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The equivalent of US$2.2 million in funding has been given to an initiative at the University of Sheffield that pertains to energy storage. The energy storage solution being funded could lead to sustainable energy for the railway business. The project is called the TransEnergy project and is collaborating with National Rail, a partnership...Read More

In the fourth industrial revolution, everything is connected to one network that is usually operated by cloud-based services. The problem is that cyber threat then becomes a real problem, due to hackers finding their way into networks and causing real problems for automated factories and industrial complexes that utilize the...Read More

Engineers have discovered a method of doubling Wi-Fi speeds at Columbia University. At the steering wheel of the discovery is Harish Krishnaswamy, an electrical engineering graduate who has utilized one antenna that doubles the speed of Wi-Fi says, "This technology could revolutionize the field of telecommunications."  The work has been...Read More

Engineers have discovered a method of doubling Wi-Fi speeds at Columbia University. At the steering wheel of the discovery is Harish Krishnaswamy, an electrical engineering graduate who has utilized one antenna that doubles the speed of Wi-Fi says, "This technology could revolutionize the field of telecommunications."  The work has been...Read More

Students from Rice University in Houston Texas have created a device that 3D printed prosthetic hands can grip onto so that the team can measure the force of the hands. The group has given the project a nickname: Carpel Diem. The all-female team initially wanted to create their own prosthetic hands but...Read More

Chung Hyuk Park is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering that has morphed mechanical, electrical and computer engineering into his career as well. The end result? A soccer playing robot that would be able to interact with autistic children. The robot has been designed to interact with children and communicate...Read More

Engineering and entrepreneurship. Some students might say that those sound like two different degrees if considered in a tertiary context. However, more and more educators and opinion makers are encouraging engineers to embrace entrepreneurship. MIT is the first to raise the concern of engineers without entrepreneurship skills. Therefore, they have...Read More

A group of female engineering students from Glasgow University are heading to Rwanda, Africa, to hand over the flame of education to girls who are interested in pursuing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) degrees.  One of the students involved, Ellen Simmons, said: "It is usually when pupils get to about...Read More

In March, it was widely reported that the mining industry was losing jobs globally. According to a Quarterly Employment Survey observed by PoliticsWeb in South Africa, 29,000 miners lost their jobs between December 2014 and December 2015. In the United States, 12,400 mining jobs were lost in March 2016 alone...Read More

Bath University in the United Kingdom is one of the leading universities internationally recognized for teaching and research. Dr. Manuch Soleimani works in the department of electronic and electrical engineering, at the helm of a Shell-Thick project that researches steel solidification.  The methods they are working on would refine the...Read More