2007 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2007
- MacRobert Award 2008 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2008