University Electronics

RS Components now has 100,000 users in schools and colleges of its free-for-download DesignSpark PCB design tool via its educational network licence. In the last five years 100,000 users from more than 200 places of education across the globe, including schools, academies, colleges and universities, have been using the PCB tool. Before the launch of the licence, the DesignSpark PCB tool needed to be ...

Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK. This comes as Edinburgh’s Centre for Robotics hosts the European Robotics Forum (22-24 March). Earlier this month the Prime Minister welcomed Sir James Dyson’s plans to build a 500 acre campus in Wiltshire to pursue R&D into robotics ...

A report from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee has highlighted the need for the UK to improve its performance in the commercialisation of university research. Felicity Burch, CBI head of digital and innovation, agrees and she believes that the UK lags behind competitors on R&D spending. Burch believes the private sector and Government both have a major role to play in addressing this ...

To mark International Women’s Day, the IET launches the call for entries for its 2017 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards, which celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.

As part of its research into GaN transistor power supplies, the University of Bristol has created the fastest active gate driver reported so far

An imaginative smart textiles design workshop has shown that involvement in new technologies can benefit people with mental health issues, writes Richard Wilson A research project involving technology product design using smart textiles has been used to help people with mental health conditions by lowering levels of anxiety. Dr Sarah Kettley, a reader in product design at Nottingham Trent University, ...

A majority stake in Cambridge Graphene, a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge, has been acquired by UK-based firm Versarien, creating major graphene centre in the UK

Regius Professor Christofer Toumazou has been recognised for his work saving and improving lives through leading edge medical research with the Elektra Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Toumazou’s list of achievements includes cochlear implants for born-deaf children, an artificial pancreas for type 1 diabetics and a wireless heart monitor for personalised post-operative healthcare. He invented and commercialised a semiconductor device which is ...

A smartphone that measures gravity and a noise monitor for oceans are among the top university projects which Electronics Weekly has reported on in 2016.

A student engineer from the University of Sussex has won the ‘Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award’ for designing a vehicle battery that charges quickly. Josh de Wit, a second-year mechanical engineering student, exploited the qualities of graphene. A car battery made with stacked graphene, according to de Wit, would take far less time to charge, store more energy and be cheaper, ...