BEEAs Week Day 5: Ricardo scoops the Grand Prix The final day of BEEAs week saw a special award for VentilatorChallengeUK and the Grand Prix awarded to Ricardo.Ricardo was the recipient of the Grand Prix at the BEEAs, with the judges seeing this a long-established, global engineering, environmental and strategic consultancy as standing out from the crowd.Meanwhile, the BEEAs Special Award For Design Engineering went to VentilatorChallengeUK to recognise the incredible efforts by the engineering sector to meet ... Read Article
BEEAs Day 4: The Winners 25/03/2021 Today's winners of the Start-Up and Young Design Engineer of the Year Awards are Archangel Lightworks and Mohammed Tahir of PRFI. Read Article
BEEAS Day 3: The Winners 24/03/2021 Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) is the Small Company of the Year, while FASTT from ACPI scoops the Materials Application of the Year. Read Article
BEEAs Day Two: Winners announced 23/03/2021 ChargePod and the C34 Evolution, Allett are the Electronic and Mechanical Products of the Year. Read Article
BEEAs: first winners announced 22/03/2021 Ricardo; Precision Acoustics and Energus - nucleargraduates honoured in online ceremony. Read Article
Wireless movement-tracking system could collect health and behavioural data 13/05/2019 MIT researchers are using wireless signals to offer scientists and caregivers insight into human behaviour and health. Read Article
Inspiring children and adults to enter the world of robotics engineering 22/03/2019 Kitronik, the electronics company that specialises in developing project kits for schools and the maker community, has launched the MeArm robot arm kit to inspire children and adults to enter the world of robotics engineering. Read Article
Self-powered and washable wearable displays 22/03/2019 A textile-based wearable display module technology that is washable and does not require an external power source has been developed by a research team from KAIST. Read Article
Water resistant electronic skin with self-healing abilities 19/03/2019 A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfish to create an electronic skin with similar functionality. Read Article
Bulgin launches programmable smart connector for harsh environments 18/02/2019 Rugged connector and component manufacturer Bulgin has launched a smart connector which is designed for easy pairing of devices and connectors, real-time connection status sensing and electronic device serialisation. Read Article
Plastic bags could be the next battery 14/02/2019 Researchers have reported a new method to convert plastic bags into carbon chips that could be used as anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Read Article
Laser-induced graphene gets tough 14/02/2019 The labs of Rice University chemist James Tour and Christopher Arnusch, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, introduced a batch of laser-induced graphene (LIG) composites in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano that put the material's capabilities into more robust packages. Read Article
No-charge GNSS smartwatch 13/02/2019 u-blox, TransSiP and MATRIX Industries have unveiled PowerWatch 2, the world’s first GPS smartwatch that wont need to be recharged. Read Article