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.
Lucy Rogers | |
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Born | Lucy Elizabeth Rogers May 1973 (age 50)[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] |
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 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]