This week’s poll: electric car charging infrastructure Is the government’s announcement of a £2.5m fund for installing electric car charging points on residential roads a welcome step? News Automotive
Collaborate to Innovate 2019 awards shortlist announced Meet the finalists for The Engineer’s annual celebration of innovation and collaboration News Awards
Biomass boiler lays foundation for carbon neutrality Danone is planning to cut carbon dioxide emissions at one of its plants in New Zealand by 20,000 tonnes per year, with the installation of a new biomass boiler News Energy & environment
Engineers must embed an ethical approach Does engineering need to do more to embed ethics at the heart of the profession? Dr Jim Baxter, an ethicist at the University of Leeds, thinks so. Opinion Policy & business
Funding futurist dreams in the face of investment reality How can promising technologies with pay-offs decades or centuries in the future reach fruition when investment demands short term returns? Stuart Nathan looks to the skies and inside atoms to explore the issu Opinion Policy & business
Opinion Civil & structural Spacecraft and spoons: how structural engineers ensure integrity of essential objects
