Profiles
Profile articles are now a regular item in Ingenia issues. These are listed below.
A total of 61 items listed.
Forging links between academia and industry
Michael Kenward OBE
For Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng, materials science has been a common theme in a career that has taken in the academic world at all levels, along with time in the higher echelons of corporate engineering.
Taking engineering to industry
Michael Kenward OBE
As CEO of Rolls-Royce, Warren East CBE FREng is forging links with academia with a keenness to turn engineering research into profitable products
Energy with connections
Steve Holliday FREng
When Steve Holliday FREng moved from the oil industry into energy distribution, the sector was seen as staid.
A web of networks
David Cleevely CBE FREng
David Cleevely CBE FREng’s extensive experience has allowed him to help shake up innovation in the UK
Integrating metrology in business and academe
Professor Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang FREng
Professor Jane Jiang’s interest in measuring began when she worked on a bus production line in China.
Professor Paul Newman FREng
Instilling robots with lifelong learning
Professor Paul Newman FREng explained to Michael Kenward how he came to lead the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group and why the time is right for a revolution in autonomous technologies.
Professor Nick McKeown FREng
Evolving the internet
He may have given the world the technology that speeded up the internet, but in his next move, Professor Nick McKeown FREng plans to replace those networks he helped create.
Dr Ralf Speth FREng
R&D investment makes good business sense
In five years as CEO, Dr Ralf Speth FREng has increased investment and R&D at Jaguar Land Rover, overhauled the company’s production facilities, and incorporated energy-saving technologies and new materials
Michelle McDowell MBE FREng
Michelle McDowell is a civil engineer known for her user-centered design approach; she has led on a portfolio of large-scale construction projects including the restoration of the Royal Albert Hall
By Michael Kenward OBE
Professor Mark Miodownik FREng
His marvellous materials
Professor Mark Miodownik’s fascination with materials
and their properties has led to a career as both a successful
researcher and a high-profile communicator of science and
engineering in the media
By Michael Kenward OBE
Professor William Webb FREng
A strategic thinker
William Webb FREng kick-started his career by changing
the way wireless communications carry data.
By Michael Kenward OBE
Judith Hackitt CBE FREng
Culture of Safety
Safety has been a constant theme in a career that has taken Judith Hackitt from running large processing plants to chairing the UK’s Health and Safety Executive.
by Michael Kenward OBE
