Legislation & Skills

The Lighting Research Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is questioning some of the findings in a report on LED street lighting from the American Medical Association (AMA) – which advocates LED lighting, but urges caution on luminaire selection. See also: Cree talks LED streetlamps. Last month, physicians at the AMA annual meeting adopted guidance on how street lighting planners should select ...

A group of organisations representing the engineering profession is to provide the government with advice on how the needs of all sectors that have a dependence on engineering are represented in upcoming Brexit negotiations. The aim is to ensure that the UK maintains its position as a centre of world class engineering research, remains embedded in setting globally recognised codes ...

Microelectronics has always been a male dominated industry. Whichever statistics you choose to look at, the numbers for women are not good, writes Richard Wilson Why is this still the case? How does the industry motivate women to become engineers? And do women have something unique to offer in the microelectronics industry? To find the answers to these questions we ...

The EU has reminded member states that they are required to implement EU occupational health & safety directive 2013/35/EU on electromagnetic fields in national law no later than 1 July 2016. Despite the Brexit vote, it is expected that this EU Directive will be implemented in the UK. Directive 2013/35/EU defines minimum regulations for the protection of the health & ...

Julian David, CEO of techUK, representing the technology and IT sector has said that the UK vote to leave the EU was not the outcome that the majority of techUK members were hoping for. “It opens up many uncertainties about the future. However, the UK tech sector will play its part in helping the UK to prepare, adapt and thrive ...

UK head of a leading engineering company believes women have the potential to solve some of the world’s biggest engineering problems and address the skills shortage in the sector. On National Women in Engineering Day, the president of Bosch UK believes the internet of things (IoT) could be an opportunity to encourage more woman to be recognised for electronics system ...

The Big Bang Fair is looking for companies, education institutions and show organisers to play their part in next year’s Fair, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham, 15-18 March 2017. The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair brings together the STEM community in a collective effort to inspire over 70,000 young people, their teachers and parents across ...

The Linux Foundation, the body promoting the open source software ecosystem, has introduced a new online training course for engineers who want to move into networking, with the skills necessary to manage a software-defined network (SDN) deployment. The Linux Foundation believes there is a growing need for SDN skills and it says that open source is “leading the charge in the growth of SDN ...

Excessive internet use contributes to the development of school burnout. School burnout, in turn, may lead to excessive internet use or digital addiction, according to research by the Academy of Finland. The findings show that, via school burnout, adolescents’ excessive internet use can ultimately lead to depression. Exposure to digital addiction is most likely to happen if the adolescent loses ...

The Royal Society is commissioning a study to understand the challenges faced by teachers delivering computing and computer science and share best practice which can be adopted more widely. Professor Stephen Furber (right), from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will lead the research study which is part of a wider  action plan to transform computing ...