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Catapult centres
Stephen Harris
What the centres do and how they have been received by the research and business communities.
Biochemical Engineering
Stephen Vranch FREng and Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker FREng
Medical researchers working on a variety of diseases can tackle them through the use of a new generation of medicines that utilise the very specific biological actions of certain large molecules
Global Grand Challenges Summit; Smart buildings report; Mini Maker Faire; SET for Britain winner; Great British innovations
In Brief: short articles and engineering news
Seeking the Higgs boson
Steve Myers FREng
A hardware failure shut the Large Hadron Collider down for more than a year before the engineering programme to restore it led to last summer’s discovery of the Higgs boson
Sir David McMurtry FREng FRS - Turning patents into profits
Michael Kenward OBE
In coming up with a solution that helped aircraft to take off McMurtry also launched a business that has transformed modern manufacturing.
Richard Parry-Jones CBE FREng - Not the retiring type
Michael Kenward OBE
After a 38-year career spanning R&D, technology and manufacturing leadership at Ford, Parry-Jones is now bringing his expertise to Network Rail in his new role as Chairman.
Brompton Folding Bikes
Will Butler-Adams
From its start with handmade prototypes to becoming the largest-volume bicycle manufacturer in the UK, Brompton Bicycle Ltd has become a manufacturing success story through engineering
Design Winner
Emily Bick
Design team Barber Osgerby worked with UK engineering companies to develop a lightweight, functional, safe and memorable Olympic Torch for London 2012
Knowledge transfer success
Emily Bick
An innovative plastics recycling process has resulted from collaborations between businesses and academic institutions
Computer Vision Advances
Dr Andrew Fitzgibbon and Dr Jamie Shotton
A look at the development behind the X-Boxthat has led to significant advances in controller-free computing