Lucy Elizabeth Rogers (born 1973) is a British author, inventor, and engineer. She is a

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of engineering, creativity and communication at

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and has served as a judge on the

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show '' Robot Wars'' from 2016 to 2018.

Education

Rogers studied

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at Lancaster University with an industrial placement year at

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. She graduated with a

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degree. She stayed in Lancaster for her

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which investigated how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight

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fires.

Career, research and public engagement

She attended NASA's

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graduate studies program in 2011, where she co-authored a report on space debris. In 2008 she published ''It's ONLY Rocket Science'', a plain English guide to the mechanics of

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. Rogers hosts ''The DesignSpark Podcast'' with comedians

Bec Hill Rebecca Natani Hill is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, actor, director, and YouTuber born in Adelaide who is now based in the UK. Career Hill incorporates arts and crafts into her stand-up routines in something she calls paper puppe ...

and

Harriet Braine Harriet Braine is a musical comedian and archivist. In 2017 she won the Funny Women Awards, for which she was mentored by Ellie Taylor, and she was Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards. The same year Braine was a finalist in the So You Thin ...

. In 2018, she founded the Guild of Makers to bring together makers from all disciplines and skill levels, which ran until 2020.

Awards and honours

Rogers is a

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(CEng) and was elected a

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(FREng) in 2020. The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public. She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE). in 2022, she won the "Women in Aerospace and Aviation Committee Award" from the

Royal Aeronautical Society The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British multi-disciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. Founded in 1866, it is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. Members, Fellows ...

. In 2019, she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates. In 2013, she was shortlisted for the

WISE Campaign The WISE Campaign (Women into Science and Engineering) encourages women and girls to value and pursue science, technology, engineering and maths-related courses in school or college and move on into related careers and progress. Its mission statem ...

award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Lucy Living people BBC television presenters Alumni of Lancaster University Alumni of Fylde College, Lancaster Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers British women engineers British roboticists Women roboticists British inventors British non-fiction writers 21st-century women engineers Women inventors English inventors Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1973 births