Danaher Motion, the specialist in drive and controltechnology, has expanded its Servostar range withthe S700 digital servo amplifier which not only has aperformance range up to 24A but features...
A European capsule, designed to travel at speeds of more than 600mph per hour through reduced-pressure tubes, has taken second place in an international competition launched by SpaceX.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices.
A Penn State fuel scientist has created a high quality jet fuel derived from at least 50 per cent bituminous coal and successfully used it to power a helicopter jet engine.
Scientists in the Netherlands have developed a nanoscale LED that they claim could be used to create highly efficient optical interconnects for speeding the flow of data between microchips.
Although designed by his father, it was the son Washington Roebling who was the chief engineer that saw through to its conclusion the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Written by Nick Smith.
Kelvin Connect, a Glasgow University spin-out company that specialises in mobile data-capture systems, has been sold to the UK emergency services’ communications provider Airwave Solutions for an...
ViewpointThe UK’s smaller companies can offer fresh insights into low-carbon technologies, but often struggle to commercialise their ideas. Shell’s Graham van’t Hoff explains how the company’s...
Design by committee can be a frustrating process, but taking the time to educate non-specialist colleagues about the engineering mindset can help ease the pain, writes our anonymous blogger.
Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been awarded grants to scale up a method for achieving high recovery rates in desalination systems that work by reverse osmosis.
