Lucy Rogers Explained

Lucy Rogers
Birth Name:Lucy Elizabeth Rogers
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Fields:Mechanical engineering
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Thesis Url:https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1239
Thesis Title:Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment
Thesis Year:2001
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Widden

Lucy Elizabeth Rogers (born 1973)[1] is a British author, inventor, and engineer.[2] [3] She is a visiting professor of engineering, creativity and communication[4] at Brunel University London and has served as a judge on the BBC Two show Robot Wars[5] from 2016 to 2018.

Education

Rogers studied mechanical engineering at Lancaster University with an industrial placement year at Rolls-Royce Power Systems. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. She stayed in Lancaster for her PhD which investigated how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical fires.[6] [7]

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.[8]

In 2008 she published It's ONLY Rocket Science, a plain English guide to the mechanics of spaceflight.[9]

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 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lucy Rogers Makertorium. gov.uk. London. Anon. 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20220304132750/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/B79Q1znKkZyWJ6-1lopSjdJk0Z8/appointments. 2022-03-04.
  2. Web site: Can these six celebrity-created inventions change your life?. 2019-02-20. bbc.co.uk.
  3. Web site: Ingenia - Inventing a communication revolution . 2022-06-08 . www.ingenia.org.uk.
  4. Web site: Visiting Professors - 2019/20 Awardees . 26 July 2019. raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering.
  5. News: BBC Two – Judges Dr Lucy Rogers, Professor Noel Sharkey and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar deliberate – Robot Wars, Series 8 – Behind the scenes. 7 March 2018. bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  6. Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment. 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1239. 1261383567. lancaster.ac.uk. . University of Lancaster. 2001. PhD. Lucy Elizabeth. Rogers.
  7. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160720050012/https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/postgraduate/meet-our-alumni/dr-lucy-rogers/. 2016-07-20. Meet our alumni: Dr Lucy Rogers. Lancaster University. lancaster.ac.uk. 2016. Anon. 7 March 2018.
  8. Web site: Space Team Project – Final Technical Report – Removing Orbital Debris: A Global Space Challenge . spacedebrisresearch.com. 7 March 2018.
  9. Book: Lucy Rogers. It's ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English. 2008. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-387-75378-2. 1125858748.
  10. Web site: 2020-03-25. Comedy and the art of STEM communication. 2020-11-22. theengineer.co.uk. The Engineer. en-US.
  11. Web site: Guild of Makers. guildofmakers.org . 25 September 2020.
  12. Web site: Academy welcomes 53 leading UK and international engineers as new Fellows . 22 September 2020. Royal Academy of Engineering. London. Anon. 2020.
  13. Web site: Professor Mark Miodownik wins prize for public engagement with engineering. Manisha . Lalloo. Royal Academy of Engineering. raeng.org.uk. 7 March 2018. 2013.
  14. Web site: Page B23 Supplement 64423, 15 June 2024 London Gazette The Gazette . 2024-06-15 . www.thegazette.co.uk.
  15. Web site: RAeS Honours, Medals & Awards . 2022-11-30.
  16. Web site: Lancaster University on LinkedIn: Congratulations to Professor Lucy Rogers, one of our alumni awardees in… . 2024-06-17 . www.linkedin.com . en.
  17. Web site: Alumni awards for high-flying Lancaster graduates . lancaster.ac.uk. Lancaster University. 17 December 2019.
  18. Web site: WISE Awards 2013 . wisecampaign.org.uk. 7 March 2018.

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