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A bursary scheme for school students has been launched by EngineeringUK to introduce children to STEM through hands-on activities. The bursary fund will be available to schools “with high proportions of students from groups underrepresented in the engineering profession”. Eligible primary schools can apply for the bursary of £550.00, rising to £750 for secondary schools, to work with Neon, a ...

The UK has come up with a plan to provide alternative sources to China for telecoms, pharmaceuticals and other key supplies. The government has proposed to Washington a plan to form a D10 group of ten democracies – the G7 plus India, Korea and Australia – to create alternative sources of supply of 5G and other goods. Funnelling resources to ...

Engineers, anaesthetists and surgeons from the University of Oxford and King’s College London are building and testing prototype ventilators that can be manufactured using techniques and tools available in well-equipped university and small and medium enterprise (SME) workshops. The team, led by Oxford Professors Andrew Farmery, Mark Thompson and Alfonso Castrejon-Pita and King’s College London’s Dr Federico Formenti, have been working to ...

Prof. Lucy Rogers PhD will host the Engineering Edge, a podcast created by RS Components which promises to interview engineers “from the primal to the professional” and find out how they use technology to make things better. The former BBC Robot Wars judge and co-presenter of DesignSpark’s History Makers and the DesignSpark podcast is going on the road, touring the ...

Cambridge-based Rob Percival, former maths teacher turned entrepreneur, has created a maths learning system using artificial intelligence (AI) called Blutick. The program was developed in close collaboration with The Perse School in Cambridge, and backed by investment from the Cambridge Angels network. “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Blutick to create this extra tool for teachers and ...

RS Components has launched Imagine-X, an education initiative designed to promote STEM subjects by providing free teacher resources to help pupils “realise the potential of STEM and their imaginations”. Imagine-X has been developed by RS – as part of its ongoing commitment to raising awareness of STEM subjects – to assist teachers and educators in the delivery of STEM subjects. ...

Developed in partnership with Google, the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab is compatible with Google Science Journal. The kit is designed to provide students with a hands-on experience, enabling them to explore forces, motion, magnetism and conductivity with their classmates.  Students will make their own hypothesis, check their assumptions, and log data using Google’s Science Journal. Recommended for two classmates ...

Technical service provider, TÜV SÜD, has launched its IoT cellular testing service. The service will be accommodated within the existing facility, claimed to be the only laboratory in the UK to offer a dedicated Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) test and certification service. Explaining the rationale for the service, TÜV SÜD explained that NB-IoT enables multiple machines, devices and services to be connected ...

RS Components has partnered with connector and sensor company, TE Connectivity, to launch TE Learning Centre, an online, interactive educational resource for connectivity and sensor technologies. The Centre is available now on DesignSpark, RS Components’ community for design engineers. There will be a series of interactive micro-courses, lasting between five and 10 minutes, with information on different technologies and applications. ...

What does it take to create fleet-management systems that can use big data, remote management, and even machine-learning technology?  The on-board and back-end systems deserve particularly close attention. For example, the on-board computer. A good example is the Advantech TREK-570, an embedded PC is equipped with I/O including configurable vehicle diagnostic interfaces, such as CAN and J1708, and a plethora ...