Finalists named in UK’s most prestigious engineering awards

Posted on 28 Apr 2014 by Callum Bentley

The finalists for the UK’s most prestigious engineering award, The MacRobert Award have been announced.

Three UK companies: OptaSense, the UK company creating the ‘Earth’s Nervous System’; Cobalt Light Systems, an SME using materials science to fight terrorism; and Rolls-Royce, the engineering giant behind the world’s first vertical take-off system for a supersonic fighter jet, have been revealed as this year’s finalists. Synonymous with spotting the ‘next big thing’ in…

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