Corus, Europe’s second largest steelmaker, has announced that it will cut up to 2,500 UK jobs as part of a strategic review to reduce production in line with falling demand.
The skills shortage in engineering is widely recognised, and plugging the gap isn’t an overnight process, but plug it we must if we are to gain around 186,000 recruits to the engineering sector each...
Features editor We shouldn’t be so shy about praising our inventors, whose ingenuity changes and saves lives as well as contributing to the economy, as a nerve-racking trip to Paris demonstrated.
Employer led skills body Enginuity, formerly known as Semta, is on a mission to reshape the way that industry attracts and nurtures key skills. Jon Excell spoke to the organisation's CEO, Ann Watson.
As part of a £7.8m project to install a dehumidification system to protect the main cables from corroding on the Forth Road Bridge, contractors C. Spencer Ltd are applying Winn & Coales Denso Tape and...
General Electric this week made its biggest public commitment to environmental technology, announcing that it is to double its ‘green’ R&D spending by the end of the decade.
Features editor The achievements of the Rosetta mission, which culminates today with humanity’s first attempt to land a probe on a comet, are astonishing and a testiment to the power of engineering
Nanoscale 3D printing techniques, developed to build optical devices such as those found in quantum computing, could be used to test materials for the next generation of nuclear power plants.
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have taken their inspiration from the human body to develop a portable device able to rapidly detect trace levels of heavy metals in...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract for up to $34.5m (£22.5m) to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to test...
