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• Materials Testing 2017

  23-06-2017 17:58
  
  International Centre, Telford, UK5-7 September
  Materials Testing – the world’s most comprehensive exhibition of non-destructive testing (NDT), materials testing, condition monitoring and diagnostic technologies – returns this year with a new range of features and industry speakers.
  Materials Testing 2017 will take place from 5-7 September in Telford, UK and will showcase the latest innovations from companies around the world.The show comes at an exciting time fo
  
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• Optical phased array replaces camera lens

  23-06-2017 17:08 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  California Institute of Technology creates a planar optical phased array that can form images without a lens.
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• Entrepreneur hits the right notes with Soundbops

  23-06-2017 16:22
  
  Michael Tougher, CEO of Spark and Rocket, was named the ‘brightest young engineering entrepreneur’ last year in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Launchpad Competition. Here he talks about how he’s bringing his product to market, and lessons learned since graduating with an idea and the desire to succeed in 2015.
  How did you get started?
  I always knew I wanted to be an inventor. Even as a child, I was always making things. Couple that with a musical upbringing and a love
  
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• Liquid metal makes flexible heat harvester reliable

  23-06-2017 15:24 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Using liquid metal connections, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester. The proof-of-concept is intended to provide energy for wearables. “We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency,” said Professor Mehmet Ozturk. “Using ...
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• AMRC develops world’s most accurate large volume machining robot

  23-06-2017 12:21
  
  The most accurate large volume machining robot in the world is being developed in the UK.The highly accurate robot milling system could take some of the workload off expensive machine tools, alleviating a bottleneck on the production line, its developers say.
  Researchers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, with support from the Aerospace Technology Initiative (ATI), have modified an off-the-shelf KUKA Titan robot to develop the robotic millin
  
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• Design engineering plots course to redress gender imbalance

  23-06-2017 12:04
  
  To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2017, Dr Leila Sheldrick considers design engineering’s role in encouraging more women to study engineering.
  When I started my undergraduate degree in 2003 I was one of only seven women in a class of 50. It’s an experience many will recognise, and even today many engineering courses have a stark gender imbalance.
  Yet this autumn when our new undergraduate students turn up for The Dyson School of Design Engineering’s 2017 MEng Desig
  
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• ‘Moth eye’ structure banishes reflections from display surface

  23-06-2017 11:59 via electronicsweekly.com
  Moth eyes have once again been the inspiration for an anti-reflection coating, this time at the University of Central Florida where anti-reflection of <0.23% luminous reflectance and <1% haze has been achieved with “indistinguishable image quality deterioration”, according to the researchers. Unlike multi-layered anti-reflection coatings, this one is inherently broadband, and works at a wide ...
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• Engineering leaders call for action over lack of women in sector

  23-06-2017 11:47 via electronicsweekly.com
  Leaders of the UK’s top engineering businesses are calling for urgent action on tackling the sector’s shortage of women at an event to mark today’s International Women in Engineering day.
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• JTAG Technologies module brings PXI into play for hi-rel test

  23-06-2017 11:20 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  JTAG Technologies has introduced a JTAG/boundary-scan test hardware interface for multiple interconnects in ATE systems using MAC Panel connection systems. The module provides an interface between the test firm’s PXI and PXIe DataBlasters to the MAC panel ‘Scout’ connection system. Designated JT 2147/eDAK, the module employs the firm’s QuadPod active interface. It provides four independent ...
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• Roma the engineer wins top academy Award

  23-06-2017 10:59
  
  Engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal has won one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s most prestigious awards in recognition of her tireless efforts to promote careers in the profession.The Rooke Award for public promotion of engineering, named after industrialist and past Academy President Sir Denis Rooke, honours people who have brought engineering to life for the public.
  Previous winners include TV engineering experts Professor Danielle George and Professor Mark Miodownik FREng.
  Agraw
  
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• Proof-of-concept points to flexible wearables

  23-06-2017 10:59
  
  Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that could rival the effectiveness of existing wearable electronic devices that use body heat as an energy source.In the proof-of-concept study from North Carolina State University (NC State), researchers acknowledge that the performance and efficiency of flexible devices is inferior to rigid devices, which are used to monitor a variety of health and environmental measures.
  “We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric har
  
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• Women engineers can reap future rewards

  23-06-2017 10:00
  
  Women engineers have a key role in helping to bridge the UK’s burgeoning skills gap 
  Over the years, the UK has been hailed as the ‘workshop of the world’ and a world leader in engineering and innovation. But despite this history of success, today it has the lowest percentage of female engineering professionals in Europe. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, women still only make up around just 8 per cent of engineers.
  This is at a time
  
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• Promoted content: Protect your instrumentation with software

  23-06-2017 10:00
  
  By Adri Kruger, LabVIEW Product Manager
  For over 50 years, test engineers have been taking a PC-based approach to automating stand-alone instrumentation. With so much investment tied up in capital assets for test equipment, engineers are looking for reassurance that they can satisfy current and future testing needs. While capital expenditure on hardware is often the easiest cost to associate with test, the importance of a good software investment is commonly overlooked. Instrumentation wil
  
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• ST to raise $1.5bn

  23-06-2017 09:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  ST is to raise $1.5 billion in a convertible bond issue. The company will also redeem its 2019 convertible bonds and buy back shares. The new bonds will mature in five and seven years. The five year bonds will not pay interest. The seven year bonds will pay interest of 0.5%. Settlement is expected to ...
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• Wearables on a roll, says IDC

  23-06-2017 08:48 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  125.5 million wearable devices will be shipped this year, says IDC, marking a 20.4% increase from the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016. IDC expects the  wearables market will nearly double before reaching a total of 240.1 million units shipped in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of 18.2%. Watches: IDC  anticipates that watches will account ...
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• EPYC enthuses AMD investors

  23-06-2017 08:14 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  AMD’s EPYC server chip is driving a rise in AMD shares. EPYC out-performs Intel’s server processors in performance and power and has managed to create an EPYC ecosystem containing server OEMs, ODMs and cloud infrastructure providers. EPYC, which is a scaled up version of its PC CPU Ryzen, beats Intel’s best server processor in memory ...
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• Infineon extends PROFET power switch family

  23-06-2017 07:38 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Based on its SMART7 thin wafer process , Infineon has introduced  two high-side power switch families PROFET+2 and High Current PROFET. The SPOC+2 multichannel SPI high-side power controllers will follow within a year. “In this decade, we have delivered one billion PROFET+ switches, the predecessor family to PROFET+2,” says Infineon vp Andreas Doll, “the SMART7 ...
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