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Survey reveals biggest challenges facing electronic design businesses into 2020

Mind the skills gap: UK workers apathetic about learning new skills, according to CIMA research – despite threat to job security from automation

Tomorrow’s Engineers Week: EngineeringUK supports campaign to change the image of engineering

On #ThisisEngineering Day: AI reveals misrepresentation of engineers online

IET supports This Is Engineering Day to challenge public stereotype of engineering

- Electronics professionals identify their top design trends for 2020: extending battery life, 5G & sustainability (06/11/2019)
  
  Extending battery life, 5G & sustainability have been identified as the biggest trends driving electronic product design in 2020, according to new survey research conducted at this year’s Engineering Design Show by thermal simulation provider, 6sigmaET.
- Editor's comment: Made in 5G – industrial 5G for #UKMFG (04/11/2019)
  
  A few weeks ago, I attended an event to learn more about Digital Catapult’s Made in 5G report, its paper on “Industrial 5G” for the UK manufacturing sector.
- #TEWeek19: British engineers inspire new generation by focusing on nation’s health & wellbeing (04/11/2019)
  
  Engineers are key to helping the nation keep healthy & well – from helping find cures for cancer & keeping people safe at sea to helping dementia patients. Tomorrow’s Engineers Week this year is highlighting examples of #EngineerOnAMission to inspire a new generation into the profession.
- EPDT November 2019 issue (inc. RF & Microwave + Medical features) now available online (04/11/2019)
  
  This month’s issue, available in print or digital editions, contains features on RF & Microwave technologies & Medical applications.
- STEM Matters: #AdaLovelaceDay – celebrating the achievements of women in STEM... (04/11/2019)
  
  As I thought about a topic for this month’s column (writing at the end of September), I realised that this year’s Ada Lovelace Day was coming up fast. This annual event is held the second Tuesday of each October, after being founded 10 years ago by prominent blogger, journalist & co-founder of the Open Rights Group, Suw Charman-Anderson.
- Sponsored blog: Why shouldn’t electronics be fun? (30/10/2019)
  
  In this regular series of columns for EPDT, Mike Maynard, Managing Director of B2B tech communications agency, Napier, discusses how marketers can help put the fun back into how we talk about engineering and electronics.
- New accreditation for TÜV SÜD eases post-Brexit CE certification for UK manufacturers (29/10/2019)
  
  To ensure CE marking certification remains seamless for UK clients after Brexit, TÜV SÜD has secured accreditation from DANAK (the Danish accreditation authority) for 4 European directives (Marine Equipment Directive, Radio Equipment Directive, EMC Directive, Machinery Directive).
- Disruptive new wafer process technology to slash lead times & chip size and wind back Moore's Law (18/10/2019)
  
  A UK collaboration between start-up, Search For The Next & Semefab has unveiled Bizen: a transistor wafer process technology using quantum tunnel mechanics, promising to slash lead times, wafer area & process layers, while increasing speed, reducing power & increasing gate density over CMOS – enabling complex ICs to be made competitively in existing UK fabs.
- Sponsored blog: Why don’t marketers believe engineers are interesting? (17/10/2019)
  
  In the first of a regular series of columns for EPDT, Mike Maynard, Managing Director of B2B tech communications agency, Napier, discusses what marketers can do better to communicate effectively with engineers.

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