Posted by Chris Rand.
Finding myself with an unexpected few hours in London last week, I decided to visit the Design Museum for the first time in several years. Unlike many major museums in the UK, the Design Museum is not funded by the taxpayer, so it’s already fighting an uphill battle to impress the visitor. Perversely though, because it costs seven pounds to get in, you expect more, not less. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
Another great bit of (serious) fun coming up is this year’s X Prize Cup, taking place in New Mexico, USA in October. The 2007 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge aims to develop technology for taking off and landing vertically on the Moon, and will be fascinating to (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
A survey issued this week from Girlguiding UK claims that careers advice for young women “remains strongly prejudiced by gender”. Some 35% of members aged 14-26 believe that “being female has influenced the types of careers they are encouraged to follow”. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
I’d like to welcome this week the many readers from our industrial health and safety publication, Industrialsafetytalk. We’ve decided to incorporate that specialist title into Engineeringtalk, as such a large part of its content was already being covered here in our more general context. With the web being so search-oriented these days, it doesn’t make sense to run the same news on more than one site. Most of the news from the Industrialsafetytalk site (going back several years) which we didn’t have on Engineeringtalk has been transferred over, and we hope that the Industrialsafetytalk email newsletter readers will still find the news they need in this broader-ranging publication. (more…)
Posted by Chris Rand.
We often discuss the problems in getting people into engineering (and keeping them there), but are the jobs available in the first place? It would seem so, according to a study issued yesterday by Mandis Business Intelligence. (more…)
Engineeringtalk and this Editor's Blog is now edited by Dave Wilson
Dave was the Editor of Digital Design, Electronic Systems Design and The OEM Integrator in the US between 1980 and 1990. More recently, he founded e4engineering (now The Engineer Online) at the start of 2000 and Technology Horizons in 2006, both for Centaur Media. His mood varies with the fortunes of the NASDAQ and Nikkei indices.
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