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Global contenders chase £1m prize in the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 3, 2014

The Queen, gawd bless ‘er, loves her Corgis – a rare breed of small, hardworking, occasionally nippy little buggers, with…

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Parents are urged to encourage their daughters into engineering

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 5, 2014

Abigail Hutty is a spacecraft structures engineer at Astrium working on the ExoMars Rover Mission In a book I’m currently…

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Barbie: the enemy of engineering?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 7, 2014

Is Barbie responsible for instilling gender stereotyping in children? As the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has spent the entire…

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Product Design

Brick by brick

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 19, 2014

In the search for increasing numbers of future engineers, Stephen Holmes finds how a charity installing LEGO in schools might…

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Not just an engineer, but a Marks & Spencer engineer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 24, 2014

Structural engineer Roma Agrawal forms part of M&S’s ‘Leading Ladies’ line-up British high street staple Marks & Spencer has today…

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Product Design

Planes

Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 24, 2014

This month Tanya Weaver takes a look at some of the latest innovations that are currently or will soon be…

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Product Design

Brother to brother

Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 29, 2014

Mcor Technologies invented the world's only current paper-based 3D printer. Tanya Weaver reports on how the company's co-founders, two Irish…

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Product Design

Into the fold

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 12, 2014

Using robots to bend, shape and fold sheet metal is bringing freedom to design. Stephen Holmes visits Robofold and becomes…

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Coffee machine engineering contest – take on the Italians!

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 19, 2014

Last week we were lucky enough to attend Esteco’s UM14 event for ModeFrontier users in Trieste, Italy, where we found…

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#IAmAnEngineer selfies for National Women in Engineering Day

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 16, 2014

Ok now commences a week of #IAmAnEngineer selfies and tell us what you're doing! I'm off to speak at a…

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