As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.