MacRobert Award
The MacRobert Award is widely recognized as one of the highest industry engineering awards in the UK. It was founded in 1969 by the McRobert Trust, which is named after Rachel Workman MacRobert (1884-1954), widow of the millionaire and founder of the British India Corporation textile company Alexander MacRobert . Today it is awarded annually by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Worshipful Company of Engineers . It is endowed with 50,000 pounds.
Award winners
- 1969 - Freeman Fox & Partners for the Severn Bridge and Rolls-Royce for the Rolls-Royce Pegasus
- 1970 - British Petroleum for accurate new exploration techniques for petroleum in Alaskan permafrost
- 1971 - The Gas Council for a range of gas processing processes
- 1972 - EMI Limited for advances in brain x-ray imaging and diagnosis of brain disease
- 1973 - Dunlop for the Denovo tires and wheels
- 1974 - Imperial Chemical Industries , Agriculture Department, for developing highly active catalysts for methanol production
- 1975 - Westland Helicopters for the semi-rigid rotor system and gearbox (conformal gearing) of the Westland Lynx helicopter and British Railways for the development of rail car suspension
- 1976 - not awarded
- 1977 - Royal Signals and Radar Establishment and Malvern Instruments for the Malvern correlator (measurement of the speed of small particles or molecules)
- 1978 - Pilkington Brothers, for the Triplex Ten-Twenty laminated windowpanes for cars and airplanes
- 1979 - Post Office Telecommunication for the Prestel viewdata software system.
- 1980 - Johnson Matthey for catalytic converters
- 1981 - Lucas CAV for the Mikrojector, a miniaturized injector for diesel engines
- 1982 - Kaldair Limited for the Indair / Mardaer flaring system for natural gas on offshore oil production platforms
- 1983 - Ruston Gas Turbines for the Tornado and other industrial gas turbines
- 1984 - Netlon Limited for polymer mesh for the construction industry
- 1985 - National Institute of Agricultural Engineering for feed preparation machines and Rolls Royce for X-ray inspection of gas turbines
- 1986 - Oxford Instruments for superconducting magnets for medical diagnostic equipment
- 1987 - Renishaw Metrology for accurate industrial measuring equipment
- 1988 - Quantel for the Paintbox TV graphics system and the Harry video editing system
- 1989 - British Gas plc for intelligent pigs (inspection of pipe systems from the inside)
- 1990 - The Science and Engineering Research Council for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- 1991 - Rover Group for the Rover Metro and as another winner Defense Research Agency and BAE Systems Avionics for the Nightbird night vision system
- 1992 - British Petroleum for Hydraulic Fracturing
- 1993 - Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI Klea) for the refrigerant Klea for refrigerators (protection of the ozone layer)
- 1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to develop plows for laying deep-sea cables and pipes
- 1995 - British Gas and Gill Electronic R&D for an ultrasonic gas detector with no moving parts
- 1996 - Rolls Royce for the Rolls-Royce Trent
- 1997 - Whipp & Bourne for a compact gas-filled vacuum recloser can be used for power grids, which is maintenance free and are also used in remote regions
- 1998 - Norton Healthcare Limited for the Easi-Breath-Inhaler
- 1999 - Buro Happold for the design of the Millennium Dome
- 2000 - Johnson Matthey for Continuous Regenerating Trap (CRT), control of exhaust gas values in diesel engines
- 2001 - Sensaura for Sensaura 3D Positional Audio
- 2002 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) for light emitting polymers
- 2003 - Randox Laboratories for the Automatic Diagnostic Device (Protein Biochip Array) Evidence
- 2004 - IBM for WebSphere MQ
- 2005 - CSR plc. for the bluetooth chips (BlueCore)
- 2006 - Optos plc for Panoramic200 (scanning laser ophthalmoscopy )
- 2007 - Process Systems Enterprise, for the gPROMS software for mathematical modeling
- 2008 - Touch Bionics for a bionic hand (I-LIMB hand)
- 2009 - Arup for the Beijing National Swimming Center
- 2010 - Inmarsat for their Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)
- 2011 - Microsoft Research Cambridge for the machine learning software of the Human Motion Capture System from Kinect
- 2012 - Jaguar Land Rover for the Range Rover Evoque
- 2013 - RealVNC for VNC remote access software
- 2014 - Cobalt Light Systems for the Insight100 airport security liquid scanner (security scanner for small liquid containers e.g. at airports)
- 2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power for Digital Displacement hydraulic transmission (potential for wind turbines, etc.).
- 2016 - Blatchford (by Saeed Zahedi ) for an intelligent lower limb prosthesis
- 2017 - Raspberry Pi microcomputer
- 2018 - Owlstone Medical , Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS) for chemical sensor technology on chips