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Volume 7, Issue 12
December 2012
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1202
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One person's bad luck is another person's opportunity...how will your engineering sector fare in 2013? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1205
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The latest engineering stories from around the globe. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 8 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1206
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Rodrigo de Freitas. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1207
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1208
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On Friday December 14, 1962, Nasa's Mariner II probe passed within 35,000km of Venus, becoming the first robotic spacecraft to successfully 'fly-by' another planet. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1209
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1210
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In this month's Number News Bombardier wins the sector's largest ever order of business aircraft, while seven companies face a euro1.5bn fine for fixing CRT markets. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1224
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- Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1225
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Jaguar Land Rover ironically raises it British-icon status as it moves into China, while Germany's troubled ThyssenKrupp sacks half its board. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 17 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1226
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- Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1200
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Mark Venables looks at reaction to the Energy Bill, with its strong focus on market measures. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1227
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The ability to design, engineer, manufacture and distribute gifts to 300 million children worldwide in a single night is one many leading companies would covet. No wonder then that the staff noticeboard at Santa's North Pole workshop has been subject to a little industrial espionage. A case perhaps for Ho-Ho-7? Our resident industrial spies Mike Barfield and Dan Shadrake gained exclusive access to Santa Management Office's noticeboard. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1228
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Pick of the E&T inbox. - Author(s): G. Clapperton and A. Kates
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1201
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With Boris Johnson campaigning to 'save the Guardian', our experts turn their attention to debating whether we will realistically still be reading 'paper' newspapers in five years. - Author(s): A. Robertson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 28 –28
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1203
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The government needs to act now if it is to optimise the benefits of a decentralised power network, says Andrew Robertson. - Author(s): A. Andrews ; M. Harris ; C. Edwards ; J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 29 –36
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1204
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E&T staff and contributors take a punt at predicting what's in and what's out across the seven engineering sectors in 2013. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1211
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The power of the ocean is apparent to all and we are now much closer to harnessing that energy to power our lifestyle. According to the British Cartographic Society the length of coastline of Great Britain plus its principal islands is just shy of 20,000 miles, so it comes as no surprise that marine energy is considered to hold great potential as a future energy source. According to research by The Carbon Trust - Technology Innovation Needs Assessment (TINA) - this has the potential to deliver more than 75TWh a year; over 10 per cent of the UK's predicted needs, by mid century. Predictions of how much of that energy can be harvested by 2050 vary from 20GW to zero. What is clear, however, is that it will not have any impact before 2020. The same report pointed to the pricing pressures that marine energy will face. It predicts that it will need to reduce costs by 50-75 per cent by 2025 if it is to compete with offshore wind power. This level of cost reduction is ambitious but conceivable with significant economies of scale and innovation, combined with supply chain optimisation and appropriate financing. - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1212
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The smart grid continues to evolve as the network faces the challenges of new patterns of generation. One proposal that has been championed for several decades is the Smart Grid, an often elusive concept that has remained the same despite having had to suffer numerous rebrands over the years: the intelligent grid, the self-healing grid, and soon. The essence is always the same: it is really a grid that permits network operators to maximise their assets with real-time Information, which allows them to react to changing demand and fluctuating generation patterns, as well as avoid power disruption caused by failures in part of the system. It is a transmission and distribution system that employs fledgling technologies such as real-time monitoring, autonomous control, two-way communications, smart meters and energy storage. - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 46 –48
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1213
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The energy supply industry is gearing up for a mass rollout of smart meters across the UK, but should reports of smart-meter fire-related incidents be a cause for concern? The energy supply sector, like all infrastructure sectors, is draped in red tape. But despite the complex web of meetings between regulators, civil servants, energy companies and other interested parties, the sector is in danger of losing sight of one of the most important aspects of all: the safety of consumers in their own homes. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 50 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1214
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Google's data-centres, the biggest in the world, could easily set the bar for an industry-wide standard, apart from the fact that it builds everything itself. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1229
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If you are a female engineering manager you'll probably earn half a million pounds less over your career than your male counterpart. Petra Wilton, director of policy and research at the Chartered Management Institute, explains why. Words and portrait by Nick Smith. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 56 –60
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1215
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Big data comes in many forms. It comes as customer information and transactions contained in customer-relationship management and enterprise resourceplanning systems and HTML-based web stores. It comes as information generated by machine-to-machine applications collecting data from smart meters, manufacturing sensors, equipment logs, trading systems data and call detail records compiled by fixed and mobile telecommunications companies. Big data can come with big differences. Some say that the 'three Vs' of big data should more properly be tagged as the 'three HVs': high-volume, high-variety, high-velocity, and high-veracity. Apply those tags to the mountains of information posted on social network and blogging sites, including Facebook, Twitter and VouTube; the deluge of text contained in email and instant messages; not to mention audio and video files. It is evident then that it's not necessarily the 'big-ness' of information that presents big-data applications and services with their greatest challenge, but the variety and the speed at which all that constantly changing information must be ingested, processed, aggregated, filtered, organised and fed back in a meaningful way for businesses to get some value out of it. - Author(s): T. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 61 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1216
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Recent terrorist attacks on infrastructure have highlighted the vulnerability of our rail and road networks, reinforcing the importance of good risk assessments to protect some of our biggest assets. - Author(s): A. Bodhani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 64 –68
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1217
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More and more organisations are being targeted in cyber-attacks, and they must get to know their enemy if they are to protect vital networks. Meet the professional, ethical hacker. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 69 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1218
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E&T magazine is once again a preferred media partner for this year's Hannover Messe showcase of industrial and engineering technology innovation. This first of three previews introduces the 11 technology-specific trade shows that make-up Hannover Messe 2013 - including details of free entry for IET members. - Author(s): A. Grogan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 70 –72
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1219
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Wool is back. A sustainable, renewable and eco-friendly fabric, spun wool has become the coveted textile of choice for fashion designers around the world, and has swamped the London, Milan, Paris and New York Fashion weeks with knitwear so finely manufactured it resembles silk. Good news for the UK, as it is British manufactured wool that is most in demand, thanks to the efforts of a select few design houses to raise the status of the nation's product as part of the Campaign for Wool. Fronted by the Prince of Wales and supported by the likes of Dame Vivienne Westwood, Burberry, Sir Paul Smith, Topshop and an assortment of fine British suit makers, the campaign has created a global community of sheep farmers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and consumers aiming to highlight the versatility of the wool in fashion, furnishings and everyday life. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 74 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1220
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This paper presents future developments of supply chain systems. Trucks were rolling out from Tesco's huge warehouses, in the process of delivering tonnes of foodstuffs to the supermarket chain's 3,000 outlets around the UK, their contents determined by the output of a statistical model that takes into account the local weather, local buying habits, and which day it is. Historic weather data causes change in purchasing behaviour. The core of the system is a regression model built in Mathworks' Matlab of weather and sales to work out what changes make consumers change behaviour. - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 78 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1221
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The movers and shakers in UK engineering have voiced concern that heritage sites are too dependent on the skills of a voluntary and largely ageing workforce. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is concerned that: This has the potential to significantly compromise our ability to preserve our industrial heritage in the future. Knowledge transfer is key to working towards a more sustainable and self-sufficient solution. We need to take action now to help transfer skills, so that vital techniques and practices to maintain these precious links to our past aren't lost forever. - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 82 –84
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1222
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The traditional woodland management technique of coppicing provides woodchip for Scotney Castles biomass boiler. New technologies are increasingly being installed alongside the old ones as the National Trust introduces renewable energy to key heritage sites to meet ambitious carbon-friendly targets. - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 85 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1223
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Beneath the sands of Porthcurno, Cornwall, lie the remains of a submarine telegraph system that helped pave the way for modern communications technology. In the far west of Cornwall, beyond Penzance and just three miles east of Land's End, lies one of the most beautiful beaches in Britain. Porthcurno, the name is reputedly a derivation of 'bay of rocks' in old Cornish, is an idyllic cove, sheltered between towering granite cliffs, with a beach of pale soft sand sloping into the turquoise sea. It takes a bit of getting to, but on a summer's day the other-worldly beauty ofthe place is a veritable magnet for tourists. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 88 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1230
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Fitness technology's come a long way since the invention of the Bullworker. Here's the high-tech answer to fighting the flab. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 90 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1231
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A handbag-sized iPad with almost all the specs of its larger sibling. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1232
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The holiday season is over, you've overeaten and overspent. Here's some apps that may help you regain the pounds in your bank account, not on your waistline. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1233
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New biographies of two technology pioneers are at the top of this month's pile. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 96 –97
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1234
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One of the biggest challenges facing the technology business is how to compete in China and India. Nick Smith talks to the co-author of a new book that addresses the subject. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 98 –98
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1235
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Gerhard Fisher was wise to ignore some pretty weighty expert opinion about his prototype metal detector. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 100 –100
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1236
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This month Jack helps fellow student Ern devise a way to spend his inheritance. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 101 –101
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1237
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Parachutists, missing numbers and county cricket feature in this month's conundrums with a prize up for grabs for the winner. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 102 –103
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1238
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Find out how the Great Wall of China was built. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 104 –105
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1239
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A novel approach to flood rescue. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, p. 106 –109
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1240
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As we stand on the threshold of a New Year, E&T offers a truly unbelievable insight into what 2013 may or, most likely, may not hold for those in the world of science and technology. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 110 –110
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1241
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Bits and pieces of cryptic and other Christmas fun. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 12, page: 114 –114
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1242
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A pre-Christmas stretch inside a gadget-ridden Big Brother house culminates in a journey back in time.
Editor's Letter
World news
The bigger picture: Rodrigo de Freitas
News
The Graphic
News
Number news
News
Business focus
News in brief
News Analysis: Three-pronged Bill aims to encourage investment
Santa's management noticeboard
Letters to the Editor
For and against
Comment: If you ask me
Predictions for 2013 across our seven sectors
Taming the tides
Grid gets the smarts
In the safety of our own homes
Photo essay
Interview with Petra Wilton
Puzzling out big data
Risky business [rail and road network]
Bad... in a good way [ethical hacking]
Hannover Messe 2013
The wonder of wool
The future is in there... somewhere [supply chain systems]
Bridging the gap of history
Looking forward... looking back [heritage renewable energy]
PK calling
Gadgets
The Teardown: Apple iPad Mini
Software reviews: Budgeting debt away
Book reviews
Book interview: Michael J. Silverstein
The eccentric engineer
Jack's blog
Thinking cap
Classic projects: Great Wall of China
The bigger picture: Floating to safety
The future lies ahead
e&tCetera
After all: Old gadgets make for an unlikely time machine
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