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The new Alphabet Workers Union is making clear that changes must be put in place, both in education and on the job, to allow engineers to start taking responsibility for the social impact of their work.
Engineering students in Malawi and Tanzania have used the materials and tools available to them to build ventilators, personal protective equipment and UV disinfection systems.
Nile communities carefully monitored and recorded the river’s flow. Centuries later these records are still being used by water resource managers around the world to analyse unpredictable river flows.
For every 0.1°C rise in temperature, the number of sinkholes increases by 1 to 3%.
Wind turbines in cold areas typically include methods for removing and repelling ice, but those methods can waste energy. There’s a better way.
Starship’s groundbreaking design will help it land safely on Mars one day.
Sensors are everywhere, from your phone to your medicine cabinet. Here’s how they turn events in the physical world into words and numbers.
Curved origami isn’t just elegant art. It’s also a versatile way to vary the amount of force applied by robots and other machines.
An optical sensor that can detect individual molecules promises early detection of diseases and environmental contamination.
Hyperloop might still be a dream but new technologies promise to make trains faster and safer.
A new hands-on learning program helps families with young children build their engineering skills.
Creating a digital twin of infrastructure or services makes them easier to monitor and operate safely.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gas industry is the province’s largest contributor to the economy and will be critically important to its future.
In under 10 days, engineers from UCL and Mercedes F1 reverse-engineered a product, produced a new design, tested it, got regulatory approval and started production.
It’s not as simple as churning out more products, though that’s a good starting point.
Engineers may be able to develop new ways of opening doors or better and mass-produced face masks for the elderly.
More than 20,000 American high school students have made their own guitars in school over the past decade. Many of them have wound up more into learning about STEM disciplines.
The Euler spiral has helped engineers for over 100 years – now we’re using it to understand biology.
A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
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