Contents

Ingenia - Issue 37, Dec 2008

Editorial

Engineering us through the 2008 crash

Dr Scott Steedman FREng

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Opinion

Engineering in government

Professor John Beddington FRS

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Letters

Response to broadband in the UK; Response to Palme D'Or; Technology Strategy Board

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Sponsors

ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Mott MacDonald, Rolls-Royce plc

The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia: ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Mott MacDonald, Rolls-Royce plc

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In Brief

Shetland moves towards a hydrogen dream; A towering event; ‘Careers In’ Engineering; Addendum; Chair, Emerging Technologies; Stem subjects strengthened

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Profile

Creating silent skies -
Professor Dame Ann Dowling CBE

Michael Kenward OBE

Professor Dowling’s career began working with Concorde and has moved on to working on sustainable urban development.

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Articles

Capital engineers

Boris Johnson

The Mayor of London on the role engineers and engineering have in improving London’s infrastructure.

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The demand for HD TV

Dr David Harrison

How the increasing demand for high-definition television is being compressed to fit onto existing broadcasting networks

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A cool biorepository

Justin Owen

How engineering behind the 2008 MacRobert Award finalist helped create a reliable storage facility at - 80°C for millions of biological samples.

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Forensics of knife crime

Dr Sarah Hainsworth

Can forensic engineering help produce data that will change the way we think about knives as weapons?

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Force protection

Major Sean Matten

Creating protective barriers for allied forces in Afghanistan and Iraq

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A conversation with Dr Mo Ibrahim

The Sudanese-born British entrepreneur talks to Sir Alan Rudge FREng on founding the world’s largest annual prize and bringing mobile telecommunications to Africa.

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Bio-inspired technologies

Professor Christofer Toumazou FREng FRS

Advances in the use of silicon semiconductor technology to replace and monitor biological functions and other research being conducted by the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

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Innovation Watch -

The smallest television screen in the world
Engineers have developed a fully functional miniature screen that measures the size of a thumbnail.

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