Beth Gwyer, student at Brunel University, wins Cadzow Smith Award 2022
Beth Gwyer, a final year student on Brunel University’s five year MEng degree in Engineering, has won the Cadzow Smith medal and £2500 prize for 2022. She is a technically capable, articulate and enthusiastic candidate who demonstrates the attributes of a future engineering leader. Her…
Andrew Marsden’s Speech at Awards Dinner
Master, Wardens, visiting Masters, Distinguished guest, L&G From the point of view of your guests Master, the evening has been very far from that. This is a very special evening for us all to attend, a wonderful venue, excellent food, and convivial company. An evening…
July 2022: Master Audrey Canning
July commenced ‘without passing home’ as John and I arrived in Wales immediately after leaving Blackpool. Here we enjoyed the second of the regional visits of the year, a ‘Mini Out of Town’ (MOOT) to Cardiff organised by Liveryman Windsor Coles and his partner Sue….
June 2022: Master Audrey Canning
June got off to a flying start with attendance at the 1st Pan Livery Charity Chairs Conference, together with IPM Peter Blair-Fish and Engineers Trust Chair David Johnson. There was an opportunity to meet some 60 other Companies, together with a very interesting talk on…
May 2022: Master Audrey Canning
May got off to a storming start, both for me personally in representing our Livery, and for our Fellowship. Below are some of the events not reported in separate blogs (such as ‘The Future of Air Vehicles‘). My very first event, as a novice Master,…
Dr Alalea Kia wins the 2022 Hawley Award for Net Zero Carbon Innovation for ‘Kiacrete’
Alalea has developed a next-generation climate change resistant permeable pavement (Kiacrete) to mitigate urban flooding, solve long-standing challenges with conventional systems and enhance infrastructure resilience. Kiacrete will help to attain net-zero emissions by 2050 through material savings, longer service-life, recycled material usage, water reuse and…
Alexandra Keeler, IEng MIMechE wins the Engineers Trust Baroness Platt of Writtle Award
Alexandra Keeler, an Overhead Line Design Engineer (Mechanical Engineer) with Amey, is the most outstanding individual registered as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) in 2021. Alex impressed the judges by her clear, confident, and well-structured presentation and her fast career progression from Assistant Signalling Designer to…
Warden’s Lecture 2022: Middle Warden Dolores Byrne
As a graduate of The Queen’s University Belfast I was delighted to deliver the Warden’s Lecture ‘Engineering the Future‘ on board HMS Belfast berthed on the River Thames. ‘Engineering the Future‘, a future which presents us with significant societal challenges such as food production, climate…
Superbloom
31 May saw us hosted for a VIP visit to Superbloom at the Tower of London. Many thanks to the organisers for spending their time explaining to us the rationale and planting. This area has been specially landscaped to preserve the archaeology, and seeded so…
The MacRobert Award 2022 – Finalists Announced
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the three finalists for the 2022 MacRobert Award, due to be announced on 12 July – with the winners, hopefully, attending the Company’s own Awards Ceremony and Dinner on 14 July. The finalists are: Intelligent Growth Solutions for…