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News Release from: Sheffield Hallam University
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 November 2005
British engineering lecture looks at
role
President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Alec Broers will follow up his lecture at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) with a talk at Sheffield Hallam University.
President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Alec Broers will follow up his lecture at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) with a talk at Sheffield Hallam University Lord Broers gives the UK's annual lecture from HEPI today (Thursday 24), and will come to Sheffield to give a special lecture on British engineering in February
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He is also Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee and a former Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.
He has always expressed strong views about the role of engineers in society, and is committed to breaking down barriers between engineering and science.
In this year's Reith lectures for the BBC, Lord Broers said technology is a triumph of international collaboration and is determining the future of the human race.
He argued technology must be embraced and given the profile it deserves.
Otherwise, technology will remain sidelined and undervalued - a major social failing that will progressively disadvantage us all.
Lord Broers FREng FRS, President of The Royal Academy of Engineering will speak at the University on Friday 17 February, 2006.
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