Contents
Ingenia - Issue 68, September 2016
In brief
Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, Engineering award winners, Living without electricity report, The UK STEM education landscape, Bridge building in Rwanda, UK student wins international engineering prize, British rocket propels Juno to Jupiter
Letters
Assuring safety and security in RAS, The future of energy storage
Martyn Thomas CBE FREng and Dr Jill Cainey
Professor David Lane CBE FREng rightly emphasises the need to build public trust in these systems (‘Robotics and autonomous systems – affecting everything that moves’, Ingenia 67).
Opinion
Broadband needs its champions
Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng
Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng, founder of several telecoms businesses, maintains that any strategy to deliver universal broadband has to jump from a high cost/low demand model to low cost/high demand.
Profile
Energy with connections
Steve Holliday FREng
When Steve Holliday FREng moved from the oil industry into energy distribution, the sector was seen as staid.
Against the tide
Geoff Watts and Daniel Sharp
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s new Shannon-class lifeboat has been designed and manufactured to be faster, safer and more manouverable than existing vessels
Broadband in the backwaters: rural Britain's fight for faster internet
Sarah Griffiths
Communities living in some parts of rural Britain are engineering their own solutions to combat the problem of inadequate broadband connections
In deep water: the UK's first subsea-to-shore gas plant
Nicholas Newman and David Hainsworth
The development and building of the Shetland Gas Plant was the UK’s largest construction project since the London 2012 Olympics
Intelligent prosthetics
Richard Gray and Professor Saeed Zahedi OBE FREng
Blatchford has been awarded the 2016 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for its prosthetic limb with smart robotics
INNOVATION WATCH - Delivering clean cold and power
Dearman
Global technology company Dearman has developed a family of engines that uses liquid air to deliver zeroemission power and cooling.
HOW DOES THAT WORK? - Toughened glass
Tempering the glass to compress the outer surface and expand the inner layers balances the tension in the glass to make it tougher.
Editorial Board
The members of the Ingenia editorial board
Editor-in-Chief | Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng | |
Managing Editor | Gemma Hummerston | |
Editorial Board | Professor John Burland CBE FREng FRS Derek Hanson FREng Michael Kenward OBE Professor David Delpy FREng FMedSci FRS John Loughhead OBE FREng Dr Ian Nussey OBE FREng Professor William Stewart FREng Professor Liz Tanner OBE FREng FRSE Professor William Webb FREng |
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Director of Policy and External Affairs | Beverley Parkin |