Press Releases

• Engineers in Business Award becomes part of the UK’s Leading Entrepreneurship Competition

  Tuesday, 2 May 2017

  First prize winner, Emma Hartley of Pulse AED is presented with her prize by EIBF President, David Falzani. Engineers in Business Fellowship is the latest organisation to join the University of Nottingham's Ingenuity Business competition. The Engineers in Business (EIB) competition run with...

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• Business Minded Engineers win £240,000 of MBA Scholarships

  Monday, 30 January 2017
  

  Eight young engineers who demonstrated leadership skills and the drive to reach senior management level early in their careers have been awarded a Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) scholarship to study for an MBA degree. Each engineer receives £30,000, bringing this year’s scholarship...

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• SMFs Donate £2m to Help Young Engineers into the Boardroom

  Friday, 11 November 2016
  

  An initial £2 million has been donated by Sainsbury Management Fellows to help professional young engineers become entrepreneurs and business leadership in blue-chip companies. Twenty-eight years ago Lord Sainsbury of Turville had the vision of getting  more professional engineers onto UK...

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• Lord Sainsbury Hosts ‘Thank You’ Dinner for SMF Donors

  Tuesday, 18 October 2016
  

  Lord Sainsbury with guests at the EIBF Donors’ Dinner:  Standing (L-R) Will Averdieck, David Falzani, James Raby, Lord Sainsbury, Ean Lewin, Nigel Wallbridge, Adam Bazire.   Seated(L-R) Mike Gansser-Potts, Simon Bonini, Imoni Akpofure, David Weston, William Burton, Henning von...

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• Entrepreneur & Business Competition Gives Engineers More Business Skills

  Monday, 3 October 2016
  

  Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) is running the Engineers in Business Competition for the third year, giving business and engineering students the opportunity to enter the ideas they create for their Entrepreneurship & Business (E&B) studies into the competition. Sponsored by...

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• Companies Cling to the Hard Hat to Promote Engineers – Engineering Students not Impressed

  Monday, 15 August 2016
  

  Sainsbury Management Fellows' 2016 Hard Hat Index reveals the resilience of the hard hat as the symbol of engineering. Despite leading figures in the engineering community and engineering students calling for the hard hat to be banned from promotional and educational material, it remains dominant,...

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• Plants do talk – PhytlSigns lets us listen in

  Thursday, 30 June 2016

  SMF Nigel Wallbridge launches Kickstarter campaign for new technology that lets plants communicate with you – and the possibilities are far reaching PhytlSigns – an innovative and unique piece of wearable tech for plants, is a plant monitor unlike any other – because it specifically...

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• £270K SMF Scholarships Awarded to Engineers for MBA Study

  Wednesday, 11 May 2016
  

  Aerospace design specialist Sinead O’Sullivan is one of nine young engineers to share £270,000 worth of Sainsbury Management Fellows scholarships to study for an MBA at a leading business school. The Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) scheme enables awardees to add business skills to their...

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• FIRE1 Closes Series B Financing and Appoints SMF Conor Hanley as CEO

  Tuesday, 12 April 2016
  

  DUBLIN, Ireland, April 12, 2016 – Foundry Innovation & Research 1, Ltd. (“FIRE1”) today announced it has closed its Series B financing, appointed Conor Hanley as President and CEO, and added other new senior leaders to its team including John Britton, Vice President of Commercial...

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• Engineers in Business Awards

  Tuesday, 8 March 2016

  Engineers in Business Awards made for New Polo Mallet Head, Magic Bin and Low-Cost Bottled Water for Poor Communities The winning team showing off their new mallet head prototype. Nottingham University Business School’s Engineers in Business competition, which is sponsored and judged by...

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