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Engineering Matters

Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7million people work in engineering related enterprises from manufacturing and agriculture to construction and transportation. Their work ensures that the country has sustainable power supplies, better connectivity between cities, increasing efficiency in

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#36 The Calculator that Could Save the World

Engineering Matters ·

2019/11/21

How a calculator is helping countries around the world to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable energy systems. When Professor David MacKay of Cambridge University wrote a book about sustainable energy in 2009, he could not have realised that this groundbreaking text would go on to form the basis for a calculator... The post #36 The Calculator that Could Save the World first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight

Engineering Matters ·

2019/11/07

As Quantum computing becomes a 21st century reality, Professor Sir Peter Knight explains why controlling the register of quantum bits that make up a quantum processor is so difficult, and explains how the journey to quantum computing is creating new technologies that no one could ever have predicted……. Peter’s life in quantum physics began in... The post #35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

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2019/10/31

Noorullah Kuchai is a civil engineer, a humanitarian and a refugee twice over. He lived in a tent in a Pakistani refugee camp for a decade and is now dedicating his life to helping people who have been displaced by war like he was. And the challenge is enormous. More people are being displaced by... The post #34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0

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2019/10/17

World leading smart robotics, industry disrupting technologies and the next generation of augmented reality are just some of the advances in action at Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s Factory 2050. Launched in December 2015, Factory 2050 was set up as a reconfigurable glass walled factory of the future, and since then it has helped businesses... The post #33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0 first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#32 The untold story of Eiffel and his Tower

Engineering Matters ·

2019/10/03

Had its use as a gigantic 300m high radio antenna not been recognised in the early 1900s the magnificent Eiffel Tower, would have been pulled down and destroyed. Under its original contract as the wrought iron gateway to the 1889 Paris World Fair, it was only to stand for 20 years. But its creator, engineer... The post #32 The untold story of Eiffel and his Tower first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#31 Creating a National Digital Twin

Engineering Matters ·

2019/09/19

Back in December 2017 the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission set the UK a huge challenge: to create a digital model of our national infrastructure. Known as a National Digital Twin this engineering feat requires secure sharing of high-quality standardised data between infrastructure owners and operators, making operations more efficient and resilient. A new task force... The post #31 Creating a National Digital Twin first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare

Engineering Matters ·

2019/09/05

Chloe is 16 and interested in an engineering career. She is also the daughter of Philip Hoare, President of engineering consultant Atkins. To find out more she digs deep into her Dad’s engineering life story by interviewing him about the projects that have shaped his career. From harrowing tragedy on a bridge project to world... The post #30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet

Engineering Matters ·

2019/08/22

Growing up in a tiny village in rural Scotland, regular power cuts would leave Lorna Bennet and her family without electricity for days on end. Determined to become self-sufficient Lorna set about learning how to create sustainable energy, from designing water wheels to working on tidal power arrays and testing the world’s largest offshore wind... The post #29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#28 Building for Biodiversity

Engineering Matters ·

2019/08/08

Habitat for the UK’s Great Yellow Bumblebee has declined 80 percent over the last century thanks to the loss of the flower rich meadows that sustain them. They now only persist in the North of Scotland, so when Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks planned a new substation in the Highlands, preserving the habitat of the... The post #28 Building for Biodiversity first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

Engineering Matters ·

2019/07/26

After 844 trial tests, and setting his own street on fire, founder of Scottish start-up MacRebur Toby McCartney finally hit on a viable solution for repairing potholes. His idea sought to resurface roads using recycled plastics, and the result is a form of polymer modification of asphalt that uses a mixture of waste plastics and... The post #27 Recycling Plastic into Roads first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#26 Saving Rossington

Engineering Matters ·

2019/07/16

Placing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals at the heart of projects can regenerate UK communities. From a new 4km road link that saved a former mining community in Yorkshire, to a coastal replenishment scheme that brought new opportunity to Colwyn Bay in North Wales, we hear how incorporating the sustainable development goals is changing... The post #26 Saving Rossington first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#25 Return of the Fatbergs

Engineering Matters ·

2019/06/27

Underneath cities all over the UK subterranean mountains of calcified fat are gathering in our sewers as fat, oil and grease stick to baby wipes and harden to form a blubbery bacterial blockage. Removing them is dangerous, manual work, putting people and the infrastructure itself at risk. In this episode we venture to the site... The post #25 Return of the Fatbergs first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

Engineering Matters ·

2019/06/13

Could the lightest element in the periodic table be the answer to the world’s most weighty challenge of decarbonising energy? Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe and the most energy dense. Burning it creates clean electricity and heat without generating carbon emissions, but to utilise it, first it must be released from... The post #24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker

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2019/05/30

It was a meeting with the first Briton in space, Dr Helen Sharman, that changed the course of Sophie Harker’s life forever. A maths student at The University of Nottingham, she took this advice seriously and went on to become an aerodynamics and performance engineer at BAE Systems. Although she is yet to leave planet... The post #23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in...

Engineering Matters ·

2019/05/21

Since 1913 the world’s most famous flower show has been held every Spring in Chelsea in London. This year among the electric blue Persian Slippers, the white and yellow Anthemis Punctata, and the eye catching, deep pink Digitalis Illumination series of Chris Beardshaw’s Morgan Stanley Garden, there is a focus on creating beautiful gardens with... The post #22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low...

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2019/05/09

Norwegian airline Widerøe needs a new fleet of planes to serve its regional passenger base. But it doesn’t want to buy conventional aircraft. It wants a zero emission fleet to undertake its 450 flights per day, and move 2.8 million passengers per year. But so far, no electric planes have been certified for commercial flight... The post #21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

Engineering Matters ·

2019/05/03

How did Norway become the world’s most successful electric vehicle market? Last month almost 80 percent of all new cars sold in Oslo were EVs and across the entire country it was 58 percent. Even more remarkable is that the soaring popularity of EVs is despite the lower operating efficiency that batteries achieve in cold... The post #20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#19 Future of 3D Printing

Engineering Matters ·

2019/04/18

From additive manufacturing in space, to 3D printing customised pharmaceuticals and non-planar electronics, the next revolution in 3D printing is already underway. In this episode we head to the International Space Station and interview the engineer behind a world first in 3D printing, “The Refabricator”. This 3D printer that can not only print plastic in... The post #19 Future of 3D Printing first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#18 Cocoa Power

Engineering Matters ·

2019/04/04

Four thousand years after it was first used as a form of nutrition for the Olmec people of Mesoamerica, engineers are finding new ways to harness the potential of the fruit from the miraculous Theobroma Cacao tree, better known today as cocoa pods. Their solution could provide rural farming communities in Ghana with a new... The post #18 Cocoa Power first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#17 Acting on climate change

Engineering Matters ·

2019/03/21

As young people all over the world protest over political inaction on climate change, we ask how engineers can prevent our planet’s temperature rising past the point of no return. Responding to this challenge means that engineering professionals, businesses and institutions must do things differently. They must say no say no to carbon intensive development,... The post #17 Acting on climate change first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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