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Luxury hotel to cruise in the sky 31/01/2008
French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has come up with the idea of a vast, whale shaped airship that would function as a luxury hotel, which he is said to be developing with ONERA – the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherche Aérospatiale
Active steering corners with precision 30/01/2008
Advances in all-wheel steering for heavy good vehicles will reduce the risk of rollovers
Composites can be made self healing 30/01/2008
A study just completed by Qinetiq, funded by the European Space Agency has come to the conclusion that it is possible to make composite structures that can repair themselves, but it is not going to be quite as simple as was first thought
Design consultancy uses SolidWorks to develop new spectrometer 30/01/2008
Cambridge based consultancy Creactive Design has successfully used SolidWorks in its development of a new spectrometer, the Thermo Fisher Scientific iCAP 6000
Engineering sector ‘over-confident’ in coping with change 30/01/2008
Companies have ‘misplaced confidence’ in their own abilities, says survey
Help at hand for stroke sufferers 30/01/2008
Accelerometers are at the heart of a medical implant that improves mobility for stroke sufferers
£140m to boost STEM education in England 25/01/2008
In a move to boost interest in science and technology, the Government wants school science and technology lessons to be more exciting. The strategy is being backed by £140million of funding, which will provide for retraining existing teachers, as well as recruiting specialists.
 
Survey reveals employment boost in design 24/01/2008
The number of UK design engineers remained stable in 2007
Drive forward gathers momentum 24/01/2008
Latest steps forward in integrated motor drive and control systems unveiled
Armed to the teeth 22/01/2008
New-style planetary gears bring substantial speed reductions in a robust mechanism occupying minimal space
Teamwork makes for tasty results 22/01/2008
A breakthrough instant ice cream-making and vending machine is the product of a remarkable design collaboration
Precision expert to speak at Linear Motion Design Day 18/01/2008
Professor Paul Shore will explain how high precision linear motion is critical in production of optical components
UK proposal for Space Station modules 17/01/2008
UK engineers and scientists are urging the UK government to join the International Space Station (ISS) programme
iDEA winner grows again 16/01/2008
Cambridge Design Partnership, last year’s Design Collaboration winner, expands its team
F1 expertise fuels breakthroughs 15/01/2008
Radical design technologies developed in Formula 1 and being made available for mainstream engineering
Love Truck sticks metal to ceramic 14/01/2008
Epoxy adhesive sticks ceramic tiles to a Nissan truck for an art car parade
Bleeding radiators dry 11/01/2008
A Birmingham-based inventor has developed a device that allows radiators to be ‘bled’ at the touch of a button
 
Rockwell and Dassault Systèmes to develop virtual design and production environment 10/01/2008
Rockwell Automation and Dassault Systemes are to develop a joint solution that will, they say, make a virtual design, development and production environment a reality.
Moving by microns 09/01/2008
A piezoelectric ceramic actuator technology can move camera components with micron-level accuracy
Inventors Fellowship 08/01/2008
Robert Merlyn Farwell, inventor of the BioLecTracer, described in the December 2005 edition of Eureka, has started online, “The Inventors Fellowship”
British equipment starts Russian mining 07/01/2008
An 800kW rated, British designed and built soft start unit is shortly to begin work in a Russian coal mine
 
Siemens PLM claims milestones in digital lifecycle simulation 04/01/2008
Siemens PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives since the acquisition of UGS last year, says it has achieved a series of milestones in CAE (computer-aided-engineering) in terms of major users, new people and new software.
Surveys show rise in manufacturing exports 03/01/2008
Stronger exports helped UK manufacturers to end 2007 on a high
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