Cape Town, South Africa, may become the first modern city in the world to run out of water. This headline is being strewn across news networks around the world. Time...
China’s solar highway shut down by thieves A highway built out of robust solar panels that generate energy throughout the day has actually become a reality thanks to Chinese engineers....
The future of automation is set in stone. It seems clear that industrial robots will replace human beings on the assembly line inside most, if not all, factories in the...
Because they create solutions and solve problems Mechanical engineers develop processes and they design and implement the moving parts in a range of industries. They are needed on all stages...
Like water off of a duck’s back, Volkswagen’s Dieselgate controversy has not deterred consumers from buying their vehicles. Autoblog estimates that VW’s worldwide overall sales reached “around 10.7 million cars”...
A new year has arrived, and with it, new engineering challenges. As 2018 rolled in, so did incredible weather events in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. In the...
This is a message to EIT students - past, present and future: to those who want to qualify well and to those determined to benefit from their learning experiences generally....
It would not have been a pleasant break at the end of 2017 for those working in the power industry. General Electric (GE) is retrenching 12,000 employees from their electrical...
The people of London, England, are officially one year away from using a new underground railway. Crossrail is a new railway that links up to the renowned Elizabeth Line; since...
By now you might have noticed that voice recognition hardware and software are growing exponentially. Companies including Google, Amazon, and Apple are developing technologies that allow humans to access the...
The fourth industrial revolution is here, making us a part of the Internet of Things (IoT), whether we like it or not. Artificial intelligence, big data, data generating sensors, robotics...
Tire development has always formed a large chunk of the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) research. After all NASA has to put robust tires on the rovers...