Lucy Elizabeth Rogers (born 1973) is a British author, inventor, and engineer. She is a visiting professor of engineering, creativity and communication at Brunel University London and has served as a judge on the

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

Education

Rogers studied mechanical engineering at

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with an industrial placement year at Rolls-Royce Power Systems. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. She stayed in Lancaster for her

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which investigated how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical 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

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. In 2008 she published ''It's ONLY Rocket Science'', a plain English guide to the mechanics of spaceflight. Rogers hosts ''The DesignSpark Podcast'' with comedians

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and

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. 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 Chartered Engineer (CEng) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020. The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public. She is also a

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(FIMechE). In 2024 she received an

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for "Services to Engineering". In 2022 she won the "Women in Aerospace and Aviation Committee Award" from the Royal Aeronautical Society and became an Honorary Fellow of the

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