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- How rugged solutions are bringing advanced sensing technology to the world’s most challenging environments... (03/02/2020)
  
  Accurate sensing & regular monitoring are a necessity for maintaining safety, but for industries such as construction, transportation & mining, these highly precise & sensitive components must be able to withstand some of the world’s most challenging environments.
- How performance testing can help protect EEE manufacturers from negative consumer reviews (03/02/2020)
  
  Manufacturers increasingly need to consider their products from the perspective of how happy consumers are with their purchase. Negative reviews by customers on online sites can have a catastrophic impact on sales. 88% of consumers now state website ratings & reviews as their primary source of information when considering buying a product.
- Breaking down barriers in medical device design... (03/02/2020)
  
  Designing new products for the medical device sector is extremely challenging & complex. The healthcare industry is quite rightly heavily regulated, with new products often used in life or death situations. Here, Russell Overend, Managing Director at multi-disciplinary product design & development consultancy, Wideblue explores the challenges of designing new MedTech products to help professionals & patients in the medical sector.
- National Apprenticeship Week: ‘Look Beyond’ with an apprenticeship this #NAW2020 (03/02/2020)
  
  National Apprenticeship Week 2020 (#NAW2020) launches today, with hundreds of events taking place across England to celebrate diversity in apprenticeships and the benefits they bring to both apprentices & employers, as well as to the wider economy.
- Connecting Embedded Intelligence: embedded world – the leading trade fair for embedded system technologies (03/02/2020)
  
  Now in its 17th year, embedded world will take place again in Nuremberg from Tuesday 25th to Thursday 27th February 2020. With over 1,100 exhibitors from around the world presenting state-of-the-art embedded technologies in 2019, occupying 6 exhibition halls, and more than 30,000 visitors from around 80 countries (in excess of 40% of visitors were international), embedded world remains the leading exhibition & conference for the global embedded community.
- Graphene manufacturing 'bible' published by Graphene Flagship & IOP (Institute of Physics) (29/01/2020)
  
  A comprehensive new handbook by the Graphene Flagship, published as an open access review article in the latest issue of IOP Publishing's 2D Materials, encompasses methods for producing & processing graphene and 5,000+ related innovative layered materials.
- Engineering gender pay gap lower than UK average – but action still needed, says RAEng report (28/01/2020)
  
  Research published today by the Royal Academy of Engineering indicates that the gender pay gap is smaller in the engineering profession than the UK employee average. The mean (10.8%) & median (11.4%) pay gap for engineers in the sample analysed is around two thirds the national average.
- Electric car revolution will take time, says IMechE report (28/01/2020)
  
  A new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), entitled Accelerating Road Transport Decarbonisation, asserts that the move to electric cars will take time – and that in the meantime, more needs to be done to reduce emissions from petrol & diesel vehicles.
- Days left to win engineering product bundle worth more than £2,500 in New Year giveaway via DesignSpark... (27/01/2020)
  
  DesignSpark members can win £2.5k bundle, including electronics workbench essentials, tools & development kits, plus connected coffee machine & Nintendo Switch Lite. Entries close 31st January.

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