Fifty new Fellows have been elected members of The Royal Academy of Engineering at its Annual General Meeting on 11 July, a list that includes three distinguished engineers from Cambridge University.
Fifty new Fellows have been elected members of The Royal Academy of Engineering at its Annual General Meeting on 11 July, a list that includes three distinguished engineers from Cambridge University.
The Royal Academy of Engineering promotes the engineering and technological welfare of the country. It is a counterpart to the Royal Society, which exists to serve the natural sciences. The Fellowship – comprising the UK’s most eminent engineers – provides the leadership and expertise for activities which focus on the relationships between engineering, technology, and the quality of life. The Royal Academy of Engineering provides independent and impartial advice to Government; works to secure the next generation of engineers; and provides a voice for Britain’s engineering community. Established by Royal Charter in 1976, it is an independent, self-governing body of some 1500 Fellows.
The newly elected Fellows of The Royal Academy of Engineering are as follows:
Sir Michael Gregory is a Fellow of Churchill College and the founder and now head of Cambridge University’s internationally respected Institute for Manufacturing. He has had a distinguished career teaching and researching at the forefront of engineering. His work has made a significant contribution to the UK industrial policy and the performance of both large and small companies.
Dr Andy Harter is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and a Visiting Fellow of the Computer Laboratory and founder and CEO of RealVNC. He has made outstanding contributions to software engineering and commercialisation. Amongst his achievements is VNC, a ubiquitous remote access technology deployed on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. VNC is embedded in Intel chips, Apple computers, Linux distributions and Google software, and its enduring utility is distinguished by profoundly simple and versatile engineering. RealVNC has received two Queen’s Awards in 2011.
Dr John Taylor is an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the ultimate example of an entrepreneurial engineering inventor whose drive and success has benefited not only those engineers that work for him, but also the economy of the UK. He has made outstanding lifelong contributions to engineering by inventing thermal controls which exploit the properties of materials and are manufactured by innovative methods for products ranging from kettles to small motors. His company has sold one billion controls for the ubiquitous cordless kettle and received four Queen’s Awards.
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