Lucy Rogers

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.

For the American politician, see Lucy Rogers (politician).

Lucy Rogers

CEng FREng FIMechE
Lucy Rogers presenting at ThingMonk in 2017
BornLucy Elizabeth Rogers
May 1973 (age 50)[1]
Alma mater
Websitelucyrogers.com
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical engineering
Public awareness of science
Institutions
ThesisFoam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment (2001)
Doctoral advisorMartin Widden[3]

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. 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]

References
  1. Anon (2021). "Lucy Rogers Makertorium". gov.uk. London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2022.
  2. 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. 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
  4. 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.
  6. "Ingenia - Inventing a communication revolution". www.ingenia.org.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  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.
  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.
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