It is never pleasant to focus on engineering industry shortcomings. However, when new aircraft fall out of the sky, with multiple fatalities the result, the ugly business of discovering the...
Planet Labs has launched 146 satellites into space — officially it's the largest fleet of satellites in human history. The company began engineering the satellites with the intention of making...
Surely civil engineers who get to work on the world's largest and most up-and-coming vacation spots are the envy of their profession! South Korean (and Spanish) civil engineers will be...
Toshiba Corp and General Electric have unveiled the robot that will again try to achieve what no robot has been able to accomplish before it; locating and removing the spent,...
South Africa's energy utility is in dire straits. On the 11th of February 2019, the utility's engineers implemented Stage 4 load shedding on South Africa's main energy grid. Stage 4...
Today is International Women's Day. EIT is celebrating the women who are currently filling positions in the engineering industry across the globe. However, most experts are cognizant that more needs...
In the United States, the Midwest and Northeast have shivered their way through a winter they won't forget. They are calling it the coldest temperatures in a generation. If boiling...
Industrial automation can transform the landscape of a country's workforce and economy. Countries are transitioning from mining economies, into manufacturing economies with the sometimes unseen fourth industrial revolution's slow march....
Universal access to clean drinking water is a challenge our world continues to face. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home....
Making computers think like humans is undeniably the next frontier that scientists and engineers are to trying to reach. However, machine learning, a field of computer science that programs computers...
The prototype of the world's longest aircraft is being retired, with new aircraft innovation promised to hit the market soon. The aircraft in question was the Airlander 10: a weirdly...
India's most famous civil engineer, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, once said: ‘Work is worship.' Gustave Eiffel, the French civil engineer responsible for the Eiffel Tower, said: “Can one think that because...
