The Engineer
8 June 2001
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A fund of all knowledge
14 Jun 2001
One problem the new education secretary will need to tackle urgently is funding for engineering training. New arrangements for the over-16s have caused controversy among training providers, and re-opened the debate over the balance of funding between those who leave school at 16 and those who leave after A-levels.
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An e-wake up call for British manufacturing
14 Jun 2001
Don't make the mistake of believing that e-business capabilities are optional - they are mandatory. As the global village turns into the global marketplace, British manufacturers must turn from 'bricks and mortar' to 'clicks and mortar' if they are to remain competitive. So Says Sean Toomes, international marketing director of Norgren.
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Bush threatens steel trade war
14 Jun 2001
European steel industry leaders have accused George Bush of holding a gun to their heads to force them to reduce capacity.
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Culture shock
14 Jun 2001
Before Sam Redmond Lyon became a designer at PDD her engineering experience had been almost entirely within large companies. Here is her story...
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Doing a deal on drives
14 Jun 2001
Variable speed drives have proliferated to provide the design engineer a bewildering choice of alternatives, not only of subtle variants in the technology but also in suppliers.
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EU work legislation row greets DTI
14 Jun 2001
The DTI has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over EU rules requiring firms to consult staff on major decisions.
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Fuseless protection
14 Jun 2001
Moeller Electric's PKZM0 fuseless motor protection circuit breakers combine the function of isolation, motor switching, short circuit and overload protection in a single unit.
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IT marks road to profit for Ford
14 Jun 2001
Effective use of IT is the key if the automotive industry wants to make higher profits at a time of falling car prices, says Ford Britain chairman Ian McAllister.
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Mad dogs and engineers...
14 Jun 2001
According to that old Noel Coward ditty, only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. He never mentioned solar-powered cars...
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MoD sets sights on 'over horizon' radar for Navy
14 Jun 2001
The Royal Navy's future aircraft carriers could be equipped with a new surveillance radar capable of seeing beyond the vessels' horizon.
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New car runs on rubbish
14 Jun 2001
At a height of 97cm, the Advantage Rone is the lowest car in the world. It is also, claims its Swiss designer, the first sports car to run on kitchen and garden waste.
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Oil giant shells out $1bn on renewable energy
14 Jun 2001
Oil giant Shell will invest between $500m and $1bn in renewable energy technologies over the next five years, the company told an analysts' briefing in London yesterday.
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Pneumatics nip at electricity's heels
14 Jun 2001
Festo has deployed advanced pneumatics and closed-loop control in the core of its new robotic handling system, the Kinematic Robot.
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Removing windscreens in a flash
14 Jun 2001
UK car Repair specialist Belron International has developed a flash-gun which allows car windscreens to be removed safely and efficiently.
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Seeing is believing
14 Jun 2001
Whatever you're designing, chances are you're using displays to either design it or integrate into it.
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Strong arm service from Crane
14 Jun 2001
Crane Services faced a number of challenges when asked to design a gantry system with a gripper mechanism for transporting blocks of polystyrene panels.
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Microsoft on TV
8 Jun 2001
At this week's National Cable Television Association's Cable 2000 show, Microsoft announced that more than 100 companies are developing television solutions based on its Microsoft TV Platform.
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Wagon rolls out alloy car body plan
14 Jun 2001
Automotive supplier Wagon is set to capitalise on an expected surge in the use of aluminium in car bodies with a new UK factory designed to meet increased demand.
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Doom and gloom in UK pay and manufacturing says EEF
13 Jun 2001
Engineering pay settlements have fallen sharply, to the lowest level for nearly 12 months, according to the latest figures from the EEF.
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Java gets into the handset
8 Jun 2001
Japanese phone vendors have collectively deployed Sun Microsystems' Java technology in more than 3 million J2ME-enabled wireless handsets.
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Blackfin DSP debuts
13 Jun 2001
Analog Devices (ADI) has revealed its new Blackfin family of 16-bit digital signal processors (DSPs) that integrate the Micro Signal Architecture jointly developed with Intel Corporation.
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Angels with watch faces
8 Jun 2001
If you have ever worried about friends or relatives left alone at home - then worry no longer.
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Weaving electronic webs
14 Jun 2001
Why use complicated processing techniques to manufacture your display screens when you can simply weave them? This is the approach taken by R&D company Visson, which has just received $5.5 million of investment from Philips to develop a display screen that looks, feels and is manufactured like cloth.
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High-strength materials for power turbines
13 Jun 2001
The DOE has selected two proposals from Texas A&M and the University of Pittsburgh to study ways to improve the materials in a key section of future power plants - the turbine.
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VME memory in a flash
12 Jun 2001
Dy 4 Systems has recently released the SVME/DMV-570, a flash non-volatile mass memory module. The SVME/DMV-570 is specifically designed for harsh and rugged applications where large amounts of non-volatile, mass memory are required to store extensive databases such as theatre area maps or video/satellite imagery.
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Global semiconductor market to rebound in 2002
13 Jun 2001
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) projects an industry-wide recovery in the second half of this year that will spur growth of 20.5% in 2002 and 25% in 2003.
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UK businesses demand early decision on Euro
14 Jun 2001
Pro-Euro business leaders are split over the rate at which the UK should join the single currency, as they step up pressure on the government to make an early decision on entry.
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Why auto sector must lead drive to eurozone
14 Jun 2001
If you want to keep the pound don't expect to be able to drive a car made in the UK.
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InP technology delivers 7 GHz synthesizer
12 Jun 2001
TRW claims to have developed the world's fastest direct digital frequency synthesizer using indium phosphide (InP).
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Get to the future first!
13 Jun 2001
Trade & Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt today launched a major review of the UK Government's cash support for business.
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New Ideas
12 Jun 2001
SDRC has launched I-DEAS 8m3, an enhancement to its I-DEAS mechanical design automation software.
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Super-clear tape is the 'new CD'
14 Jun 2001
Could this humble roll of tape could become the successor of the CD-ROM? An engineer at the University of Mannheim, Steffen Noethe, thinks it might be.
