Caroline Hargrove

Caroline Hargrove
Alma mater

University of Cambridge

Queen's University
Scientific career
Institutions McLaren Applied Technologies
Doctoral advisor David Newland

Dr Caroline Hargrove FREng is Chief Technical Officer[1] at McLaren Applied Technologies and a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.

Early life and education

Hargrove is from Montreal.[2] She studied mathematics and mechanical engineering at Queen's University, Ontario, which she graduated in 1989.[3][4] She moved to the University of Cambridge for her postgraduate studies, earning a PhD under the supervision of David Newland in 1997.[5][4]

Career

After her postgraduate studies, Hargrove remained at the University of Cambridge as a Fellow.[6] She joined McLaren in 1997, where she worked in vehicle dynamics.[7][8] For ten years she was responsible for the McLaren F1 simulator.[6] She was one of the founders of McLaren Applied Technologies.[9] In 2013 Hargrove was appointed Technical Director at McLaren Applied Technologies.[10] Her job involves R&D strategy and IP development.[11] She champions the use of big data in motor racing.[12] Here she looks to translate the technology of McLaren F1 to medical services, developing analysis and support tools.[13][14][15] She works with Olympic athletes and the UK track cycling team.[3][7][16][17] She created a data-logger that mounts under the saddle to collect information of speed, power, tilt and torque, then send it to the coach.[2] Her team translated the 3D accelerometers from Formula One cars into sensors for human use, working with GlaxoSmithKline to monitor patient's response to drugs.[18][19]

In 2014 she appeared on BBC Radio 4, where she discussed how Britain became a world leader in Formula One cars.[20] In 2016 she announced the use of their simulator for testing domestic vehicles.[21] In 2016 she was named one of the Women's Engineering Society and The Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.[22]

Hargrove is an advocate for increasing the number of girls in engineering through visits to schools and on-site work experience.[23][24] She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017.[25][26] She was announced as one of the Top 50 Innovators in the World in 2017 by Codex.[27] She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "Interview: Mclaren Applied Technologies CTO Dr Caroline Hargrove". The Engineer. 15 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 "The Fast and the Serious" (PDF). Drake P Bennett. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. 1 2 "Life in the fast lane". www.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  4. 1 2 "Sports cars and a whole lot more: McLaren's just the job". The Telegraph. 2017-09-22. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  5. ↑ "Professors Julian Allwood and Richard Prager elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering | Department of Engineering". www.eng.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. 1 2 "McLaren top engineers return to Cambridge for C4IR Network launch". Cambridge Network. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  7. 1 2 Medeiros, João. "How McLaren uses F1 tech to reinvent global companies". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  8. ↑ "Caroline Hargrove - Acting CTO @ McLaren Applied Technologies | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  9. ↑ "King's College London - Inspirational Women". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  10. ↑ "Lessons for the IoT from 8 World Championships | IoT Forum | McLaren Technologies - Internet of Things Forum". Internet of Things Forum. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  11. ↑ "GREAT Global Investment Conference". www.events.trade.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  12. ↑ Business of Software Conference (2015-03-11). "Caroline Hargrove - Lessons from 8 World Championships - McLaren Appl…".
  13. ↑ Carney, Dan. "McLaren and medicine: An unlikely pairing". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  14. ↑ "Formula 1 Technology Is Being Used To Make Better Surgeons – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  15. ↑ "McLaren Applied Technologies". www.mclaren.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  16. ↑ Baldwin, Alan. "F1 rivalry hots up on ice". U.S. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  17. ↑ CNN, By Matt Majendie, for. "McLaren: From Formula One to a formula for gold - CNN". CNN. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  18. ↑ "Formula One Technology Used In Drug Trials". Sky News. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  19. ↑ "Why is McLaren Revving up Into Healthcare?". Design News. 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  20. ↑ "Fast and Furious, In Business - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  21. ↑ "McLaren Formula One development tool now at hand for the family car". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  22. ↑ ap507. "University of Leicester Professor among 'Top 50 Women in Engineering' — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  23. ↑ "Students to be given the opportunity to 'See Inside' McLaren at the 2013 McLaren Manufacturing Challenge grand final". www.automotivecouncil.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  24. ↑ "More women needed in engineering jobs, says McLaren Technical Director | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  25. ↑ "Robot and nano-drug experts among 53 new Royal Academy of Engineering fellows". www.imeche.org. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  26. 1 2 "Dr Caroline Hargrove FREng". Royal Academy of Engineering. 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  27. ↑ Codex (2017-10-26), Dr Caroline Hargrove, McLaren - What can Formula 1 teach business about data analytics?, retrieved 2018-04-27
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