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Victorien Erussard, an offshore racer and Merchant Navy officer has taken to the seas aboard the latest marvel of engineering. He has set aside six years of his life to travel around the world in a boat that will not generate any carbon. Source: http://www.energy-observer.org 50 engineers, designers and naval...Read More

More engineering industry jobs are coming to South Africa. That is, if the country’s brand new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is to be believed. Much like in the United States, the new sitting president is promising the renewed strengthening of manufacturing and mining jobs - whilst promising that the Fourth Industrial...Read More

The world is still looking for the most effective way of educating and training people. Privately owned universities and institutions are keeping their eyes on initiatives in the business sector. Source: Foter.com Universities are looking towards the most efficiently built organizations of the last decade, noticing how they have construed...Read More

Governments may be responsible for the slowing down of technological progress around the world. Government shutdowns and Presidents who refuse to leave their seats despite alarming corruption scandals impact negatively on the advancement of technology in their countries. Puerto Rico, devastated by a hurricane in 2017, only now, over 140...Read More

Chances are, if you live in the colder countries of the world, you’ve had to de-ice something in your life. De-icing is critical - the safety and usability of an engineered product often depends on it. Engineering in the aviation industry is a point in case. Airports are an interdisciplinary...Read More

From the 9th to the 25th February this year the world will have access to a visual buffet of snow sports; the Winter Olympics is to be hosted by South Korea’s PyeongChang. Fans around the world will be cheering on their respective countries’ athletes. Also to be lauded, however, are...Read More

The Winter Olympics are upon us. The opening ceremony airs on February 9th, 2018. Over the course of the competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the feats of many engineers will be on display too. In fact it will be hard to find an event untouched by engineering. (Some of the...Read More

The future is yours for the taking. This good ole’ adage has driven many into PANIC MODE; there is undue stress for young people when it comes to picking a vocation. A fresh batch of school-leavers have just begun their academic year and many will have chosen the discipline of...Read More

New data generated from the U.S. Department of Transportation has revealed that more than 54,000 American bridges are structurally deficient. America has 612,677 bridges. Americans cross these bridges 174 million times daily. One in three bridges are in need of repair, and one in three Interstate highway bridges have also...Read More

It may be a landmark year for Indian engineering. This year, at the end of March, India’s Space Research Organization (ISRO) will land an unmanned rover on the moon. They will be sending an orbiter, a lander, and a rover in what it is being called the Chandrayaan-2 mission. Directly...Read More