Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)

21 Oct Innovation Economy 2012

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Educating engineers to drive the innovation economy - The UK faces a number of challenges as it moves out of recession and towards growth. We are passing through a period of austerity, the like of which we have not experienced since the late 1940s.
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21 Oct Designing cost-effective care for older people

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Summary of a one-day meeting organised by Age UK and the Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering.
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21 Oct Human enhancement and the future of work

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
A report on a workshop jointly hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering, Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy and the Royal Society.
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21 Oct Additive manufacturing

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2013
A report of a roundtable meeting on the future of additive manufacturing in the UK, reality of the technology and its potential to open up new areas of manufacturing.
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21 Oct Public projects and procurement in the UK sharing experience and changing practice

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2014
A report exploring how taking an engineering approach could help the UK government meet its tactical, operational and strategic objectives for procurement.
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21 Oct Engineering in society

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2014
This e-book aims to provide students with a wider perspective on the profession of engineering. It has been produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Leeds' Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Applied Ethics (IDEA), and is supported by the ICE, IET, IChemE, IOM3 and IMechE, and the Engineering Council.
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21 Oct Educating engineers to drive the innovation economy

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
This report takes the long view on the subject of innovation, highlighting the three major types before focusing on the radical innovation process and how this can be embedded into engineering education. The report proposes a realignment of innovation education for engineers, moving the emphasis from purely downstream improvements in productivity and efficiency towards an upstream emphasis upon creativity and transformation.
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21 Oct Industrial Systems: capturing value through manufacturing

Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE)
2012
This report seeks to make a contribution to the promotion of a broader view of the value of manufacturing and the industrial systems in which it operates We hope that this will, in turn, help stimulate new opportunities for capturing economic value. As part of our project, we undertook an extensive review of the literature with the help of the Institute of Manufacturing in Cambridge, which produced a background analysis to further our understanding. We undertook face-to-face structured interviews with 18 senior business and academic leaders, both to influence the initial scope of the study and inform its final content.
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21 Oct Innovation in technology-based companies

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
A summary of a meeting organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering 19 July 2012 at 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG.
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21 Oct Meet the innovators

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2013
Researcher case studies - As part of the Academy's Engineering for Growth campaign, this collection of case studies profiles the work of engineers engaged in the Academy's research schemes, across multiple disciplines.
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