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

- EPDT August 2020 issue (inc. Manufacturing & Medical features) now available online (03/08/2020)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Manufacturing technologies & Medical applications, as well as editorial on diversity in engineering and, for STEM Matters, a review of the latest report on ‘Educational Pathways into Engineering’.
- Maggy selects Silicon Labs Bluetooth SiP for social distancing wearable designed to fight COVID-19 (03/08/2020)
  
  'Identity-blind' wearable device protects user privacy, while delivering high-performance accuracy to help protect against risk of COVID-19 infection transfer. Silicon Labs Bluetooth SiP accelerates time-to-market for Maggy design team.
- STEM Matters: EngineeringUK analysis – Educational pathways into engineering (02/08/2020)
  
  For more than 20 years, EngineeringUK, the not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with the STEM community to inspire tomorrow’s engineers & increase the STEM talent pipeline, have published a comprehensive report on the state of engineering in the UK – covering educational routes into engineering, as well as key statistics describing the sector & its workforce.
- Editor's comment: In STEM, diversity matters... (02/08/2020)
  
  As we start to emerge from lockdown – and try to figure out what the ‘new normal’ will look like for all of us – STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) has a vital role to play in the process. Critically, scientists are leading the search for a vaccine & other drug therapies to combat the virus – as well as doing the research & providing the advice to help inform government policy decisions.
- Improving patient adherence to address the changing healthcare landscape (01/08/2020)
  
  Over the course of the last decade, the global healthcare sector has undergone a major transformation. As Alexander Vervuurt, Healthcare Business Innovation Specialist at manufacturer of electronic components, modules & devices, Murata explains, to reduce acute pressure on stretched hospital resources & enable cost reductions, greater emphasis is now being placed on administering treatments to patients in their own homes.
- Factors to consider when specifying thermal imaging cameras for COVID-19 screening (01/08/2020)
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has created worldwide demand for infrared cameras that are able to screen humans for a fever condition. But how can you be sure the camera you select can actually do the job it is supposed to do, asks Glenn Wedgbrow, Business Development Manager at measurement technology specialist, Micro-Epsilon.
- Increasing manufacturing productivity for the ‘new normal’: outputs vs. inputs (01/08/2020)
  
  As the manufacturing industry emerges from lockdown and approaches a ‘new normal’, the competitive landscape will see some changes – and those quick off the mark could gain an advantage...
- How COVID-19 is making STEM cool for careers, according to new IET research (29/07/2020)
  
  New research by the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) has revealed that young people have taken inspiration from healthcare professionals & engineers during the Covid-19 pandemic to enhance their perceptions of real and life changing engineering & science to consider these roles for future careers.
- Registration now open for Digital AI Conference presented by Mouser & partners (29/07/2020)
  
  Online artificial intelligence (AI) event with industry leaders – including Google, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel, Texas Instruments & NXP Semiconductors – to take place on 9th & 10th September.

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