Lucy Rogers | |
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![]() Lucy Rogers presenting at ThingMonk in 2017 | |
Born | Lucy Elizabeth Rogers May 1973 (age 51) [1] |
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Website | lucyrogers![]() |
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Fields | Mechanical engineering Public awareness of science |
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Thesis | Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Martin Widden [3] |
Lucy Elizabeth Rogers (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.
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]
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]
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 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]