This year’s Olympic Games in London have been touted as the most connected in history. With an estimated one billion people set to watch the events and millions more expected to log on to keep track of all the action, all aspects ...
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Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the winners of its 2012 Innovation Awards, with LUX-TSI winning the award in the Measurement in Action category, sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The ...
Tags: LUX-TSI, 2012 Innovation Awards, The IET Innovation Awards, LED, Lamp
Seaward's latest electrical safety tester establishes a brand new approach to portable appliance testing. Uniquely,the innovative new Apollo 600 is equipped with onboard risk assessment tools to assist the user and ensure a proportionate ...
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Seaward's latest electrical safety tester establishes a brand new approach to portable appliance testing. Uniquely,the innovative new Apollo 600 is equipped with onboard risk assessment tools to assist the user and ensure a proportionate ...
Tags: electrical equipment, Seaward, PAT, portable appliance testing
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has appointed David Grant CBE,FREng,FLSW,CEng,FIET as a non-executive director and as senior independent director of the Group. Grant,age 65,gained his PhD in Engineering ...
The University of Edinburgh played host to the second annual UKESF Summer Workshop, a joint industry-university engineering business skills initiative. Companies taking part included ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and ...
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The Institute of Physics(IoP)is to celebrate 50 years of the laser diode at the University of Warwick later this month. "In October 1962,four papers were submitted for publication reporting the realisation of the first lasers operating in ...
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In the week that 335,000 students in the UK received their A Level results engineers'body the IET has warned that the economy needs more science,maths and engineering graduates. "Currently,the UK is only producing 25 to 50%of the ...
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Due to unprecedented demand, Fluke UK has extended its offer of a new Portable Appliance Testing Kit consisting of a Fluke 6500 PAT Tester and a set of PAT testing accessories, all bundled at a low special offer price: the offer is now ...
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