Articles in this issue

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
Silver Medallists
The Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal recognises outstanding personal contributions by early- or mid-career engineers that have resulted in successful market exploitation.
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.
Board members for this issue are:
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 |
ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Rolls-Royce plc
The Royal Academy of Engineering acknowledges the generous support by the following organisations for Ingenia: ARUP, BAE Systems, Lloyd's Register, Rolls-Royce plc