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Academy Awards Sponsors 2009
BAE Systems is the premier global defence, security
and aerospace company delivering a full range
of products and services for air, land and naval
forces, as well as advanced electronics, security,
information technology solutions and customer support
services. With approximately 105,000
employees worldwide, BAE Systems' sales exceeded
£18.5 billion (US $34.4 billion) in 2008.
The company is delighted to be sponsoring The Royal Academy of
Engineering Awards which reward and promote the very
best of the UK’s engineering talents. With 18,000
engineers, we are the biggest employer of engineers
in the UK and committed to ensuring the UK retains
its technological lead and engineering capability. And, to ensure we meet future skills requirements, BAE Systems invests over £40 million per annum in
education and skills activities in the UK alone.
Every year we recruit around 300 engineering
graduates and have 1,000apprentices in training at
any one time.
As part of this, we are excited to be
working with The Royal Academy of Engineering on a
major new programme which will fund teacher training
for the Engineering diploma and resources for after-schools engineering
clubs.
www.baesystems.com
 Innovation
is, for the Bosch Group, at the heart of everything.
In 2008, Bosch spent a record sum of 3.9billion
euros on research and development, resulting in more
than 3,000 patents being registered. This makes an
average of 14 new patents a day. Today, more than
32,000 Bosch associates around the world are working
in the field of R&D.
The Bosch slogan, ‘Invented for
Life’, guides our company strategy - we want to
provide lasting answers to ecological questions. That
is why, this year, we will invest around 45 percent
of our R&D budget to projects that aim to conserve
resources and protect the environment.
The Bosch Group now generates a third of its sales through
products that meet the criteria of conserving
resources and protecting the environment. In the UK,
for example, Bosch Rexroth manufactures hydraulic
drives and gearboxes for wind turbines; Worcester,
Bosch Group manufactures solar panels and ground
source heat pumps for domestic heating.
In March 2008, building began on the new production facility
for the Bosch Solar Energy Division, manufacturing
crystalline solar cells and modules. Between now and
2012, 530 million euros will be invested in this new
factory in Arnstadt, Germany and 1,100 new jobs will
be created. This provides interesting career
opportunities for engineers who want to be at the
forefront of renewable energy technologies.
Also, in April 2009, a Bosch Rexroth plant for wind-turbine
gearboxes was opened in Nuremberg, Germany. Bosch has
committed to investing 180 million Euros in this
plant up to 2013.
The Independent – Bosch Technology
Horizons Award has been running for four successful
years. The success of the competition is due to the
strong partnership between the Independent
Newspaper, Bosch and The Royal Academy of Engineering
to inspire a fascination in young people with
modern technology. Our ambition is that this will
lead them to a future career in engineering. This
year, we have received a record number of entries and
the quality of the essays has been outstanding.
The
Bosch Group is proud to sponsor this event. We look
forward to seeing the winning students of
the Independent-Bosch Technology Horizons competition
presented with their awards. In addition, we will be
celebrating the success of the Bosch Engineer of the
Future, who will receive his award along with the
other sponsors’ Young Engineers.
www.bosch.co.uk
 Shell supports The Royal Academy of Engineering in promoting
excellence in engineering. For Shell, engineering is
at the heart of what we do. Without our engineers
pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, we
wouldn’t be extracting oil at a depth of 2,380
metres in the Gulf of Mexico. Nor would we be able to
supply a premium fuel like Shell V-Power, which was
developed through our technical partnership with the
Ferrari team, Formula One.
Encouraging our engineers
to be a part of The Royal Academy of Engineering is
really important to us. Last year, Ken Innes, our
Head of Rotating Equipment won the Silver Medal,
recognising him for his innovative work in developing
rotating equipment monitoring and optimisation
tools. And in 2007,Shell Professor of Sustainable
Development in Energy, Nigel Brandon, also won the
Silver Medal, highlighting our proud ties with
Imperial College London.
This year sees one of our
young engineers, Edwige Lindsey, recognised for her
outstanding work as a Process Engineer in Shell’s
Energy Recovery Plant at our Stanlow Refinery near
Manchester. Edwige has championed changes that have
not only had significant positive financial impacts
for Shell, but have also reduced the environmental
footprint of the plant.
We are a global company
employing around 102,000 people across more than 100
countries. Our operations include exploring and
producing oil, refining, chemicals, trading and
shipping, gas and power, and oil sands. In the UK we
operate the country’s second-largest refinery
and have more than 900 shell-branded service
stations. The UK is also home to part of Shell’s
research and development arm, Shell Global Solutions,
near Chester.
www.shell.co.uk
 Arup is
proud to be supporting The Royal Academy of
Engineering Awards Dinner. Arup has a long
and distinguished collaboration with The Royal
Academy of Engineering, both through its work as
a corporate supporter and through the active
participation of its many Fellows of The Royal
Academy of Engineering.
Arup is an independent firm
of designers, engineers, planners and business
consultants with offices around the world. Founded in
1946 with an initial focus on structural
engineering, Arup first came to the world’s attention
with the structural design of the Sydney Opera
House, followed by its work on other iconic projects
such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arup has since
grown into a truly multidisciplinary organisation,
and its recent work for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
has reaffirmed its reputation for delivering
innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the
built environment.
www.arup.com
 BP is
one of the world’s largest energy companies,
providing its customers with fuel for
transportation, energy for heat and light, retail
services and petrochemicals products for everyday
items.
The President of the Academy is the former CEO
of BP and both the Head of Exploration and
Production and the Group Head of Engineering are
Fellows of the Academy.
BP has been sponsoring the
Academy Awards Dinner for a number of years in
recognition of the importance of these prestigious
engineering awards to the promotion of excellence in
UK engineering.
www.bp.com
 E.ON is
one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies –
generating and distributing electricity,
and retailing power and gas – and is one part of the
E.ON Group, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power
and gas companies.
We are investing millions of
pounds to find the best ways to help bring forward
low carbon energy and energy efficiencies.
Extending to more than 200 ongoing projects, our Research and
Development programme is delivered through E.ON
Engineering, a main focus of innovation, energy
technologies and engineering in the company.
Our dual aim is to achieve short-term gains from maximising
day-to-day power plant operation and toidentify the
most practicable and commercially feasible steps to
longer-term energy related carbon reduction.
We are
developing techniques and concepts in areas
including renewable energy sources such as geothermal
and wind, the production of biogas to natural gas
quality, the use of fuel cells in homes, and the
reduction of CO2emissions in our power
plants.
Achieving new milestones in energy technology
is an important part of our work. E.ON is proud
to sponsor The Royal Academy of Engineering and these
awards that highlight the best of British engineering
achievement in the field of innovation.
www.eon-uk.com
 Thales
UK is delighted to sponsor the Academy Awards Dinner
for 2009. The Academy plays a critical role in the
development and maintenance of the UK's engineering
and technological capability, and recent events in
the financial markets have re-emphasised how
important these are to the well being of the UK as a
whole. Innovation and technology are likely to be
the key contributors to pulling the UK's economy out
of recession.
Thales UK has large and expanding
graduate and apprenticeship programmes and works
closely with the Academy on the professional aspects.
Many of our employees are associated with the
Academy, and some of our Academy Fellows will be
present tonight celebrating the achievements of the
award winners and looking forward to the continuing
advance of the Academy.
Thales is a major industrial
force in the UK, with 8,500 employees based at 40
locations throughout all regions. Thales UK provides
systems at the heart of the UK’s military
capability, as well as delivering technologies from
flight simulation and secure transactions to ground
transportation and security. Annual revenues are
around £1.2 billion, over a third of which comes from
exports.
Thales UK has the expertise, skills and
capability, both technically and financially, to
undertake prime contracting and is committed to
understanding and serving the needs of all its
customers and delivering on quality, time and
cost.
Globally, Thales Group employs 68,000 people in
50countries, including 22,500 research &
development engineers, acknowledged as leaders in
their fields.
Major successes signal the excellent
quality of its technical, industrial and economic
capabilities and are an endorsement of its ability to
partner effectively with its customers and
co-ordinate a broad range of skill-sets
and technologies.
www.thalesgroup.com/uk
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