Automotive & Transport
Pigeon Air Patrol, a project stemming from an idea put forward to a Twitter competition, allows Twitter users to track pollution levels thanks to sensors strapped to ten pigeons flying around London.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Energy & EnvironmentOpportunities
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has opened an Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) at Warwick University, a move which will further research into battery cell technology.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
The Institution of Civil Engineers have opened the nominations for their annual awards, which are granted for outstanding contributions to civil engineering.
Careers Civil, Structural
Energy & Environment
A team from the American Chemical Society have developed self-propelled gold and platinum nanomotors which can locate and repair miniscule scratches, thus allowing electronic systems to repair themselves.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Data from the European Patent Office has shown that more than 5,000 patents were filed in the UK in 2015, an increase of 5.7% from the previous year.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Manufacturing
Ford is equipping its self-driving cars with LiDAR sensors, laser scanners which allow cars to create high resolution 3D maps of their surroundings.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Electronics & Communications
Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program has defeated the world champion of Go, a complex Chinese board game.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Aerospace, Defence & MarineBreakthroughs
Using an unmanned aerial vehicle supplied by French company Xamen Technologies, Maersk Tankers have for the first time successfully delivered a drone-supplied parcel to a vessel at sea.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Automotive & Transport
A team at Oxford University are developing a tracking system called Hyperion, which could impact upon disaster relief missions by allowing drones to transmit high quality images back to a base station on the ground.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Automotive & Transport
A stretch of the M6 near Carlisle could soon be a test route for tight convoys of driverless lorries, with Chancellor George Osborne expected to announce funding for the trials in next week’s Budget.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Health
A £6 million floating solar array is to open in London this month, and is expected to generate 5.8 million kilowatt hours a year.
Careers Biomedical
Electronics & Communications
A team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a bionic finger which has been surgically connected to the nerves of a man who had his lower arm amputated, allowing him to regain his sense of texture.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
A survey by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and released on International Woman’s Day has shown that 78% of the British public think engineering is a good career choice for…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
Three Northern Ireland women, including two who are mature students and single mothers, have earned QUEST Technician scholarships to pursue their studies in civil engineering.
Careers Civil, Structural
Space
The University of Portsmouth will host a new centre for excellence focusing on satellite data, which is to be funded by Satellite Applications Catapult and the UK Space Agency.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Health
Researchers at Salford University have begun a €5 million project to develop perovskite photovoltaic cells, a novel material choice which could lead to highly efficient solar power generation accompanied by low manufacturing costs.
Careers Biomedical
Manufacturing
Augmented reality is beginning to revolutionise the area of aircraft manufacturing. The manufacturers of the Airbus A350 have begun using augmented reality software on handheld tablets, which can be used…
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Opportunities
The SuperKEKB particle accelerator, which began development in Japan in 2010 and has been seen as a rival to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, has circulated its first particles around its underground ‘track’ at close to the speed of light.
Automotive & Transport
Connected cars are increasingly entering mainstream markets, as shown by Ford’s latest model of its Kuga SUV, which has been launched at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Energy & Environment
A team from MIT have developed a solar cell one-fiftieth of the thickness of a human hair, which is so light that it can be placed on a bubble of soap without bursting it.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Space
NASA have announced designs for a supersonic ‘X-plane’, as part of an initiative seeking to build jets which are faster, quieter and more efficient.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic