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Volume 13, Issue 6
1 July 2018
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0609
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International Women in Engineering Day is on 23 June. Things have to change - because it's vital for business it gets more diversity, if for no other reason. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0610
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News from around the world. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 8 –8
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0611
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Computex 2018 found Taiwan steadily addressing the challenges ahead. - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 10 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0612
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Russia's nuclear energy business Rosatom is using reactors designed for icebreakers to provide energy in a remote coastal region. - Author(s): J. Loughran
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0613
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Drones have attracted a "welldeserved" bad reputation as tools for violations of human rights, breaches of privacy and irresponsible and dangerous uses by hobbyists, according to a leading UK robotics expert. - Author(s): H. Lamb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0614
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Researchers based at the University of Bonn have developed software capable of predicting what will happen minutes into the future, using the example of salad preparation. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0615
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Synthetic diamonds - manufactured by chemical vapour deposition (CvD) - are grown in carbon-containing gas in a plasma state. Layers of carbon atoms create stones chemically identical to mined diamonds. - Author(s): C. Chambers
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0616
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The US tech industry has been ignoring regulations with little comeback - until now. Governments are finally fighting back against the power of the big data companies. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0617
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Send your letters to The Editor, E&T, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2AY, UK, or to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit letters and to use submissions in any other format. - Author(s): J. D'Ath
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 19 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0618
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If women need a special day to highlight industry's gender imbalance, society has to recognise that there is a deeper problem. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0619
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Liu Hui, one of the Chinese volunteers who have completed a year-long stay in a closed laboratory designed to simulate a lunar base, collects vegetables grown in the Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace 1, at Beihang University in Beijing. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 22 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0600
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The article examines some of the data from the UK gender pay gap survey showing that one of the UK's biggest and most important industries (engineering) is not really employing that many women (who are half the population) and it pays those women it does employ less than men are paid in that same profession. In April 2018, UK employers with more than 250 staff were required by government to publish data on their gender pay gap. A gender pay gap doesn't imply a man and woman doing the same job but having unequal pay, which is against the law. Instead, firms have to calculate the mean or median difference between men's and women's earnings throughout their organisation. - Author(s): T. Fryer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 26 –30
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0601
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The skills shortage in engineering is now recognised. Projects are becoming embedded within schools that have tried to use a combination of creativity and industry to enhance the image of engineering to young children, and particularly to girls. - Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 31 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0620
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Shelley Gretlein is sometimes known as 'Lady Labview' at National Instruments, where she is vice-president of corporate marketing, but she is also active in Girlstart, FIRST Robotics, and the Women's Leadership Forum. Dickon Ross talked to her during NI Week in Austin, Texas, about diversity in American engineering at this year's event. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 32 –36
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0602
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Harassment of females in the workplace is everywhere. A snowballing of claims and campaigning in all industries has led to a slew of criminal convictions and exposure to what really happens behind `closed doors' The article shows that the engineering industry is no different. - Author(s): J. Loeb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 38 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0621
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Children's television shows like 'Bitz and Bob' and 'Do You Know?' are channelling the energy and enthusiasm of the UK's pre-schoolers into STEM subjects to create the next generation of engineers. Is that any wonder when the woman in charge of the BBC's children's content is herself is a chartered engineer? - Author(s): J. Loeb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0622
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Which women should have won a Nobel Prize? E&T's top ten honours those with a strong case who have been overlooked. - Author(s): H. Vella
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 44 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0603
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From revenge porn to cyber-stalking, digital technologies have created new means for gender-based domestic violence and abuse. As Internet of Things-enabled systems flood our homes and lives, should we be on our guard? - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 48 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0623
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Women are seriously underrepresented in the space industry, at only 11 per cent of history's space explorers, which could mean the following list of inspirational women and girls are the Hidden Figures of tomorrow. However, initiatives around the world are trying to change that. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0624
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Roma Agrawal is one of engineering's rising stars. A successful London-based structural engineer and author of the critically acclaimed book 'Built', she is also an advocate for inclusivity in engineering. "If our profession doesn't reflect our population, then we're doing something wrong," she says. - Author(s): T. Fryer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 56 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0604
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At a time when all the talk is of automation, Industrial Internet of Things, robotics et al, it is perhaps a fitting time to raise a toast to one of the building blocks of modern manufacturing, the PLC, which turns 50 this year. Talk these days is of pushing control to the edge, where remote nodes can communicate with each other, while machine and system flexibility is largely taken for granted. All of which would have been inconceivable in the 60s when control came by virtue of banks of relays. Any change of function would require shutting down the machine, rewiring and adding to the relay matrix, debugging and then hoping the next change wasn't imminent. - Author(s): N. Newman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 58 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0605
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As a means of creating secure, tamperproof records in real time, blockchain technology is attracting the attention of the transport and logistics industry. The ability for every member of a supply chain to associate the correct documentation with goods and track their progress from supplier to customer should not only cut costs and reduce errors but also bring transparency to transactions for all parties. People at the forefront of these developments say the arrival of blockchain is likely to be as transformative for the freight industry as the advent of containerisation was in the 1960s. This article takes a look at blockchain technology, its applications, benefits and obstacles to adoption in the transport sector. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 62 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0606
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The author discusses the Parker Solar Probe (formerly Solar Probe Plus) which will be placed in orbit within 3.9 million miles (about 6.2 million km) of the surface of the Sun. This is just 4 per cent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun and much closer than any previous spacecraft. The engineering challenges of diving into the Sun's outer corona (which, incidentally, is hotter than the surface) are immense. One only has to think how hot it can get on Earth, 150 million km from the source of the heat. The probe will experience a solar intensity more than 500 times that of a spacecraft in Earth orbit - which puts the pressure firmly on the thermal design engineers. In addition to the thermal design, the author discusses the scientific instrumentation and gives an overview of the mission. - Author(s): H. Lamb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0625
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His introduction to the fundamentals of physics was a bestseller, so how did Carlo Rovelli go about duplicating that success with a book explaining the principles of time? - Author(s): L. Murray
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 68 –68
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0607
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Extracting vital mineral resources from underground has never been easy, so the mining industry relies on technology to improve productivity and economics, and enhance safety in the notoriously cyclical business. Partially autonomous mines are the latest trend. In Western Australia, the Solomon iron ore mine operates a fleet of giant Caterpillar haulage trucks that move mineral-bearing rocks with minimal human intervention. The result has been productivity increases of up to 30 per cent, an increase in equipment utilisation, a decrease in equipment damage, and a removal of at least part of the workforce from the hazardous working environment. (4 pages) - Author(s): N. Newman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 74 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0608
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Maximising returns from a wind turbine typically means locating it in an exposed place - on the top of a hill or increasingly out at sea. Developing equipment to access these locations has emerged as an industry in its own right. The article concludes that if the size of turbine components transported by road and rail is limited by regulations then wind energy manufacturers will need to break up their components into smaller modularised sections, easing the burden on logistical transport companies as well as the highway and water authorities. As for the growing offshore developments around the world these could be supplied and serviced from turbine manufacturing plants based around ports and shipped to their final destinations by the growing fleet of dedicated vessels. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0626
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Aspiring Chinese space crew members Nie Haisheng (left) and Liu Wang emerge from a re-entry capsule during wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in north-west China's Gansu Province. - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0627
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Good engineering aims to keep disasters like the one portrayed in summer blockbuster 'skyscraper' where they belong - in the movies. - Author(s): C. Quin
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 82 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0628
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New tech that makes music sound better, cooks meat to perfection, turns treadmill running into a fun game and more. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 84 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0629
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Is Apple's tablet tough enough for class? - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 86 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0630
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As artificial intelligence becomes cheaper we can use it to make more and better predictions. Economist Joshua Gans argues that this is the application AI has been waiting for. - Author(s): N. Smith ; J. Wilson ; D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 88 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0631
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How we've come to understand magnetism, reasons to abandon social media, and planning for interplanetary travel. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 90 –90
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0632
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Josephine Cochrane does the dishes: personal experience inspired the design of the first practical and commercially successful dishwasher. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 92 –92
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0633
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In this month's edition I've managed to find some grand gadgets - a video game pummeler, a scanner-turned-bacteria-destroyer and a spying piece of stationery. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 93 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0634
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This month's puzzles are loosely inspired by the work of great women engineers. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0635
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Quite apart from being a byword for everything that is required of a luxury classic saloon, the impeccably stylish Hispano-Suiza H6 is something of a fascinating riddle. Despite the maker's name (meaning literally 'Spanish-Swiss'), the car was built for the most part in Paris (with some manufacturing in what was then Czechoslovakia, under licence to Skoda). - Author(s): J. Maltby
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0636
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Jack's dad wages war against the open plan office. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 13, Issue 6, page: 98 –98
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2018.0637
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How modern science and technology helped re-write an ancient Greek myth.
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Opinion: First Person - Profession: Why I'm tired of being labelled a female engineer
The Bigger Picture - Yuegong-1
Nice jobs for the girls? [engineering industry recruitment]
Creatively engaging kids [engineering education]
Education: Girls in engineering. Diversity why a queue for the ladies' loo is a marker of success
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Interview: STEM. The Engineering evangelists of CBEEBIES
We woz robbed!'
Smart abuse: who controls the controls?
PhotoEssay - Take a look at present and future women of the space industry
Interview: Roma Agrawal
Control on the edge
Can blockchain transform transport?
For the heart of the Sun [Parker Solar Probe]
Interview: Carlo Rovelli
From rats to robotics [mining industry autonomy]
The long and windy road [wind turbine installation]
The Bigger Picture - Taikonaut training
Big screen - Skyscraper: High anxiety
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