Industry News

• Career set for take off with Mastership programme 19th June 2018
  Joel Fuentes Tobin, Research & Technology Campus Manager at BAE Systems, talks to The Student Engineer about how a Mastership – a Master’s degree level apprenticeship – has helped his career take flight. What’s your role with BAE Systems?Between my 4th and 5th years of studying for a Master’s in Aeromechanical Engineering at Strathclyde University, […]
• CT scanning could help early diagnosis and monitoring of arthritis 19th June 2018
  A novel use for the established imaging technique could improve arthritis treatment options CT scans of hip, knee and ankle showing space between the bones in the joint compared with two-dimensional x-ray images. Image: Tom Turmezei Osteoarthritis is a painfully common condition, but hard to treat effectively and to diagnose early. It occurs when the […]
• This Week’s Poll: are engineers paid enough? 19th June 2018
  With the publication this week of The Engineer’s annual salary survey, we’re asking whether engineers are paid enough? Now in its 4th year, the survey – which we’re running in partnership with Technical Recruitment specialist CBSbutler – attracted a large response from UK engineers of all levels of seniority and across all sectors – and […]
• Patent filings: the truth behind the data 19th June 2018
  New figures suggest innovation in the UK has increased, but we are lagging behind other parts of Europe and Brexit could yet turn the clock back writes Karl Barnfather chairman of IP firm Withers & Rogers The latest batch of patent filing data released by the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals that innovation activity in […]
• Last week’s poll: Jaguar Land Rover in Slovakia 19th June 2018
  What is the main message we should take from Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to move production of Land Rover Discovery from Solihull to Slovakia? If 41 per cent of last week’s respondents are right, JLR’s decision to build Discovery models in a new Slovakian factory lays down a warning about what could happen if Brexit […]