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The EIT remote and virtual lab platform The EIT lab hosting platform, Electromeet, connects students with lab computers in real time using TeamViewer software. Once connected, students will have access to a wide range of engineering software and connected hardware, which will be used in practical assessments throughout their course....Read More

The EIT remote and virtual lab platform The EIT lab hosting platform, Electromeet, connects students with lab computers in real time using TeamViewer software. Once connected, students will have access to a wide range of engineering software and connected hardware, which will be used in practical assessments throughout their course....Read More

At the foot of the pyramids of Giza, a new museum is taking shape. Five thousand Egyptian civil engineers are hard at work to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum. Construction began 16 years ago, and the doors are expected finally to open in early 2019. One of the firms attached...Read More

Mechanical engineers are flexing their eco-friendly and business savvy muscles in the startup industry. Pratheek Palanethra was a mechanical engineering student in Bengaluru and is also passionate about cricket. During his student years - studying for his Master of Technical Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania – he was sad...Read More

As 2018 comes to a close, the industrial automation market is preparing to further digitize and automate industries into 2019. McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reports that by 2030 about 15 percent of workers around the world will be displaced by automation. However, they also note that employees are unaware that...Read More

Is the move to electric vehicles on track? Last year the UK government pledged that the manufacture of petrol and diesel cars would cease by 2040. In July, they then amended their pledge to also exclude hybrids (cars powered by electricity and petrol/diesel).  MPs in the United Kingdom are, however,...Read More

At this year's Dutch Design Week, the world's first 3D printed stainless steel bridge was unveiled. The bridge was produced by a Dutch robotics company named MX3D. It will serve as a crossing over one of Amsterdam's oldest and most famous canals, the Oudezijds Achterburgwal. Its construction utilized optimization software...Read More

Rolls-Royce and Intel have joined forces to develop an Intelligent Awareness System for future autonomous shipping projects. The first entirely unmanned, crewless ships, with the self-sailing tech, are set to hit the oceans in 2025. Inevitably, they will see crewed vessels working alongside them. Don’t assume that this technology has...Read More

Innovation is sometimes all talk and no action. What actually gets engineers inventing and creating novel solutions to everyday problems? Handsome rewards, of course. The James Dyson Award is an international design competition that ‘celebrates, encourages and inspires the designers of new problem-solving ideas.' A curious advent of engineering design...Read More

Both men recently visited a number of countries, taking with them the passion for education and engineering that marks the Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT). They have travelled to share the opportunities EIT offers students who want to further their engineering studies, or who dream of becoming engineers - online...Read More