Lucy Rogers
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 Rogers presenting at ThingMonk, 2017 | |
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Lucy Rogers FREng FIMechE FRAS FBIS is a science author,[1] inventor,[2] and a judge[3] on the BBC2 show Robot Wars. She is currently the Visiting Professor of Engineering: Creativity and Communication[4] at Brunel University London. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.[5]
Education
After obtaining a BEng in mechanical engineering at Lancaster University she completed a PhD – studying how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical fires.[6]
She attended NASA's Singularity University Graduate Studies Program in 2011, where she co-authored a report on orbital debris.[7]
In 2019, she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates.[8]
Public engagement with science
Rogers is an active science communicator, giving public talks and media interviews.
In 2008 she published It's ONLY Rocket Science, a plain English guide to the mechanics of space flight.[9]
In 2013, she was shortlisted for the WISE Award.[10]
The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public.[11] She hosts The DesignSpark Podcast (titled History Makers for its first series) with comedians Bec Hill and Harriet Braine.[12]
In 2018, she founded the Guild of Makers to bring together makers from all disciplines and skill levels, which ran until 2020.[13]
References
- ^ "Lucy Rogers – It's ONLY Rocket Science". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Can these six celebrity-created inventions change your life?". Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "BBC Two – Judges Dr Lucy Rogers, Professor Noel Sharkey and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar deliberate – Robot Wars, Series 8 – Behind the scenes". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Visiting Professors - 2019/20 Awardees". Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ "Academy welcomes 53 leading UK and international engineers as new Fellows". Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Lucy Roger's page on Lancaster University's website". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Space Team Project – Final Technical Report – Removing Orbital Debris: A Global Space Challenge" (PDF). Space Debris Research. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Alumni awards for high-flying Lancaster graduates". Lancaster University. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Lucy Rogers (8 March 2008). It's ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-75378-2.
- ^ "WISE Awards 2013". WISE Campaign. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering website". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Comedy and the art of STEM communication". The Engineer. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Guild of Makers". Guild of Makers. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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- Living people
- BBC television presenters
- Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- British women engineers
- British roboticists
- British inventors
- British non-fiction writers
- 21st-century women engineers
- Women inventors
- English inventors
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering