MacRobert Award

The MacRobert Award has been presented every year since 1969 by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The award seeks to recognise innovative ideas in engineering. The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1880 - 1954). [http://www.themacroberttrust.org.uk/]

Below is a complete list of winners:

*1969- Freeman, Fox and Partners - For the super structure 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 Limited
*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 - CDT − For Light-emitting polymers
*2003 - [http://www.randox.com Randox Laboratories Ltd.]
*2004 - IBM − For the WebSphere MQ
*2005 - CSR plc
*2006 - Optos plc
*2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
*2008 - Bionic Hand, the i-LIMB [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7443866.stm BBC NEWS, Bionic hand wins top tech prize] ] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/06/10/scilimb110.xml telegraph.co.uk, World's first commercial bionic hand] ]

External links

* [http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/macrobert/default.htm MacRobert Award]
* [http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=316 MacRober Award 2005 winner and finalists, "Ingenia" Magazine] , June 2005
* [http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=376 MacRober Award 2006 winner and finalists, "Ingenia" Magazine] , June 2006
* [http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=435 MacRober Award 2007 winner and finalists, "Ingenia" Magazine] , June 2007
* [http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?index=493 MacRober Award 2008 winner and finalists, "Ingenia" Magazine] , June 2008

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