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Dr Lucy Rogers MBE FREng

Engineer
Author
Speaker

Developing the Extreme Environments Engineering Hub (ExEEH)

About

Dr Lucy Rogers MBE FREng is an engineer, author and speaker working across inventive engineering, extreme environments and public communication.

Her work spans practical engineering, advisory roles, writing, talks and media that make complex ideas accessible to broad audiences.

She is currently developing the Extreme Environments Engineering Hub (ExEEH), an early-stage initiative focused on engineering in environments where pressure, temperature, isolation and logistics define what is possible — from Antarctica and the deep ocean to space technologies.

ExEEH explores how technologies developed for extreme environments can be translated into real-world applications through collaboration and practical development.

→ Explore ExEEH

Featured Work

writing

Lucy is the author of books on engineering and the natural world, including It’s ONLY Rocket Science and Up – A Scientist’s Guide to the Magic Above Us. Her work combines technical insight with storytelling to make complex ideas accessible, engaging and relevant to broad audiences.

Projects & Prototypes

Lucy develops applied engineering projects, prototype systems and practical demonstrations that test ideas under real-world constraints. This work explores inventive approaches to engineering challenges, including those shaped by extreme environments, logistics and operational limits.

Speaking

She specialises in explaining science and engineering clearly for both technical and non-specialist audiences, from industry leaders to public events, making complex ideas understandable without oversimplifying them.

latest highlights

Javascript/NodeRED project

Security of IoT Devices

PCB Design 2

Pi Talk

Grove Smart Plant Kit

NFC Tags

Get in Touch

For collaborations, speaking enquiries or projects, please get in touch.

Lucy was the keynote speaker at the International Women’s Day Conference at the University of Chester. Lucy’s talk about her career in Science and Engineering was totally inspiring. Students and members of the public at Lucy’s evening talk, (including myself), went away with a feeling of renewed confidence in their own abilities

Angela Lupton
Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Chester

At Blackgang Chine our animatronic dinosaurs are great fun. Lucy brought in an amazing team who showed us how to use off the shelf parts and free software. We can now fix things immediately and change what the dinosaurs do whenever we want. This has saved us time and reduced our costs. It has also given our technical teams a much greater sense of ownership and therefore much greater job satisfaction.

Alexander Dabell
CEO Vectis Ventures and owner of Blackgang Chine.

Live coding demos are risky – but Dr Lucy Rogers did an excellent and entertaining job of taking us through the stages of “Hello World” to “Tweet responding dinosaur” using Node-RED. She shared her enthusiasm for using fun and creative ways to solve problems. Although the audience were developers, Lucy showed that the simplicity and ease of the software she used could be embraced by everyone. I believe many were inspired to try it.

Chris Frei
Organiser, Topconf, Linz