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A graduate from the James Watt School of Engineering has received a prestigious award from one of Glasgow’s historic trade guilds.

Exactly 203 years since Heriot-Watt opened its doors to provide life-changing education, the University has launched a major new fund-raising campaign to shape the future – and change lives – on a global scale.

Innovators of all ages gathered at the prestigious Primary Engineer MacRobert Medal Award Ceremony in Glasgow this week, celebrating the collaborative achievements of school pupils, university students, and engineers. Hosted at the stunning Barony Hall, the event showcased cutting-edge prototypes developed from young students’ imaginative engineering ideas.

University of Dundee projects are among a series of carbon-cutting collaborations aimed at making life in Scotland more sustainable.

An insightful new cut of the data sets behind the EI Statistical Review of World Energy has been published, highlighting the complex variety of energy and emissions stories unfolding in economies around the world.

Engineering firms have a duty to take reasonable measures to ensure that everybody who comes into contact with their operations is unharmed by them. This has a cost, and those in charge of health and safety must decide what to spend.

Large manufacturing employers are complaining that new recruits lack the skills needed for digital transformation, according to the head of a major trade organisation.

Meeting growing global cooling energy demand will require a radical rethink of the essential role of cooling across large parts of the world. So argues Professor Toby Peters from the University of Birmingham.

IES members recently visited Howdens ( now part of Chart Industries) in Glasgow 

This Alert draws attention to the safety risks associated with preventing the operation of smoke vents, in particular Automatic Opening Vents (AOVs), by construction work on existing buildings.

The British Science Association (BSA), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the University of Liverpool are pleased to announce that the British Science Festival for 2025 will take place in Liverpool across five days next September.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to “turn the page on the last 14 years” as she set out the first Labour budget since 2010 today (30 October).