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A professor at the University of Sussex has been given the job of making the UK a world-leader in sound shaping technology. Professor Sriram Subramanian has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) chair for the development of novel acoustic interfaces. This is one of a ten areas of development emerging technology being created by the RAEng, which is ...

A post-Brexit economy seems to depend on UK companies making a success of emerging technology

The Royal Academy of Engineering has welcomed the government’s industrial strategy white paper, Building a Britain fit for the future, because it takes inclusive approach to address the need for digital skills and focuses on the technologies for artificial intelligence and big data. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, writes: “Now is the time to ramp ...

Raspberry Pi has been named as one of this finalists for this year’s coveted MacRobert Award, the innovation prize awarded each year by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Raspberry Pi credit card-sized microcomputers is being used to inspire students to learn coding as well as becoming a IoT embedded systems development platform. It will compete for the gold medal ...

The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its own engineering manifesto as the political parties campaign for next month’s general election.

UK engineers want the government to take more “decisive action” to address the shortage of engineering skills in the workforce.

Government plans for new investment in infrastructure and R&D in the Autumn Statement, will be good for the engineering and technology sectors, says RAE.

UK engineering bodies are aiming at the Government with a detailed report about Brexit, called 'Engineering a future outside the EU: securing the best outcome for the UK'.

British microwave engineer Professor Peter Clarricoats is to receive the Sir Frank Whittle Medal, one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s highest accolades. Clarricoats, CBE FREng FRS, gets the Whittle Medal for influential achievements spanning more than half a century. According to the Academy, these achievements include: Research with Sir Charles Kao optical fibre technology – Kao got a Nobel prize ...

Edinburgh-based Artemis has won this year’s MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. It won it for its Digital Displacement digitally-controlled hydraulic power system for off-shore wind turbines. “The smart modular system has been designed to overcome the significant reliability issues associated with existing turbines,” said the Academy. “The Artemis system is a massive leap forward for hydraulically powered ...