Showing 124 articles for: Research and Development
The afro hair comb inspired by printing
Dr Youmna Mouhamad used her real-world experience to develop an innovative comb for detangling textured hair.
Creating a virtual replica
Stuart Nathan
Engineers use digital twins, virtual replicas of a physical object or system, to monitor bridges’ performance and grow underground crops.
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The Mayflower sails again
Neil Cumins
A fully autonomous vessel is sailing from Plymouth to the US, gathering data about plastic pollution, global warming and marine life.
Delivering fast-track COVID-19 vaccines
Rachel Jones
Manufacturing and supply chains are preparing to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine after an accelerated development process.
Composites take off
Michael Kenward OBE
Bombardier won the 50th anniversary MacRobert Award for engineering innovation with its innovative composite carbon fibre wings for the Airbus A220.
Chips that changed the classroom
Michael Kenward OBE, Dr Eben Upton CBE and Dr Andrew Herbert OBE FREng
The Raspberry Pi has won the MacRobert Award 2017 for its innovative pocket-sized computer, which has changed how people are learning about coding.
Professor Neville Jackson FREng - Thinking about the revolutions
Michael Kenward OBE
Professor Neville Jackson FREng joined Ricardo when he completed university. For more than three decades, he has helped the company to stay at the cutting-edge of engineering technologies.
Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng - Forging links between academia and industry
Michael Kenward OBE
For Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng, materials science has been a common theme in a career that has taken in the academic world at all levels, along with time in the higher echelons of corporate engineering.
Turbulent politics put a premium on research impact
Professor Graeme Reid
The political landscape in the UK, and the rest of the world, is changing, and with it, so do policies relating to education and research
Going for gold
Professor Tony Purnell
The engineering that played a role in Team GB’s cycling success at the 2016 Rio Olympics was a team effort, and helped the athletes increase their speed to break a number of world records.