Lucy Elizabeth Rogers MBE CEng FREng FIMechE (born 1973)[1] is a British author, inventor, and engineer.[4][5][6] She is a visiting professor of engineering, creativity and communication[7] at Brunel University London and has served as a judge on the BBC Two show Robot Wars[8] from 2016 to 2018.
Lucy Rogers | |
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 Lucy Rogers presenting at ThingMonk in 2017 | |
| Born | Lucy Elizabeth Rogers May 1973 (age 51)[1] |
| Alma mater | |
| Website | lucyrogers |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mechanical engineering Public awareness of science |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Widden[3] |
Education
editRogers studied mechanical engineering at Lancaster University with an industrial placement year at Rolls-Royce Power Systems.[2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree.[when?] She stayed in Lancaster for her PhD which investigated how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical fires.[3][2]
Career, research and public engagement
editShe attended NASA's Singularity University graduate studies program in 2011, where she co-authored a report on space debris.[9]
In 2008 she published It's ONLY Rocket Science, a plain English guide to the mechanics of spaceflight.[4]
Rogers hosts The DesignSpark Podcast with comedians Bec Hill and Harriet Braine.[10]
In 2018 she founded the Guild of Makers to bring together makers from all disciplines and skill levels, which ran until 2020.[11]
Awards and honours
editRogers is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020.[12] The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public.[13] She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE).
In 2024 she received an MBE for "Services to Engineering".[14]
In 2022 she won the "Women in Aerospace and Aviation Committee Award"[15] from the Royal Aeronautical Society and became an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers.[16]
In 2019 she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates.[17]
In 2013 she was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign award.[18]
References
edit- ^ a b c Anon (2021). "Lucy Rogers Makertorium". gov.uk. London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Meet our alumni: Dr Lucy Rogers". lancaster.ac.uk. Lancaster University. Archived from the original on 20 July 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ a b Rogers, Lucy Elizabeth (2001). Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment. lancaster.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Lancaster. doi:10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1239. OCLC 1261383567. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.250575.
- ^ a b Lucy Rogers (2008). It's ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-75378-2. OCLC 1125858748.
- ^ "Can these six celebrity-created inventions change your life?". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "Ingenia - Inventing a communication revolution". www.ingenia.org.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ "Visiting Professors - 2019/20 Awardees". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ "BBC Two – Judges Dr Lucy Rogers, Professor Noel Sharkey and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar deliberate – Robot Wars, Series 8 – Behind the scenes". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Space Team Project – Final Technical Report – Removing Orbital Debris: A Global Space Challenge" (PDF). spacedebrisresearch.com. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Comedy and the art of STEM communication". theengineer.co.uk. The Engineer. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Guild of Makers". guildofmakers.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ Anon (2020). "Academy welcomes 53 leading UK and international engineers as new Fellows". London: Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ Lalloo, Manisha (2013). "Professor Mark Miodownik wins prize for public engagement with engineering". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Page B23 | Supplement 64423, 15 June 2024 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "RAeS Honours, Medals & Awards" (PDF). Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Lancaster University on LinkedIn: Congratulations to Professor Lucy Rogers, one of our alumni awardees in…". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "Alumni awards for high-flying Lancaster graduates". lancaster.ac.uk. Lancaster University. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "WISE Awards 2013". wisecampaign.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
