Tanya Weaver, Author at DEVELOP3D

Solar Impulse 2 embarks on epic global flight with help from Dassault Systèmes

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 9, 2015

The Solar Impulse 2 airplane was designed using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform The first attempt to fly around the world in a plane that is powered only by solar energy…

Siemens FEA tools helped create the extremely lightweight Solar Impulse 2 plane

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 16, 2015

Femap with NX Nastran is being used to optimise and verify the structure of first plane to circumnavigate the earth using solar power alone Last week we published a blog…

Pyrex turns to Cambridge Design Partnership for a centenary facelift of its glass ovenware

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 21, 2015

The design of Pyrex’s new ‘Optimum’ range was led by insights gained during consumer research. One of these insights centred on a reluctance to take the Pyrex from oven to…

Meet OLO – a smartphone powered 3D printer

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 22, 2016

With OLO users will be able to print 3D objects directly from their smartphones for $99 Seems too good to be a true – a 3D printer that is portable…

Women in engineering

Posted by Tanya Weaver - July 29, 2016

Tanya Weaver caught up with a few of the thousands of British women working in engineering to discover what they enjoy about their jobs and how we can go about…

The great outdoors

Posted by Tanya Weaver - August 2, 2016

With summer holidays around the corner, Tanya Weaver scouts out the latest products for those camping adventures

Look inside

Posted by Tanya Weaver - September 6, 2016

Successful collaboration between a product design consultancy and a university leads to the development of an innovative surgical instrument. Tanya Weaver reports

High achievers recognised in the IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 2, 2016

The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year award went to Jenni Sidey, a lecturer in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge Yesterday evening the The Institution…

A flat-pack, emergency shelter for refugees is named Beazley Design of the Year 2016

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 27, 2017

The Better Shelter is a temporary 17.5 m2 light weight, modular emergency shelter that resembles a house with semi-hard walls, four windows and a high ceiling At an awards ceremony…

Allo, allo – Philippe Starck imagines a new generation of smartphone

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 30, 2017

Alo features no screen and instead relies on holograms, voice control and haptic feedback Famed French designer Philippe Starck is known for being a bit radical and ‘out there’ with…