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Electric vehicles’ unsustainable little secret

25/10/2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been heralded as the answer to transportation’s sustainability issues. However, there’s one key component that needs some work if EVs are to become a completely sustainable method of transport – the battery. Here, Simone Bruckner, Managing Director of Cressall, investigates the dark side of EV batteries.

The solution to the skills gap? Playing!

13/10/2021

According to the Annual Manufacturing Report 2020, the UK manufacturing is now facing the largest shortage of skilled workers since 1989. The radical transformation in technologies has significantly boosted productivity, but it has also widened the skill gap.

What’s changed in motor design?

11/10/2021

Over 200 years, electric motors have evolved into one of the largest single consumers of energy in the world and, today, they account for around 45 percent of global energy consumption. Here, Marek Lukaszczyk, European and Middle East Marketing Manager at WEG, explains why, and how, motor designs and innovations have always strived for new levels of efficiency.

Engineering labour shortage: It’s a post-lockdown boom, not a symptom of Brexodus

11/10/2021

The labour shortages facing the UK’s engineering industry is not the result of a Brexodus of foreign workers but of a post-lockdown boom, an examination of the current jobs market has concluded.

A revolution in higher education: In conversation with tomorrow’s engineers

06/10/2021

On 6 September, NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) opened its doors to a new Design Cohort, a group of students undertaking its innovative Integrated Engineering Undergraduate Master’s Degree (MEng).

Editors Blog

Electric vehicles’ unsustainable little secret

The solution to the skills gap? Playing!

What’s changed in motor design?

Engineering labour shortage: It’s a post-lockdown boom, not a symptom of Brexodus

A revolution in higher education: In conversation with tomorrow’s engineers