“Every year the judges review and assess scores of great entries to whittle them down to the shortlist. This year’s BEEAs entries are brilliantly diverse and continue to prove that British design innovation and engineering lead the world,” said Eric Wilkinson, chairman of the judging panel and CEO designate at Cambridge Consultants.“It has been a great privilege to Chair the BEEAs judging panel and as ever it was difficult to agree on the shortlist.From innovative Start-Ups and inspiring Young Design Engineers to ground-breaking Materials Applications and state-of-the-art New Products, the strength of the shortlisted entries demonstrates all that is great about British design engineering.”
The companies shortlisted in each BEEAs category are:
Consultancy of the Year
Penso Group
Spacechips Ltd
CircuitWorx
GRM Consulting
ITL Group (Integrated Technologies Limited)
Drive System Design Ltd
Design Engineer of the Year
Louis Verdegem - Bosch Rexroth
Graham Paul Fick - Zikodrive Motor Controllers
Vernon Kerswell - Extreme Fliers
Dave Swan - Tharsus Group
Jake Wallis – Lontra
Design Team of the Year
Customer Focussed Innovation Team - Jaguar Land Rover
Extreme Fliers - Microdrone
RackEye - A-Safe
PRaVDA: Enhancing Proton Beam Therapy for Cancer Treatment - University of Lincoln
ITC (Integrated Topload Cartoner) Project - Kliklok International
Engineering Ambassador
Iulia Motoc
TDK-Lambda UK
RS Components
Designability
Rapid Electronics
Materials Application of the Year
Metallic glass composites with optimum wear and antimicrobial performance - Northumbria University
Lucian PLW7070 High Power LED using GaN-on-Si technology - Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
Composite Lightweight Rail Door - Penso Group
Jaguar Land Rover Hybrid Engine Sump - GRM Consulting
Abbey Well Twist Water Bottle - Kinneir Dufort
New Product (Electronic) of the Year
Gecko-SL series of connectors
XJTAG DFT Assistant
SprintIR6S
Lucian PLW7070 High Power LED
Peratech QTC based 3D Multi-Touch Matrix Sensor
New Product (Mechanical) of the Year
High Visibility Biopsy Needle
Hot Spot Locator
Libralato rotary hybrid engine
mag-Net wearable connector
Russell AMPro Sieve Station
The Aeristech "sole Supercharger" or "sCharger" for engine downsizing and CO2 emissions reduction
New Product (Aerospace) of the Year
Artemis - Smith Myers Communications
Next Generation Satellite Receiver - Spacechips Ltd
Vertex – Exclin
Micro Drone 3.0 – Extreme Fliers
Small Company of the Year
Synergie Environ Ltd
Spacechips Ltd
Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd
Open Bionics
Emblation Ltd
Start Up of the Year
Libralato Ltd
Spacechips Ltd
CircuitWorx
Open Bionics
Bristol Braille Technology
Young Designer of the Year
David Cullimore - Prodrive
Sam Scargill - Jacobs
Liam Harrison - Tharsus
Rob Hanson - Designability
Tom Kelley - Precision Acoustics Ltd
Sarah Jessica Dempsey - Peratech
The winners will be announced at a gala lunch at the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), London, on 5th October.
To join in the celebration of British engineering tables for the lunch can be booked online at: http://www.beeas.co.uk/book-a-table/