The Engineer
19 March 2012
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Layers of manufacturing
26 Apr 2012
The Warwick Manufacturing Group is set to use a bespoke machine for investigating methods of creating lightweight components. Jason Ford reports
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This week in 1899
27 Mar 2012
Previous generation has some modern insight: The building of the Bankside power station put into focus how a new infrastructure should be established
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Making space for an innovation hothouse
21 Mar 2012
Space exploration may seem like a frivolous use of resources in a time of economic austerity, but it’s a valuable lever to accelerate truly innovative technologies that inevitably find uses in wider society.
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Bosch's Peter Fouquet on changing young people's perceptions of engineering
20 Mar 2012
Results from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 2010-11 demonstrate that the number of engineering students has continued to rise year on year with 92,580 full-time undergraduates enrolled on engineering courses in 2010, a three per cent increase from 2009-10.
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Opportunities in engineering consultancies
19 Mar 2012
Large engineering consultancy firms offer the opportunity to work across a variety of sectors.
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Non-industrial applications of machine vision systems
19 Mar 2012
Modern imaging technologies are finding use in non-industrial applications ranging from road inspection to tomb exploration.
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Richard Lugg - Aviation entrepreneur
19 Mar 2012
Richard Lugg claims his aircraft design can prevent sonic boom and cut emissions by 80-90 per cent. Stephen Harris reports
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Europe's biggest wireless charging trial begins in London
19 Mar 2012
Technology for the wireless charging of electric vehicles is due to be trialled in East London’s ‘Tech City’.
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Confined space: the future of collaborative planetary exploration
19 Mar 2012
One of science’s most engaging areas, planetary exploration, has been hit hard by the financial crisis.
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Study says technologies could save on fuel for train operators
14 Mar 2012
Train operators could save around £56m a year on diesel fuel, alongside associated emissions reductions, by implementing proven technologies on their existing passenger and freight units.
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Full body simulations to predict patients' response to treatment
14 Mar 2012
Doctors could one day predict how treatments will affect a patient’s entire body using personalised computer models.
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External airbag could protect pedestrians and cyclists
14 Mar 2012
Volvo has developed an external airbag that could protect pedestrians and cyclists in the event of a collision.
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Team looks for fibre-optic cables to transmit more info
12 Mar 2012
Scientists in London are attempting to increase the amount of information that can be transmitted in fibre-optic cables.
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Researchers improve efficiency of energy harvesters
12 Mar 2012
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have found they can make energy harvesters more efficient by eliminating a key material.
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Car makers team up with SMEs to produce low-carbon vehicles
9 Mar 2012
Large vehicle manufacturers are mentoring smaller supply companies as part of a project to develop a low-carbon-vehicle supply chain in the UK.
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Hybrid periscope could aid drivers of armoured vehicles
9 Mar 2012
A British firm has developed a hybrid periscope for armoured land vehicles that incorporates optical and digital image sources.
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Blind athletes help students to create a wearable coaching aid
8 Mar 2012
Postgraduate engineering students are working with blind athletes to design a wearable coaching aid that gives haptic feedback when certain moves are correctly executed.
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Cambridge-based company launches PV greenhouse
7 Mar 2012
Cambridge-based Polysolar has launched a semi-transparent photovoltaic (PV) greenhouse, with view to rolling out other integrated PV building structures.
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Research could increase the life of artificial joint implants
5 Mar 2012
New research by material scientists in Ireland is hoped to increase the life of artificial joint implants.
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Service set to provide online space weather forecasts
5 Mar 2012
Commercial and independent satellite operators will soon have access to online space weather forecasts based on technology developed by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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Scientists use artificial womb for research into embryos
5 Mar 2012
Scientists at Nottingham University have developed an artificial womb to aid research into how early embryos develop.
