The 12th UK Altair Technology Conference, one of the UK engineering and design community’s the 'must attend' conferences, will be taking place at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire, on 24 May 2022. This year's conference, which is free to attend, will feature presentations from several leading manufacturers, including Jaguar Land Rover, JCB, BMW, Brompton … [Read more...] about Digital design event returns
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Terra Carta Design Lab announces inaugural winners
Wearables for cows and flying seed-delivery vehicles are among the winners of the inaugural Terra Carta Design Lab, which were announced on International Design Day. Four teams of Royal College of Art (RCA) students and alumni were selected from a total of 125 original submissions as the winners of the initiative, which was conceived by the RCA’s Royal Visitor HRH The Prince … [Read more...] about Terra Carta Design Lab announces inaugural winners
Bournemouth University students to celebrate Sunbeam land speed anniversary
A team of final-year students from Bournemouth University’s engineering programme is working with the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu to breathe new life into the legendary Sunbeam 1000hp, which became the first car to go faster than 200 miles per hour on 29 March 1927. The team hopes to make the car run for the first time in more than half a century to celebrate the 90th … [Read more...] about Bournemouth University students to celebrate Sunbeam land speed anniversary
Mechanical engineering students design underwater vacuum for collecting sea urchins
A team of students, known as the Urchin Merchants,from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed and built a large underwater vacuum for collecting purple sea urchins, which pose a significant threat to bull kelp forests along California’s coastline. Since 2014, 95 per cent of bull kelp beds off the coast of California have … [Read more...] about Mechanical engineering students design underwater vacuum for collecting sea urchins
Entries open for Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022
California-based technology company Keysight Technologies has announced the launch of the Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022, in which graduate and undergraduate students around the world are tasked with creating and securing an internet of things (IoT) device that will help the world reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Keysight is inviting students to design a device that’s … [Read more...] about Entries open for Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022