Opinion

A productivity boosting rotary forge that can provide up to 90% materials savings compared to conventional machining is being shipped from Scotland to a world leading forging company in Sheffield, consolidating a research partnership with the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) – part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

Scotland’s trade body for the digital technologies industry, ScotlandIS, has published a White Paper on ‘The Future of eLearning’.

Commissioned from, and written by, Wendy Edie, Managing Director of Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment developer, eCom Scotland, the White Paper advocates deploying technology-delivered learning to bring sustainability and help drive government and corporate agendas regarding upskilling, re-skilling and performance support.

Hybrid solar cells with electrical and thermal elements could provide more useful energy with the addition of a vertical mirror, an international team of researchers has found.

Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, delivered the following keynote address at the 2022 Maritime UK Awards.

A new report, Engineering Ethics: maintaining society’s trust in the engineering profession, has been published today to ensure that ethical culture and practice become embedded in the engineering profession in the same way as health and safety considerations. The report has been produced by the joint Engineering Ethics Reference Group, established in 2019 by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Council, and includes a roadmap of short-, medium- and long-term actions to embed ethical best practice. At the heart of the report is the need to retain public confidence in the ethical behaviour of engineers.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are lending their support to a new project which aims to help enable the future take-up and integration of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels, to support the UK’s climate change ambitions and for a strategic roadmap for the country’s hydrogen economy.

Strathclyde is a partner in three energy network innovation projects which will help to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero at the lowest cost to consumers.

The three projects involving Strathclyde are among 40 which have received up to £150,000 each to carry out a two-month ‘discovery’ phase on their potential.

The Institute of Marine Science, Engineering and Technology (IMarEST) has welcomed UNESCO’s goal of including ocean education in the school curricula of its 193 Member States by 2025. The plan includes a new toolkit for policymakers and curriculum developers which has been co-authored by IMarEST’s strategic partner Encounter Edu.

Historically, new railways have driven economic development. This is particularly true of high-speed rail, which has provided transformational benefits.

A new metamaterial-based antenna can harvest energy from radio waves, such as the ones used by mobile phone networks or Bluetooth connections.

It may be older than Stonehenge and even the Pyramids at Giza, but Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is bringing over 5,000 years of history at Skara Brae in Orkney into the 21st century with a new digital 3D model of the site.

Women now make up 16.5% of the engineering workforce, new analysis has found, up from 10.5% in 2010.