MacRobert Award
The MacRobert Award is regarded as the leading prize recognising UK innovation in engineering.[1] It was established in 1969 by the MacRobert Trusts and is now presented by the Royal Academy of Engineering, supported by the Worshipful Company of Engineers and industry sponsors. The winner receives a gold medal and a cash sum of £50,000.
History
The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1884 - 1954).[2]
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 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 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) − for light emitting polymers
- 2003 - Randox Laboratories
- 2004 - IBM − for the WebSphere MQ
- 2005 - CSR plc
- 2006 - Optos plc[3]
- 2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
- 2008 - Touch Bionics for the I-LIMB bionic hand[4][5][6]
- 2009 - Arup for the Beijing National Aquatics Center[7]
- 2010 - Inmarsat for its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)[8]
- 2011 - Microsoft Research Cambridge for the machine learning work on the human motion capture subsystem of Kinect[9]
- 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][10] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.[11]
- 2016 - Blatchford for the world's most 'intelligent' prosthetic limb.[12] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.[13]
References
- ^ a b "'Massive leap' wins engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.