The Engineer - Home
WEBCelebrating the very best in UK collaborations and innovations in engineering. Now in its ninth year, The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate awards (C2I) was established to uncover and celebrate great examples of technology-led engineering collaboration across a range of different disciplines and sectors. Enter the Awards.
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
WEBMar 2, 2022 · According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure. And whilst more than half of our respondents (56 per cent) have received a …
Superdielectrics storage tech hailed as precocious
WEBMar 7, 2024 · The Faraday 1 storage module - Superdielectrics. Hailed by the company as a significant breakthrough in storage, the aqueous polymer-based technology is claimed to already match the energy density of lead acid batteries, while charging 10 times faster. The polymer breakthrough is said to have emerged from an ongoing collaboration with ...
Articles - The Engineer
WEBAug 15, 2024 · November 1955: Calder Hall - the word's first nuclear power station. Jason Ford. 21 Nov 2023. Rail & marine.
Octopus raises the temperature with Cosy heat pump
WEBSep 15, 2023 · Customers who require new radiators, piping or a hot water tank should be able to adopt the system for a cost of around £3,000, according to Octopus. “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone,” Octopus Energy Group CEO and founder Greg Jackson said at the Energy Tech Summit in London, run in partnership with Wired.
How UK firm CloudNC is pioneering AI based manufacturing
WEBJul 5, 2019 · In-Depth. UK precision engineering firm CloudNC has introduced a pioneering new AI based approach to manufacturing. In this exclusive Q&A interview the company's CEO Theo Saville outlines the core technology and explains how the firm has built a brand new factory from the ground up. Chris Emery (CTO) …
Comment: Why battery power is the future for HGVs
WEBJun 29, 2021 · The future is battery electric. The technology has developed hugely, it’s now much more efficient, allowing trucks to cover hundreds of miles a day, and importantly for fleets the investment in battery-electric HGVs is returned in five years. What’s more, because duty cycles for HGVs typically work on fixed or point-to-point routes, and the ...
Solid foundation for offshore turbines - The Engineer
WEBNov 22, 2009 · The UK government has set a goal for the installation of approximately 6,000 offshore wind turbines by 2020. The Carbon Trust estimates the current cost of such a project is up to £75bn with deepwater foundations accounting for 20 per cent. The shortlisted designs were chosen because of their potential to …
The Engineer - Automotive
WEBTech to decarbonise cold chain logistics secures £17.3m investment. News. 29 Aug 2024.
Late great engineers: Archimedes of Syracuse - The Engineer
WEBMay 14, 2020 · Late great engineers: Archimedes of Syracuse. In-Depth. Remembered primarily for inventing a rudimentary screw pump, there is so much more to the Ancient Greek polymath Archimedes of Syracuse, the greatest scientist of antiquity, writes Nick Smith. Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287-212 BC), …