Industry News

• Bloodhound supersonic car project goes into administration 15th October 2018
  The company behind Bloodhound SSC, the British effort to build a 1000 mph supersonic car, has announced that the project has gone into administration.   Founded in 2007 by Richard Noble and Andy Green (who set the existing land speed record of 763.035 mph with ThrustSSC back in 1997) the project aims  to hit speeds of […]
• Protests in Lancashire as Cuadrilla fracking set to resume 15th October 2018
  Anti-fracking activists have attempted to disrupt activities at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool after Cuadrilla operations were given the go-ahead to resume by UK courts. Fracking at Preston New Road has been suspended for the past seven years after initial work caused a serious of seismic tremors. Last Friday saw an environmental campaigner […]
• Autonomous UAVOS pseudo-satellite makes successful test flights 15th October 2018
  A solar-powered unmanned aircraft, designed to operate autonomously as a pseudo-satellite for up to a year at a time, has successfully completed its first stage of flight tests. Developed by Silicon Valley-based UAVOS, the High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) ApusDuo features dual parallel wings covered in solar panels, with the wings connected by three struts. The […]
• Shortlist Preview: C2I 2018 – a celebration of collaboration  15th October 2018
  The shortlisted finalists for The Engineer’s 2018 Collaborate To Innovate awards highlight the strength and depth of UK engineering innovation  Now in its third year, Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) was launched to uncover inspiring examples of UK engineering collaboration and highlight the way in which engineers from different sectors and disciplines are working together to […]
• Researchers take inspiration from KGB to develop context aware devices 15th October 2018
  Innovative new methods for analysing sound and vibrations could lead to a new generation of context-aware devices able to detect what’s happening around them, according to a research group from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US. The group’s work – which is being presented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s User Interface Software and […]