Super six recognised with honours

Imperial academics received a record haul of honours from a prestigious engineering academy this month. The Royal Academy of Engineering announced the election of 60 new Fellows at its annual general meeting on 22 July. The Fellows include some of the UK's most accomplished engineers from academia and business. This now takes the number of Imperial Fellows to 83. Among this year's cohort were Professors Jeff Magee, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial; Molly Stevens, Departments of Materials and Bioengineering and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering; Robin Grimes, Department of Materials; Jianguo Lin, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Washington Ochieng, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Stratos Pistikopoulos, Department of Chemical Engineering. Sir Keith O'Nions, President & Rector of Imperial, said: "Our Faculty of Engineering is a world beater in terms of the quality, depth and breadth of research and teaching being carried out. It is absolutely fantastic news that such a large group of Imperial academics have been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering.