Over 50 children got hands-on at Sellafield Ltd’s Cleator Moor engineering centre learn about STEM during British Science Week. From Distington Community School and aged seven to 11, they constructed marshmallow and spaghetti towers, tried 3d printers and a drone simulator, and experimented with Lego robots and paper rockets. “It’s always a pleasure to see the kids interacting with our ...
CorPower Ocean has revealed the first 9m diameter hull for its 300kW C4 wave energy converter. The hull was built composite machinery specialist Autonational and composite tank specialist CPT Tankwell, in Portugal using a custom-built machine in an environmentally controlled work cell. Yes, it is that big “The C4 hull has been designed with a low-cost sandwich structure comprising of ...
RS Components has been running a mini-series on Team SeaQuest, a bunch of maker-engineers brought together to build a boat with a particular mission, followed on RS’s DesignSpark website. This episode sees the team and its prototypes at QinetiQ’s huge ocean simulator for scale model boats in Hampshire. This fascinating facility has a tank 121m long, 61m wide and 5.5m deep ...
Engineer Dr Carol Marsh received an OBE in the Queen’s 2020 birthday honours for services to diversity and inclusion, and is using the platform to further encourage girls and women across the UK to consider engineering careers. “Engineering isn’t just a job, it is a vocation,” said Marsh. “When you’re an engineer, you’re thinking about it all the time. If ...
The Women’s Engineering Society has announced the winners of its awards - The 2020 Top 50 Women In Engineering - which this year had a theme of sustainability.
Three new centres to train the next generation of engineers could be built on Hereford’s Enterprise Zone after the Marches LEP agreed a £5.66 million funding package for the city’s proposed new university. The decision follows a submission of a business case to the LEP from the New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMiTE) supporting the development of new ...
So, I had a rough idea how ball bearigs were made and much of it was wrong so, a quick hunt around the web and this rather good video on the making of steel balls emerged. Amazing – those great big machines make things to an accuracy of 100nm. Isn’t engineering wonderful.
Greenpower Educational Trust is an electric car racing scheme developed to encourage STEM learning in schools. Rolls-Royce teamed up with March CE Primary School to help with its ‘Formula Goblin’ class racer at the ‘Gathering of the Goblins’ – the car firm and school are based close together in Sussex. “We have helped March CE Primary School to design and build ...
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for immediate action to ensure enough young people study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level...
US researchers have converted viruses into a nanowatt piezoelectric power source. The M13 virus is basically a single strand of DNA 880nm long and 6.6nm in diameter, with a coat of 2,700 charged proteins, "and large numbers of...
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