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Quarterly magazine relaunched

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 24, 2005

Ingenia - The Royal Academy of Engineering's quarterly magazine - has been relaunched with a new look and a new editorial focus on getting to the heart of a wide range of issues.

Ingenia - The Royal Academy of Engineering's quarterly magazine - has been relaunched with a new look and a new editorial focus on getting to the heart of a wide range of issues.

With a General Election looming, the major political parties outline their agendas for UK engineering.

Contributions are included from: Stephen O'Brien MP (Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Industry), Martin O'Neill MP (senior Labour MP and Chair of the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee) and Malcolm Bruce MP (Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry).

The Government's Chief Scientist, Sir David King, looks at the critical challenges facing UK engineering and the Director General of the Research Councils, Sir Keith O'Nions, explains where the money to address them is coming from.

In "There's more to life than being an engineer", Academy President Lord Broers talks about life, technology and giving this year's BBC Reith Lectures on the theme of "The triumph of technology".

With Britain bidding to host the 2012 Olympic games, Ingenia takes a look at the challenges involved in designing stadia - the colossuses of the structural world in "On the shoulders of giants".

Imperial College researchers update a seminal paper written 55 years ago to show how some modern transport is super-efficient but our need for speed has left other forms more gas-guzzling than ever in "What price speed - revisited".

Professor Will Stewart contests that engineering ability is at the core of the human condition in "Engineering makes you human".

The risks of nanotechnology - from the insurer's perspective are explored in "Small matter, many unknowns".

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