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Students tackle real-world space mission design at ESA Academy
In early April, 116 university students gathered across Europe to participate in the European Space Agency Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2025. Connecting three major European institutions, Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Cranfield University (UK) and the University of Aveiro (Portugal), alongside ESA’s own educational centre in Belgium, the event pushed students to design an ambitious interplanetary…
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TECHNOLOGY
Microrobot gets insect-inspired legs for soft touchdowns
Engineers in Harvard University’s Microrobotics Laboratory have equipped their tiny RoboBee flying robot with new landing gear inspired by the graceful landings of crane flies. The Harvard has…
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Autodesk’s State of Design & Make Report reveals AI skills are a top hiring priority
Autodesk has released its 2025 State of Design & Make report, exploring sentiments from leaders across design and make industries on managing cost control, embracing emerging technologies and…
Engineering students target invasive lionfish with underwater robotic device
A student design team in the College of Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia has developed an innovative device to help control invasive lionfish populations. Working under the…
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SUSTAINABILITY
Autodesk’s State of Design & Make Report reveals AI skills are a top hiring priority
Autodesk has released its 2025 State of Design & Make report, exploring sentiments from leaders across design and make industries on managing cost control, embracing emerging technologies and…
Engineering students target invasive lionfish with underwater robotic device
A student design team in the College of Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia has developed an innovative device to help control invasive lionfish populations. Working under the…
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Enel launches international wind turbine design contest
Italian energy company Enel has launched WinDesign, an international contest aimed at designing innovative wind turbines that are integrated with the surrounding environment and have minimal impact on…
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EDUCATION
Students tackle real-world space mission design at ESA Academy
In early April, 116 university students gathered across Europe to participate in the European Space Agency Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2025. Connecting three major European institutions, Politecnico di…
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‘Biomedical lab in a box’ empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
Through workshops based on a course, a team of researchers at MIT has developed a ‘biomedical lab in a box’ that they’ve used to give students in Kenya…
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Engineering students target invasive lionfish with underwater robotic device
A student design team in the College of Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia has developed an innovative device to help control invasive lionfish populations. Working under the…
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MATERIALS
Engineers reinvent ceramics with origami-inspired 3D printing
In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend…
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Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel
In a potential step towards sending small spacecraft to visit other stars, researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in…
MIT engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engine
A team of MIT engineers has developed a fully 3D-printed electrospray engine, a device that applies an electric field to a conductive liquid, generating a high-speed jet of…
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MEDICAL
‘Biomedical lab in a box’ empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
Through workshops based on a course, a team of researchers at MIT has developed a ‘biomedical lab in a box’ that they’ve used to give students in Kenya…
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Student-designed low-cost vibrotactile glove can help treat Parkinson’s disease
Two engineering students at Rice University in Houston have designed an affordable, wearable solution for reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The design of the vibrotactile glove created…
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Miniature rolling robot can take virtual biopsies from inside the body
Researchers at the Universities of Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh have developed a tiny magnetic robot that can take 3D scans from deep within the body, potentially revolutionising early…
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