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- On Ada Lovelace Day #ALD21: What can a flying horse tell us about the problem with STEM education? (12/10/2021)
  
  On Ada Lovelace Day, an international day celebrating the achievements of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering & maths), Professor Beverley Gibbs, Chief Academic Officer at new provider of higher education, NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering), reflects on what Ada Lovelace’s flying horse can tell us about some very modern problems with educating engineers.
- IET YWE: Young women engineers make national final & get set to inspire more girls into STEM (12/10/2021)
  
  To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day (#ALD21), six young female engineers have been announced as finalists for the Institution of Engineering & Technology’s (IET) Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year Awards 2021.
- Facebook chooses u-blox timing technology to speed up its data centres – and open-sources the design (05/10/2021)
  
  Facebook has open-sourced the design of its Time Card (sharing the GitHub repository, including specs, schematics, mechanics, BOM & source code), which features the ultra-precise u-blox ZED-F9T timing module, providing easy access to nanosecond-level timing.
- Editor’s comment: Engineering is a team sport… (03/10/2021)
  
  A few weeks ago, along with many other parents, I dropped my eldest child off at university for the first time – with both of us feeling a heady mixture of excitement, anxiety & anticipation about the start of a new adventure & phase of life...
- EPDT October 2021 issue (inc. Sensors & Comms features) now available online (02/10/2021)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Sensor technologies & Communications applications, plus EPDT's productronica show preview.
- Show preview: Green light for productronica 2021 (01/10/2021)
  
  It’s been a tough 18 months for industry trade shows & live events, with most having to cancel or postpone events through the pandemic & global lockdowns, and many offering digital alternatives.
- Make UK & Next Gen Makers launch innovative Engineering Apprenticeships Employer Kitemark (30/09/2021)
  
  Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, has partnered with skills & recruitment support platform, Next Gen Makers to develop a ground-breaking Engineering Apprenticeships Employer Kitemark, which will recognise companies who achieve a best practice benchmark, thus endorsing them as an exemplary employer of apprentices.
- Fingerprints & Infineon achieve ‘impossible’ world-first with biometric payment cards (29/09/2021)
  
  Fingerprint Cards collaborates with Infineon to achieve ‘impossible’ by enabling biometric authentication to be executed solely in the Secure Element. Technological leap delivers high performance, increases security, reduces costs & simplifies integrations.
- Global Engineer Survey 2021 results released by Tektronix (27/09/2021)
  
  Survey finds engineers want longer product lifetimes, greater reliability & more technical support from test & measurement vendors.

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