Anyone can make a nomination for an engineer, or a group of engineers, responsible for a groundbreaking innovation that has been of global benefit to humanity.
Nominations are now open for the second Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) which will be awarded in 2015. For further information on the scheme, visit QEPRIZE NOMINATIONSĢ013 Prize winner Vinton Cerf at a QEPrize schools event The next round of Ingenious grant funding will open in late summer 2014, and is open to all applicants with creative ideas for public engagement with engineering. Ingenious has funded over 120 projects to date, providing opportunities for over 2,000 engineers to take part in thought provoking activities, to gain skills in communication and to promote the role of engineering at the centre of society. The Hero Lab project has beenfunded by the Academy as a follow-up to the successful Science of Superheroes show run by Matt Dickinson over three years, where the lecturer shared the science fact behind the science fiction of many well-known characters such as Spiderman, Wolverine and Iron Man. Now they have used their talents to give UCLan a Gotham City-style makeover and turned engineering lecturer Matt Dickinson into a superhero character as part of a national schools’ science competition.Ī team of engineers are also working on the project, providing online materials that children can access as part of their research into what existing technological and engineering knowledge can be applied to create the characters’ super powers.ĭr Jo Heaton-Marriott, Public Engagement Manager at UCLan, is coordinating the Hero Lab project and will also be included as a character in the comic book. Ingenious is a grant scheme for creative public engagement with engineering projects.Īndy Lanning and Anthony Williams have over the last 25 years illustrated and written the stories for Batman, Captain America, Superman, Iron Man and America, Superman, Iron Man and X-Men comics. Two comic book writers who have created some of Marvel and DC Comics’ world-famous characters have teamed up with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) for a superhero-inspired project funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Ingenious public engagement programme. However, the two platforms are distinct, and the ability to move characters between them is very limited.Joanna Heaton-Marriott and Matt Dickinson beside the comic book characters Dr Darkness and Mecha-man Game systems and content unlocked for Hybrid game systems is available equally on both platforms.
Hero lab online beta access license#
New Hero Lab users receive both access through the Online platform and a Classic license for use on the desktop.Įxisting Classic users can add Online access or continue using the desktop product. Hybrid game systems offer support for both the Online and Classic forms.
These game systems, and the content from various supplements for the game systems, are purchased as add-ons to the core product, unlocking the material permanently. Demo versions of each are available ( Online and Classic). Hero Lab Classic is a desktop product that runs locally on the computer, with iPad support for two games.
Hero Lab Online is a web-based product that provides access through the browser on nearly all modern devices.
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