University Electronics

Edinburgh University is attempting to design and build a version of the Hyperloop futuristic transportation system.

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 ...

NI is working with the wireless research centre within New York University Tandon School of Engineering to fund the development of mmWave communications, channel measurement and channel emulation research for 5G communications. NI has donated almost $1m (£806,000) to the NYU’s wireless group. This will include equipping labs with software defined radio hardware and software. Millimetre-wave (mmWave) frequencies have now ...

A new EU-funded project to help businesses meet the challenge posed by data has launched today with the University of Southampton’s electronics department playing a lead role.

RS Components now has 100,000 users in schools and colleges of its free-for-download DesignSpark PCB design tool via its educational network licence. In the last five years 100,000 users from more than 200 places of education across the globe, including schools, academies, colleges and universities, have been using the PCB tool. Before the launch of the licence, the DesignSpark PCB tool needed to be ...

Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK. This comes as Edinburgh’s Centre for Robotics hosts the European Robotics Forum (22-24 March). Earlier this month the Prime Minister welcomed Sir James Dyson’s plans to build a 500 acre campus in Wiltshire to pursue R&D into robotics ...

A report from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee has highlighted the need for the UK to improve its performance in the commercialisation of university research. Felicity Burch, CBI head of digital and innovation, agrees and she believes that the UK lags behind competitors on R&D spending. Burch believes the private sector and Government both have a major role to play in addressing this ...

To mark International Women’s Day, the IET launches the call for entries for its 2017 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards, which celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.

As part of its research into GaN transistor power supplies, the University of Bristol has created the fastest active gate driver reported so far

An imaginative smart textiles design workshop has shown that involvement in new technologies can benefit people with mental health issues, writes Richard Wilson A research project involving technology product design using smart textiles has been used to help people with mental health conditions by lowering levels of anxiety. Dr Sarah Kettley, a reader in product design at Nottingham Trent University, ...