Engineering & Management

10 Feb 23

UK Ventilator Challenge revisited: what must we learn to address net zero?

Engineering & Management

I recently had an inspiring chat over coffee with Dick Elsy CBE, chairman of AB Dynamics, whom I was privileged to support during VCUK, the 2020 UK Ventilator Challenge established in response to the Prime Minister’s urgent call for additional ventilators to cope with Covid. Happening around the same time…

18 Jan 23

Skills shortages, big tech layoffs and rising engineering salaries

Engineering & Management

What career did your old school have in mind for you? Younger readers may well have been told about IT or engineering but I’ll bet fewer of our older readers were. Did your careers advisor even know what engineering is – what it really is. And that’s not the technician…

18 Jan 23

Traceability, productivity and sustainability, with a digital MIS

Engineering & Management

It’s a scary statistic that around 50% of a building’s total embodied carbon is specified during Stage Two of the RIBA Plan of Works (PoW): Concept Design. While this is a significant amount, structural and civil engineers are already taking the steps needed to make a change at this construction…

10 Oct 22

Book review: ‘Positive People Leadership’ by Nigel Rowe

Engineering & Management

Not many of us will have sufficient spirit of inquiry to work out how many bosses we’ve reported to in our careers. But Nigel Rowe has, and as his debut book ‘Positive People Leadership’ (The Book Guild, £9.99, ISBN 9781914471704) posits, there’s a lot to be learned from such data.…

30 Sep 22

How turning bugs into benefits can help tackle recruitment problems

Engineering & Management

Results of the IET’s most recent annual skills survey, published in December 2021, suggest that almost half (49 per cent) of UK firms are experiencing problems because of the shortage of skilled people in the market. Aside from fighting it out with the competition by offering higher pay, and more…

07 Sep 22

View from India: Optimise gender diversity and gender parity for better business

Engineering & Management

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in compliance with the Companies Act 2013, made it compulsory to have at least one woman on a board from October 2014. While most of the top 1,000 listed companies have complied with SEBI’s directive, boards still have a long way…

05 Sep 22

View from India: Boardrooms benefit from female input

Engineering & Management

European countries lead in appointing women as directors on a company’s board. Recently the European Union (EU) states have set the ball rolling. They’ve given initial approval to a directive requiring firms listed on EU stock exchanges to appoint women for at least 40 per cent of non-executive director roles…

30 Aug 22

Second jobs, pub closures and small businesses squeezed as energy prices surge

Engineering & Management

It has also been revealed that small businesses in the UK are owed on average almost £23,000 from overdue invoices - a 6 per cent year-on-year rise - as customers and suppliers try to delay payment for as long as possible, feeling the pinch in their own cashflow. Rising energy…

28 Jul 22

eGuide, delivering exceptional resilience for extraordinary care

Engineering & Management

Extreme weather, cyberattacks, and epidemics place tremendous strain on healthcare facilities. While it may not be possible to predict the next catastrophic event, it is possible to plan for it. Download this eGuide to explore the solutions that can help prepare for and respond to unforeseen events - without disrupting…

Engineering & Management

UK Ventilator Challenge revisited: what must we learn to address net zero?

Skills shortages, big tech layoffs and rising engineering salaries

Traceability, productivity and sustainability, with a digital MIS

Book review: ‘Positive People Leadership’ by Nigel Rowe

How turning bugs into benefits can help tackle recruitment problems

View from India: Optimise gender diversity and gender parity for better business

View from India: Boardrooms benefit from female input

Second jobs, pub closures and small businesses squeezed as energy prices surge

Sponsored: Making critical power distribution safer, more reliable and more sustainable

eGuide, delivering exceptional resilience for extraordinary care

Electronic skin can self-heal after a cut, researchers find

IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

3 stories of founders building apps for the LGBTQ+ community

5 ways you can personalize your smartwatch with Wear OS

Here’s how Unilever is harnessing AI to innovate your favourite products