STEM Education

Powered and operated through a USB Type-C cable, Analog Discovery 3 is a 9MHz (or 30MHz) 125Msample/s 14bit oscilloscope, a logic analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator and more from Digilent. “Analog Discovery 2, AD3’s predecessor, has been used as a learning tool in hundreds of universities, and as a flexible benchtop tool by thousands of professional engineering companies and organisations ...

An Imperial College prototype quantum accelerometer has been tested on a Royal Navy ship. The accelerometer uses ultra-cold atoms, whose wave-like properties allow them to be measured accurately by lasers as they move under acceleration. Quantum accelerometers and gyros are of enormous interest for inertial navigation systems as the quantum nature of the parameters measured have the potential to offer ...

Stewart Edmondson, CEO at UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), shares his experience of supporting more than 750 undergraduates through the UKESF Scholarship Scheme. He considers how employers can de-risk their graduate recruitment process… Ash Madni, in his recent Viewpoint piece in Electronics Weekly (26 April 2023 edition), provided interview tips for graduate engineers. He said, “after three or four years ...

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) has welcomed the publication of the Government’s semiconductor strategy, but is highlighting that a chronic skills shortage threatens the industry’s ability to compete on a global stage. The organisation – an educational charity established in 2010 – is campaigning for the Government to recognise the need for a much greater focus on Electronics and ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation, BBC Education and web domain name registry Nominet are to offer 30 credit card sized micro:bit educational computers to every primary school in the UK – potentially close to 700,000 devices. The project, called ‘BBC micro:bit – the next gen’, builds on research by the Foundation and Nominet last year which found “that teachers feel overwhelmingly unprepared ...

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers. The Letchworth-based electronic design consultancy selected Jemima Hewitt, of St Francis’ College, as the winner. She was chosen out of hundreds of ...

As well as partnering with the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) for the Girls Into Electronics 2023 initiative, Apple has been holding its Electronic Engineering Academy, a two-day event for young women between the ages of 16-18. The open days – which took place at the company’s new UK HQ at Battersea Power Station – provided attendees with a unique ...

The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has outlined a five-year vision, and also unveiled its ‘Employment Pledge’. An initial group of six employer partners – ABT Products, ETL Systems, Kirintec, REHAU, TRP Sealing Systems and Welsh Water – have pledged 15 job offers to NMITE students, on a pay scale starting at £30,000 per annum. These will ...

The growing shortages and demands for skilled workers are becoming a greater problem globally, says YC Wang. He proposes education is the key to engage and encourage students from a young age. Factoring in the onslaught of the ‘baby boomer’ generation leaving the workforce, and demand for newer, faster, better technology increasing more quickly every year, the need for skilled ...

A passion for software development led to career opportunities in Australia and the Philippines and, most recently, the UK for Mary-Anne Legaspi. She tells Caroline Hayes about her career path. Navigating a route towards a satisfying job typically starts with an interest in an area and building from there. Mary-Anne Legaspi says her passion for software development was nurtured while ...