Posts in Technical news

Siemens recently conducted a survey with schoolchildren, examining attitudes about a prospective career in engineering. The results were illuminating. Just 10% of the 11-14 year olds interviewed said they thought engineering was ‘important’ and another 40% believed it was ‘dirty’ or ‘smelly’. It illustrates the point that advocates of engineering and manufacturing still have work [...]

Engine maker Rolls-Royce has added an extra 800 people to its Derby workforce in the 12 months to October 2011. The Derby-based firm told the BBC some of the jobs were moves within the company, but many were new apprentices and graduates. The company received billions of pounds of orders in the last 12 months and [...]

The Government has launched its National Infrastructure Plan to boost growth by upgrading transport links – to help business and create jobs. The chancellor George Osborne (pictured) said today in his Autumn Statement: “We are identifying over 500 infrastructure projects we want to see built over the next decade and beyond. Roads, railways, airport capacity, [...]

Promise to ‘root out needless bureaucracy’ following Lofstedt Review Self-employed people should be exempt from health and safety regulations, while businesses should have the right to appeal to a new panel over decisions that affect them, a major review of health and safety for business has concluded. The Lofstedt review, which was published yesterday and has [...]

Aero Club successfully completes first phase of educating, mentoring and instructing Indian school students on the dynamics of aero modeling science.   Honeywell has conducted India’s first Aero Club flying competition at the Air Force Bal Bharti School (AFBBS) in Delhi, to train the next generation of Indian aviation enthusiasts and engineers on the science [...]

Future engineering projects including High Speed Rail and the scaling up of UK nuclear power could be “fatally undermined by a dangerous shortfall in engineering graduates”, according to a report launched today by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The ‘Meeting the Challenge: Demand and Supply of Engineers in the UK’ report estimates the UK needs 31,100 new graduate [...]