Contents

Ingenia - Issue 43, Jun 2010

Editorial

On Target

Dr Scott Steedman FREng

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Opinion

Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Accidental systems and unintended consequences

Dr Martyn Thomas CBE FREng

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Letters

Responses to: 'Lessons learnt'; Response to: 'Modernising national infrastructure'

Dr Stephen Bold FREng; David Bayliss OBE FREng

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Sponsors

ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Rolls-Royce plc

The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia: ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Rolls-Royce plc

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In Brief

Amy goes for Gold; Millennium Technology Prize; SET for success; Global Water Security; Science for All; The seed cathedral; EXTRA: Volcanic ash and the gas turbine engine

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Profile

Man who lit up the world - Professor Charles Kao CBE FREng

Michael Kenward OBE

Professor Kao proposed a practical optical fibre communication system and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for his work.

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Articles

MacRobert Award 2010

The winner and three finalists of the 2010 MacRobert Award presented at this year’s Academy Awards Dinner

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Underground coal gasification

Paul Younger FREng, Jon Gluyas, Martin Cox, Dermot Roddy

Underground coal gasification has the potential to exploit more of the UK’s coal reserves and can be coupled with carbon capture and storage

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Practical Action

Andrew Scott

An international charity that generates templates of simple engineering solutions for people worldwide to copy and implement

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Infinity crosses the Tees

Professor Chris Wise FREng, Tim Harris

The Infinity Footbridge in Stockton has won many awards and is the centrepiece for the region’s regeneration

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Electric Vehicles

Professor Roger Kemp FREng

The Royal Academy of Engineering has produced a report that looks at the options and likely implementation for electric vehicle development

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Innovation Watch - Secure Hypervisor

‘Virtualisation’ enables computing resources to be optimised for power and performance

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Game On

Siân Harris

A look at the development of the video game industry with its cross-over benefits to other engineering sectors

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