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Home-made electronics prove key to lockdown mental health for 2.5M makers, says national research

Winners of Engineering for People Design Challenge 2020 announced by Engineers Without Borders UK

EPDT's H2 2020 IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement now available online

EPDT July 2020 issue (inc. Embedded & Mil/Aero features + IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement) now available online

LIVE & updated! All the latest EPDT COVID-19 electronics industry news & stories...

Big Bang is back! Only this time, it's going digital...

- Editor's comment: How COVID-19 is impacting UK manufacturing... (02/07/2020)
  
  As the nation takes its first tentative steps to restart the economy, many are wondering what life after lockdown will look like: what will change & what will stay the same? As I pondered these questions while writing my column this month, I was invited to attend an online press event featuring a panel of industrial experts discussing the effects of this COVID-19 pandemic on UK manufacturing...
- Editorial: How COVID-19 is accelerating IoT & Industry 4.0… (02/07/2020)
  
  Since IIoT remains a hot topic for our sector – as electronics, sensing, intelligence & connectivity continue to proliferate throughout consumer & industrial products, systems & infrastructure – EPDT continues to cover it in this IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement. Let’s consider how COVID-19 is accelerating adoption of IoT & Industry 4.0…
- STEM Matters: Celebrating the #DifferenceMakers (02/07/2020)
  
  After celebrating its 149th anniversary on 17th May 2020, the IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) has kickstarted the countdown to its 150th anniversary with the launch of its #DifferenceMakers campaign.
- Testing hidden tech for use in North America (01/07/2020)
  
  Hidden technology encompasses everything from wireless chargers to watches that track steps & monitor heart rate, interactive mirrors that aid work outs, smart utility meters, NFC (near field communication) contactless payment systems and vehicles that unlock by proximity to the key. The common characteristic is that the true functionality of the technology remains hidden.
- Case study: Developing military oscillators… (01/07/2020)
  
  Over the years, UK-based manufacturer of quartz crystals, oscillators, filters & frequency components to the electronics manufacturing industry, Euroquartz has witnessed the demise of crystal manufacturing in the UK as, one by one, other companies have closed production facilities. Read how Euroquartz followed a different approach to maintain an ITAR-free, UK-manufactured source of surface mount military clock oscillators.
- Guest blog from new DPA Assistant Editor: Coal & COVID-19 – The road to recovery... (01/07/2020)
  
  Read this guest blog from new Assistant Editor over at sister title, DPA, Sophia Bell on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the environment.
- £6.5m boost for SME manufacturers looking to recover from COVID-19 impact (30/06/2020)
  
  Small to medium-sized (SME) manufacturers across England have been given a £6.5m funding boost, via the Manufacturing Growth Programme, to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic & address key barriers to growth.
- Developing skills for a low carbon future in the North West of England (26/06/2020)
  
  Manchester Metropolitan university to lead clean energy skills project that aims to define & develop the skills needed by the future workforce, if the North West is to successfully decarbonise.
- Brexit disruption in #UKMFG sector will have sizable impact on UK economy, new report finds (24/06/2020)
  
  Brexit will have significant adverse effects on a UK manufacturing sector currently highly integrated with the EU single market, and that disruption will have sizeable negative impacts on the wider UK economy, a new report by independent academic research group, UK in a Changing Europe finds.

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