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Sunday drivers: Kids blitzing around Goodwood at over 30mph in self-made machines

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 15, 2012

The 75 car start of this year’s Formula 24 Greenpower Final Yesterday we travelled down to Goodwood motor circuit, a…

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Life in the fast lane

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 8, 2013

There is a shortage of engineers in the UK as young people often don't feel inspired to follow a career…

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Inspiration: IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards shortlist

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 29, 2014

This year’s YWE shortlist: (L-R) Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, Jessica Bestwick, Holly Driver, Nicola Combe, Laurie-Ann Marshall, Lucy Ackland, Naomi Mitchison, Hannah…

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IET appoints first female president

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 30, 2014

Naomi Climer, president of Sony Media Cloud Services will become IET President on 1 October 2015 The Institution of Engineering…

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Q&A with Renishaw engineer shortlisted for Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

Posted by Tanya Weaver - October 31, 2014

Lucy Ackland (26) is a project manager in Renishaw’s Additive Manufacturing Products Division The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)…

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“Engineers are ‘rocks stars’ – without them we’d still be living in

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 16, 2016

“We seem to have grown more reticent about being evangelists for science and engineering” – Prof Brian Cox backs the…

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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…

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#9PercentIsNotEnough

Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 1, 2017

Some inspiring takeaways from the conference at Birmingham offices of the Institution of Engineering and Technology A few of the…

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Get your camera out for a new competition that wants to quash fusty engineering stereotypes

Posted by Tanya Weaver - August 4, 2017

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a new photography competition, which aims to challenge misconceptions of engineering…