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Drone Delivery Group makes plea to property owners to provide drone testing areas

Editor's comment: What does 2020 hold for the electronics industry?...

STEM Matters: IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

EPDT February 2020 issue (inc. Sensors & Medical features) now available online

How performance testing can help protect EEE manufacturers from negative consumer reviews

- 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.
- 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.
- Annual survey reveals young people’s, teachers’ & parents’ attitudes to engineering (20/01/2020)
  
  The Engineering Brand Monitor (EBM) is an annual survey of young people, STEM secondary school teachers & the general public on the their knowledge, perceptions & understanding of STEM & engineering.
- 12 electronics industry predictions for 2020 from ByteSnap Design (17/01/2020)
  
  Frontiers in the tech space have continued to expand during 2019 – with advances in deep learning accelerators, smart materials, AI, autonomous vehicles & cloud computing – to name just a few. But what can we expect from the electronics product design industry in terms of growth & trends during 2020?
- Make UK partners with Next Gen Makers to inspire young engineers (16/01/2020)
  
  Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, has partnered with Next Gen Makers in order to help manufacturers in the West Midlands to attract, recruit & inspire more young engineers into the sector.

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