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Q&A: Mark Goudie
Mark Goudie is one of the youngest engineering Fellows in the UK, an inventor, and an engineer in the energy sector.
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- Issue 96
Securing the Internet of Everything
Our IoT devices need engineers to safeguard our privacy, say Oktay Cetinkaya and Peter Novitzky.
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- Technology & robotics
- Issue 96
Undersea information sharing
Undersea cables transport vast amounts of data across the world – and even detect whales and earthquakes.
- Aerospace
- Electricals & electronics
- Issue 95
Lift-off for the UK's space industry
The UK has an impressive history in space and a now-thriving space sector, with three new spaceports on the way.
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- Issue 94
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) help to make many of our everyday items work, from Air Pods to airbags.
- Electricals & electronics
- Environment & sustainability
- Materials
- Issue 94
Powering the pursuit of net zero
It's electrifying: what’s needed before emerging battery technologies are fully charged for a clean green future?
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- Civil & structural
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- Innovation Watch
The sensors making cities and structures smarter
UtterBerry’s matchbox-sized sensors form a network, akin to the human body’s sensory system, that provides early warning when maintenance might be needed or damage repaired.
- Aerospace
- Electricals & electronics
- Technology & robotics
- Issue 92
Why microseconds matter
Time’s time to shine: why is ultra-precise time so important for everything from bank transactions to public transport? The NPL’s Dr Leon Lobo explains all.
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- How does that work?
- Issue 90
Robotic vacuum cleaners
Twenty years after the Roomba's original release, the latest generation of robotic vacuum cleaners incorporate sophisticated machine vision technology to steer clear of electrical cables, stray socks and pet poo.
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- Electricals & electronics
- Software & computer science
- Issue 90
Q&A: Rose Grey
Rose Grey is a higher software engineer at location services startup Focal Point Positioning (FocalPoint). She recently received an award from the Royal Institute of Navigation.
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- Profiles
- Issue 90
An innovator who fills a vacuum
From outer space to the depths of the earth, Professor Trevor Cross FREng seeks new uses of the technologies that enabled the electronic revolution.
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- Electricals & electronics
- Software & computer science
- Issue 90
Supercharging GPS precision
With the help of startup FocalPoint (headed up by ‘the real-life Q’), we examine the past, present and near-future of this integral technology.
- Electricals & electronics
- Profiles
- Issue 88
The outsider who changed the system
As a Jewish Holocaust survivor, political refugee and woman in engineering, Dr Agnes Kaposi FREng has every reason to call herself an outsider. But it didn’t stop her from becoming the third woman ever to be elected as a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.
- Aerospace
- Electricals & electronics
- Issue 88
Why a 1960s technology is at the frontier of space exploration
In February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars, fitted with a suite of seven instruments designed to search for signs of past and present life. Tereza Pultarova spoke to Paul Jerram, Chief Engineer at Teledyne e2v, about the CCD technology at the heart of two of these cutting-edge scientific devices.