Society and Technology

21 Oct

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Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2011
The 2011 Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Lecture.  The construction work for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a complex job. It has been compared to building two of the Heathrow Terminal 5 in half the time.  This lecture was delivered by John Armitt, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the body responsible for delivering this work. In his lecture he will describe the various engineering and construction challenges from governance, land assembly, budget agreement, stakeholder relations, planning, programme management and how they were overcome.

21 Oct

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Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
France is a major player in nuclear physics and its applications, in particular in the electro-nuclear energy domain. The monograph is a widely accessible synthesis of the nuclear energy sector development in France. It describes the stakes of nuclear technologies and the challenges to overcome to make political and technical choices. The author analyses the importance of organisational structures and of the human factors to successfully develop programs and to overcome difficulties.

21 Oct

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Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
2012
On rising the threshold of required tender procedures for expenses related to research (a commentary to the law in force). Rising the threshold will enable more expeditious scientific research and rise the competitiveness and innovativeness of Polish research institutions.

21 Oct

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Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
A briefing paper that addresses the role engineers play in making strategic high-level decisions in a wide range of organisations from private companies, both big and small, to government agencies.

21 Oct

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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.

21 Oct

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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.

21 Oct

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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.

21 Oct

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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.

21 Oct

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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.

21 Oct

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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.