Engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships in the north east have increased by 70 per cent over the past three years, according to Semta.
A thin strip that dissolves in the mouth like a popular breath-freshener could someday provide life-saving rotavirus vaccine to infants.
Westinghouse Electric Company announced recently that it has been awarded a contract to provide Primary Side Chemistry Monitoring Systems for the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria.
Siemens Power Generation has received a €100m order from RWE Innogy to supply thirty-three 2.3MW wind turbines for wind farms it is building in Poland.
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group has received an order to modernise a paper machine for Goricane, tovarna papirja Medvode, a company in Slovenia.
Generating energy from upper atmospheric winds could be possible according to feasibility studies from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia.
Capturing CO2 from power stations and storing it deep underground carries no significant threat to human health, a study has shown.
A new blood-glucose monitor being developed in Wales will send a text alert to emergency personnel when a patient is in danger of hypoglycaemia attack.
With the spectre of Copenhagen looming ever closer, more and more engineers will find themselves with a new set of goals to reach for.
A NASA experiment that could ‘transform’ how spacecraft communicate has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time.
