Balfour Beatty, the UK-based engineering and construction group, has announced that it will begin major roadway and structural infrastructure projects worth £300m in October 2009.

 BP's Mandy Hurt, VP of Upstream Resourcing, examines some of the factors influencing the STEM gender gap, and how they can be addressed. 

Machines could be taught to think like humans more efficiently with a new type of neural network made from memristors.

Engineers at The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) are exploring the use of rotary friction welding to help reduce materials wastage and production time.

To help integrate design and manufacturing data structures, a range of ‘middleware’ — sitting between the two extremes — is available. Charles Clarke reports.

BAE Systems has been awarded a four-year £127m contract by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to take forward the programme to develop a new generation of combat ships for the Royal Navy.