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Annual survey reveals young people’s, teachers’ & parents’ attitudes to engineering

12 electronics industry predictions for 2020 from ByteSnap Design

World's largest treehouse restaurant lit up with 13,000 LED lights this festive season

ecsn/afdec forecast for UK & Ireland electronic components market points to low growth in 2020

EPDT December 2019 issue (inc. Components & Industrial features + Distribution supplement) now available online

EPDT's H2 2019 Electronics Distribution supplement now available online

- ecsn electronic components 2019 market update... (02/12/2019)
  
  After a 5-year period of sustained sales revenue growth, global electronic component markets unexpectedly stalled in 2019, and now look likely to end the year with single digit growth at best. Here, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), Adam Fletcher reviews industry performance in the first three quarters of 2019 – and shares his thoughts on the likely outcome for the full year & beyond...
- Engineers among Britain’s most trusted professions, according to Ipsos MORI poll (27/11/2019)
  
  Engineers are the 5th most trusted profession from a list of 25 in Great Britain, according to market research company, Ipsos MORI's latest Veracity Index – the longest-running poll on trust in professions in Britain, having been asked consistently since 1983.
- Semiconductor silicon wafer market to see 5.7% pa growth through 2023, boosted by IoT innovation (27/11/2019)
  
  Sensor-based IoT innovation & the drive toward big data & AI (artificial intelligence) are two factors driving growth in the global semiconductor silicon wafer market, according to a report by BCC Research, “Global Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Market”.
- British LED innovation beneath some of the world’s biggest theme park rides (21/11/2019)
  
  When you’re enjoying some of the biggest & best-known theme park rides in the world, you’ll be glad to know you’ve got the best technology beneath your feet. British-made Marl LED panel indicator lamps have been go-to equipment of choice for some of the most popular theme parks in North America for 20 years.
- The future of electronics production on display at productronica 2019 (01/10/2019)
  
  This year, it’s the turn of productronica to pack the halls of Messe München in Munich, Germany, from November 12-15. Alternating annually with its larger sister expo, electronica, productronica claims to be the world’s leading trade fair for the electronics production industry.
- National day for engineering announced to combat narrow perceptions of profession among young people (13/09/2019)
  
  Engineering could be one of the most poorly understood careers in the UK, according to new research. The Royal Academy of Engineering has highlighted that misconceptions about engineers and lack of understanding of the profession means young people are missing opportunities to make a difference to our world.
- Editor's comment: Engineers on a mission... (03/09/2019)
  
  Initial plans for this year’s Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (which will run from 4-8 November 2019, #TEWeek19) have been announced, with ‘Engineers on a mission’ set to be its theme, focusing on the impact engineers make on the nation’s health & wellbeing.
- Light-based positioning & navigation in industrial applications demonstrated by research project (20/08/2019)
  
  In a German Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) joint project, OSRAM, Götting, KEB Automation & Fraunhofer IEM have researched the possibilities of light-based positioning, particularly for use in industrial applications. By the end of the project, the team came to a promising conclusion: navigating by light is practical, flexible & reliable – promising great potential for Industry 4.0.
- The growth of smart gardens: smart tech for your garden (07/08/2019)
  
  With smartphones, cars and homes, it seems like everything is getting smarter. So why stop there? The garden, a once untouched battlefield for electronic technology, is also beginning to feel the influence of smart gadgets, as smart agri tech migrates to consumer applications.

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