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A Bright Future: How Chemicals Drive the Way We Display Information

Imagine a world where your mobile phone display is soft tailored into your shirt sleeve or where your office window blind is instantly transformed into a giant interactive display screen. This paper discusses and provides information on how the possibilities of organic polymer light emitting diodes PLEDs are becoming a...

Tags: diode, polymer, chemicals, light-emitting diode, mobile phone, mobile, phone

White papers 2004-05-11

Exciting Innovations for the Spinally Injured

Spinal injury can be devastating, resulting, as it often does, in some paralysis and loss of sensation. Engineering plays an important role in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. This paper surveys current research into the uses of functional electrical stimulation to improve the quality of life of spinally injured people. Touching...

Tags: survey

White papers 2004-02-23

Engineering and the Artist's Eye: Painting and Graphic Arts

Creativity and engineering frequently go hand in hand, but not always for aesthetic reasons. This paper provides details on artistically inspiring engineering achievements, from steam trains to skyscrapers, and on the unique relationship between artist and engineer. The emergence of industrialization and of engineering as a profession paralleled that of...

Tags: Royal Academy Of Engineering, Engineering, Artist

White papers 2004-02-20

The Future of Engineering Research

Engineering research plays a pivotal role in our knowledge-driven society. It lays the foundation for the advances in technology that fuel economic development and improves our quality of life. Past years have witnessed significant changes within the UK engineering research community. Industry, responding to competitive cost pressures, has dismantled many...

Tags: small and medium enterprise, outsourcing, industry

White papers 2003-08-01

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Premier Farnell Group Announces International Panel of Expert Judges for the 2008 Live EDGE Electronic Design Competition for the Global Environment

LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - The Competition Provides a Forum Where Electronic Design Engineers and Students can Design Products That are Environmentally Friendly Using Electronic Components. Premier Farnell plc , the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, today announced...

Articles 2008-06-24

McLaren boss awarded Prince Philip Medal.

McLaren team boss Ron Dennis may not have enjoyed 2007 all that much, but received a welcome boost after Sunday's disappointing Canadian Grand Prix when he was awarded the prestigious Prince Philip Medal by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The presentation came at a ceremony hosted by The...

Articles 2008-06-11

Touch Bionics wins the 2008 MacRobert Award - i-LIMB Hand recognised as the leading engineering innovation of the year

LIVINGSTON, Scotland, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Touch Bionics, developer of the world's first commercially available bionic hand, announced today that the team behind the development of the i-LIMB Hand has won the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK's premier award for innovation in engineering. ...

Articles 2008-06-10

Advance Nanotech's Owlstone Subsidiary Selected as One of Four Finalists in The 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Awards Competition

NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advance Nanotech, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: AVNA) , announced today that its Owlstone Nanotech Inc. subsidiary has been selected as one of four finalists for the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK's premier award for innovation in engineering. HRH...

Articles 2008-05-22

Design Matters: The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design

Design Matters: The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design. James Armstrong. Springer Science + Business Media, 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013. 2008. 164 pages. $79.95. ISBN 978-1-84628-391-8. According to author James Armstrong, design is the essential component of engineering. This book demonstrates the need to understand the...

Articles 2008-05-01

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW

Scion of a map-making dynasty Only those who have experienced it themselves can appreciate what it means to be born into a dynasty. Six generations of the Bartholomew family, culminating in John Bartholomew (John Christopher Bartholomew, or "JCB") and his younger brothers Peter and Robert, built the...

Articles 2008-02-19

# The write stuff: how to enter your article in this year's

Today, we launch the third Independent/Bosch Technology Horizons Award for young writers, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The competition centres on how engineers are at the forefront of change throughout the world. Entrants, in two age categories (14 to 24), are invited to write articles...

Articles 2007-10-04

Caro conjures the world anew

Visual arts Anthony Caro: Galvanised Sculptures Annely Juda Fine Art London Anthony Caro has been at the forefront of British sculpture for more than 50 years and despite having passed his 80th birthday has, for the last five years,...

Articles 2007-09-26

QATAR - Qatar's Decision Makers - Hamad Background.

Hamad bin Khalifa was born in Doha in 1950 as the first son of Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani. He studied in Qatar before entering the British Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where he graduated in 1971 as a lieutenant colonel. That was months before his father took...

Articles 2007-09-17

Employers back new engineering diplomas.

M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2007-UK Government: Employers back new engineering diplomasC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24072007 Ed Balls today welcomed support for the new engineering diploma - being introduced next year - from major employers including British Gas, JCB, RWE npower, and The...

Articles 2007-07-24

Writing society's wrongs

This year young people were given the chance to imagine how modern technology could make the world a better place in the award organised by The Independent, Bosch and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The winners, whose essays are printed on this page, had suggestions to solve global warming by,...

Articles 2007-07-19

Rugged men, ragged rocks - and all just five hours from the Louvre

Impressionists by the Sea Royal Academy LONDON You may well not associate the names "Bognor" and "Eastbourne" with the word "modern", as British resorts conjure up visions of maiden aunts and tea on the prom. This...

Articles 2007-07-08

BP enters into two new next-generation biofuel ventures

The chief scientist for British oil major BP attested to the company's commitment to next-generation biofuels in comments before the Royal Academy of Engineering in London last week. For the past four years, BP has been working with DuPont to develop biobutanol, which it says is more easily...

Articles 2007-06-18

Transitive® Software Development Innovation Recognized With Selection as 2007 Finalist for MacRobert Award

Evaluation Committee from The Royal Academy of Engineering Nominates Transitive for the UK's Premier Award for Innovation in Engineering LONDON -- Transitive[R] Limited, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, has been selected as a 2007 Finalist for...

Articles 2007-06-07

PSE Wins Prestigious MacRobert Award

Modelling Technology Company Brings Innovative Software to the Process Industries LONDON -- London-based Process Systems Enterprise PSE, provider of the gPROMS advanced process simulation and modelling environment, was today announced as this year's winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering's PS50,000 MacRobert Award. The award, the...

Articles 2007-06-06

International Risk Research Strategy & Funding Needed for Nanotech Safety.

WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- - Uncertainty Will Hamper Nanotechnology Commercialization Today, the Council for Science and Technology -- the British government's top-level advisory body on science and technology issues -- criticized the slow progress being made in providing needed...

Articles 2007-03-27