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Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight Matthew Cossins, a Final Year MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student at the University of Nottingham. Achievement Matthew told ...

Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight James Arnold, a student at the University of Nottingham. Achievements James told us he has always been interested in electronics and ...

Faced with an empty driving seat, pedestrians trust certain visual prompts when deciding whether to cross in front of an autonomous car, according to the University of Nottingham, which has studied such behaviour on its own campus. The study used a fake autonomous car, with a concealed human driver, equipped with animated display panels on its front that pedestrians could ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding the manufacture of XCAM’s particle contamination monitor for space flight, which is described as a world’s first. The Northampton-based company designs and manufactures highly specialised custom and low-volume complex digital camera systems – providing bespoke imaging sensors – for challenging scientific applications, including space. The latest funding will enable it reach its final ...

Nottingham University’s Aerospace Unlocking Potential (UP) programme has pledged £110,000 in funding to three UK businesses working to improve sustainability in the aerospace sector. The three companies working to help tackle the effects of space debris or minimise the environmental impact of space operations are: Holscot Fluropolymers, which specialises in the use of fluoropolymers, Space Resource Lab, specialising in propulsion ...

The University of Nottingham has creates a business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems, claiming that it is the first UK institution to create an independent business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems. Nottingham Drive Specialist Services (NDSS) will provide “bespoke development, manufacturing and testing of electrical motors and drives to support ...

The University of Nottingham Racing Team picked up prizes at the Formula Student UK Competition, reports Caroline Hayes. Student design competition, Formula Student, brings student teams from engineering universities all around the world together to design, build and race an open-wheel, open-cockpit, go-kart- style car every year. The competition originated in the US (where it is known as Formula SAE, ...

The University of Nottingham is to investigate how sea mussels stick to wet and wave-hit rocks, aiming to use the knowledge to solve engineering problems. What is already known, is that they use collagen-rich sticky threads, ending in adhesive pads known as plaques. And that these plaques work on many different surfaces. The design principles could inspire new ways to ...

High-temperature batteries could one day power road vehicles, according to the University of Nottingham, which has worked with Chinese universities to take a step forward with molten salt ‘metal-air’ batteries. Having a battery running at 700-800°C might seem a little impractical. “This molten salt battery has multiple feasible application directions, and transport is one of these,” Nottingham professor of electro-chemistry George Chen ...

Engineers at the University of Nottingham design a PPE face shield with CE approval.