Contents
Ingenia - Issue 71, June 2017
Opinion
Robotics and AI – driving the UK’s industrial strategy
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang CBE FREng
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang CBE FREng sets out how investment in robotics and AI could improve innovation in the UK and secure our place as a world leader in the technologies.
Profile
Thinking about the revolutions
Michael Kenward OBE
Professor Neville Jackson FREng joined Ricardo when he completed university. For more than three decades, he has helped the company to stay at the cutting-edge of engineering technologies.
The technology behind The Tempest
Richard Gray, Sarah Ellis, Ben Lumsden and Tawny Schlieski
Motion-capture technology that is usually used on film sets is being employed live on stage to bring elements of Shakespeare’s play to life.
World record-breaking bridge
Hugh Ferguson, Michael Martin, David Climie and Peter Curran
The Queensferry Crossing is the largest construction project carried out in Scotland so far this century. It will be Britain’s tallest bridge when it opens later this summer.
An aircraft like no other
Geoff Watts, Chris Daniels and David Burns
The Airlander is the world’s largest aircraft and, when in flight, can stay in the air for weeks at a time if necessary.
Solving a historical mystery
Sarah Griffiths and Professor Sarah Hainsworth FREng
The discovery of Richard III’s remains underneath a Leicester car park made headlines around the world. Forensic engineering science helped researchers find out how he died.
MacRobert award 2017
Supported by the worshipful company of Engineers
The 2017 finalists are Darktrace, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Vision RT.
HOW DOES THAT WORK? - Spectrum
Radio spectrum is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum, a continuous range of wavelengths, that is widely used in modern technology.
INNOVATION WATCH - Farming straight up
Growing plants without soil is transforming how crops are grown across the world.
HOW I GOT HERE
Q & A - Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan
Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan is Co-founder and CEO of PervasID. His company provides radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers for low-cost, long-distance sensing of passive RFID tags, for use in tracking in retail, security and healthcare.
Editorial Board
The members of the Ingenia editorial board
| Editor-in-Chief | Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng | |
| Managing Editor | Gemma Hummerston | |
| Editorial Assistant | Portia Sale | |
| Editorial Board | Professor John Burland CBE FREng FRS Derek Hanson FREng Michael Kenward OBE Professor David Delpy FREng FMedSci FRS John Loughhead OBE FREng Dr Ian Nussey OBE FREng Professor William Stewart FREng Professor Liz Tanner OBE FREng FRSE Faith Wainwright MBE FREng Professor William Webb FREng |
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| Director of Policy and External Affairs | Beverley Parkin | |
Sponsors
The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia: Rolls-Royce plc, BAE Systems, Arup.
The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia:
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Rolls-Royce plc
Rolls-Royce’s vision is to create better power for a changing world via two main business divisions, Aerospace and Land & Sea. These business divisions address markets with two strong technology platforms: gas turbines and reciprocating engines. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising of more than 380 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers, including 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers. Annual underlying revenue was £14.6 billion in 2014 and the firm’s announced order book stood at £73.7 billion at the end of 2014. In 2014, Rolls-Royce invested £1.2 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research. Rolls-Royce employs over 54,000 people in more than 50 countries. Over 15,500 of these are engineers. |
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BAE Systems
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Arup
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