News

New Santa Cruz trail bike – 20 years in the making

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 5, 2013

The new Santa Cruz Bronson with its 150mm frame and 650b wheels (27.5 inches) is certainly a looker. From afar,…

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Manufacturing

Flight of the RoboBee: Robotic insects

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 13, 2013

In a lab at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a RoboBee achieves vertical takeoff, hovering and steering.…

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Collaborate

Inspiring young people to take up engineering

Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 25, 2013

We need to inspire more young people to pursue a career in engineering. Tanya Weaver thinks that one way of…

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News

A machine that filters sweat into clean drinking water

Posted by Tanya Weaver - July 25, 2013

UNICEF and a youth soccer tournament have collaborated to develop the sweat machine: a machine that extracts sweat from clothes,…

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News

“Engineering can boom”: James Dyson rails against focus on the ‘silicon sector’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2013

James Dyson’s Foundation is part of his own push to encourage engineering among young people James Dyson has spoken out…

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News

Dassault Systemes acquires Safe Technology: why it makes sense

Posted by Al Dean - September 5, 2013

Well, we’ve just done a motorcycle issue – and Harley is an fe-safe user News came out yesterday that Dassault…

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Comment

Embrace the pink!

Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 12, 2013

Tanya Weaver addresses the debate on DEVELOP3D’s bright pink July/August front cover and ultimately concludes that female engineers should embrace…

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Product Design

Let’s celebrate our designers and engineers!

Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 12, 2013

A wider audience needs to appreciate our successful designers and engineers, writes Stephen Holmes, even if it is only to…

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News

Horrendous car = not necessarily bad design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 7, 2014

Our favourite news piece today is about the design and manufacturing history behind the Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled vehicle, weighing…

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News

Modularity to master complexity: ModeFrontier event to tackle issues facing engineers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

Esteco has announced its tenth ModeFrontier International Users Meeting to be held in Trieste, Italy, on 12-13 May, 2014. The…

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