Royal Charter
Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FRS FREng
Professor Dame Ann Dowling has reached the pinnacle of engineering as head of the UK’s biggest department of engineering, managing 145 academic staff at the University of Cambridge. In 1998, she became the first woman to be appointed to a professorship in the engineering department at Cambridge.
Much of Professor Dowling’s success has been achieved in a branch of engineering where female representation is particularly low – aeronautics – making her a vital role model in this male-dominated industry.
She is a leading authority on aircraft noise, helping Concorde to become airborne through her work, and leading the UK side of the Silent Aircraft Project. NASA is now using the concept in their 2020 Vision. Her current research continues to benefit society as it aims to lower not only the sound pollution of combustion engines, but also emissions. This makes her a key figure in the aviation industry’s ambitions to reduce its carbon footprint.
Professor Dowling has always been engaged in outreach activities, including talks and demonstrations for school children, preparing major exhibits about the Silent Aircraft Project for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and the Science Museum.
Sir Martin Sweeting FRS FREng
Sir Martin Sweeting is Chairman of SSTL – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, an organisation which has been sending small satellites into space longer, more successfully and more economically than any other company in the world. SSTL launched their first satellite in partnership with NASA in 1981 and since then have launched 28 further missions.
SSTL specialise in designing, building and launching small satellites quickly and cost- effectively, making space more accessible. Satellites carry out a range of functions including earth observation and imaging, scientific research, defence and testing instrumentation in space. All satellites and almost all components are designed, built assembled and tested in house.
Amanda Chessell
Amanda (Mandy) Chessell is a computer scientist and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. She has a record of prolific middleware inventiveness and has been awarded the title of IBM Master Inventor. She is also a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Outside IBM, Ms Chessell is the first woman to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and has subsequently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield.
Ms Chessell joined IBM in 1987. Her early work focused on distributed transaction processing, adding features to products such as CICS, Encina, Component Broker and WebSphere Application Server. She has also work on event management, business process modelling and outside-in design (OID).
Today, her work is focused on developing model-driven tools to simplify the analysis and design of large systems and then to automate their development. This work covers the development of user interfaces, services, information integration technology in the field of Data Governance and Master Data Management.
an ME in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India and a BE in Mechanical Engineering, University of Calcutta, India.
Professor Amaresh Chakrabarti
Professor Chakrabarti from the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore. He has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge,
His main areas of interest are: functional synthesis, design creativity, design methodology, collaborative design, eco-design, engineering design, design synthesis, requirements management, knowledge management, computer aided design, design for variety.
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