Inspiring young people to take up engineering
We need to inspire more young people to pursue a career in engineering. Tanya Weaver thinks that one way of…
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow…today
With 71 per cent of those surveyed by Ipsos MORI professing to know little or nothing about 3D printing, it’s…
UK schools to receive free 3D printers for attending London 3D Printshow
The London 3D Printshow will award a free desktop 3D printer to each attending school to this year’s event, with…
Shifting heavy loads
Al Dean and Tanya Weaver visit the UK headquarters of the world's third largest manufacturer of construction equipment where the…
SolidWorks 2014: Beta
SolidWorks has one of the largest active 3D CAD user communities out there, so there's always anticipation for each major…
Lego tops designers’ and engineers’ toy lists
Do the toys we play with as children inspire our future career choice? This is the question I was pondering…
Power Up 3.0 – a new smartphone-controlled paper airplane
If, like me, you’ve had unsatisfactory paper plane experiences fear not as there is a new gadget in production that…
Helping engineering take off
To increase the number of future engineers private sector foundations are taking matters Stephen Holmes finds the work of one…
Barbie: the enemy of engineering?
Is Barbie responsible for instilling gender stereotyping in children? As the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has spent the entire…
Ultimaker aims to bring 3D printing to UK schools
Hot on the heels of MakerBot’s announcement to get a 3D printer in every school in the US, Ultimaker GB…
