The Department of Engineering Science Lubbock Lectures, University of Oxford
Lubbock Lectures
The Department's most prestigious showcase event which takes place each year - the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture.
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For information on the next Lubbock lecture, please see our main Events listing page.
Previous lectures
2010: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Professor David JC MacKay)
2009: Science, Engineering and Technological Challenges for the 21st Century (Professor John Beddington)
2008: On Being an Engineer (Lord Browne of Madingley)
2007: The Entrepreneurial Bug (Sir Martin Wood)
2006: The Semiconductor Industry: Making Business and Technology Innovation work (Warren East)
2005: Less Incrementalism and More Breakthroughs: Thoughts on avoiding the collision between sustainability and our response to climate change (Dr Robin Batterham)
2004: Engineering in the Information Age (Sir David Brown)
2003: Building a world-class company from Oxford Engineering Science: the PowderJect Story (Paul Drayson)
2002: In Pursuit of Creative Interaction: Synergistic Design from the Sydney Opera House to the London Millennium Bridge (Anthony J Fitzpatrick FREng)
2001: "New" Engineering - a portal for the future (John Robinson FREng)
2000: E-science and the Information Utility (Dr John Taylor)
1999: Advanced Power Systems (Philip Ruffles) a
1998: Future Management of the Water Environment (Professor James Dooge)
1997: Digital Broadcasting Overtakes Rocket Science (Dr John Forrest)
1996: A History of the Automobile Engine 1970-2014 (Dr Derek Crabb)
1995: Electricity - the Common Currency (Dr James Smith)