Lucy Rogers

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Lucy Rogers

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Lucy Rogers presenting at ThingMonk in 2017
BornLucy Elizabeth Rogers
May 1973 (age 49) [1]
Alma mater
Website lucyrogers.com
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]

Lucy Elizabeth Rogers 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.

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Education

Rogers 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

She 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

Rogers 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 2022, she won the "Women in Aerospace and Aviation Committee Award" [14] from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In 2019, she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates. [15]

In 2013, she was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign award. [16]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  3. 1 2 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. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. "Can these six celebrity-created inventions change your life?". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
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  7. "Visiting Professors - 2019/20 Awardees". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering . Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  8. "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.
  9. "Space Team Project – Final Technical Report – Removing Orbital Debris: A Global Space Challenge" (PDF). spacedebrisresearch.com. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  10. "Comedy and the art of STEM communication". theengineer.co.uk. The Engineer. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Guild of Makers". guildofmakers.org. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  12. Anon (2020). "Academy welcomes 53 leading UK and international engineers as new Fellows". London: Royal Academy of Engineering . Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  13. Lalloo, Manisha (2013). "Professor Mark Miodownik wins prize for public engagement with engineering". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  14. "RAeS Honours, Medals & Awards" (PDF). Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  15. "Alumni awards for high-flying Lancaster graduates". lancaster.ac.uk. Lancaster University. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  16. "WISE Awards 2013". wisecampaign.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2018.