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Editor's comment: tackling the issue of female representation
Rob Smith | Added: 23 Jun 2016
Despite major efforts in recent years to dramatically increase numbers, just 6% of the UK’s registe…
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Editor’s comment: an appetite for change
Louisa Hearn | Added: 6 Jun 2016
The ‘secret recipe’ behind many blockbuster food and drink products is a blend of universally appea…
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Editor’s comment: sizing up pumps
Rob Smith | Added: 24 May 2016
Pumps are vital. Without them, the process industries would come to a grinding halt.
Editor’s Comment: Modern medicine
Rob Smith | Added: 16 May 2016
We are fortunate in the UK. For many illnesses, you need only head to your local pharmacy and hey p…
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Troubled water
Louisa Hearn | Added: 4 May 2016
Water utilities across the UK have spent many years grappling with infrastructure built in the Vict…
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Flow computers under threat?
Added: 29 Mar 2016
At the start of the year we at Process Engineering added the element of ‘flow’ to our coverage of t…
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The right chemistry
Louisa Hearn | Added: 24 Mar 2016
When reporters in the mainstream media write about chemicals, it’s often for all the wrong reasons.…
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Shrinking sector?
Rob Smith | Added: 3 Mar 2016
Driving to work has been getting cheaper thanks to the tumbling oil prices. Unfortunately, for many…
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Great Food Nation
Louisa Hearn | Added: 4 Jan 2016
Along with great challenges often come great opportunities, and never has this been truer for the B…
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Mission inspiration or mission impossible?
Added: 3 Nov 2015
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week aims to inspire the next generation of engineers and help bridge the skil…
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Pump up the volume
Added: 2 Nov 2015
Pumps and valves technology will have to adapt if shale gas is ever to be extracted in the UK.
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Back to the future
Added: 21 Oct 2015
As the Process Engineering team celebrates Back to the Future day, we’re enjoying this little remin…
Hacked off?
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…
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Fracking quick
Added: 19 Aug 2015
Is the government’s decision to ‘fast-track’ fracking applications a misguided masterstroke?
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Time to pay up
Added: 5 Aug 2015
Male engineers often get paid more than female engineers and it’s a problem that will only serve to…
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Less talk, more action
Added: 29 Jul 2015
The UK’s top professional and academic bodies squared up to the government on climate policy last w…
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Look forward
Added: 8 Jul 2015
Engineers must be forward-looking to attract the young people their profession and this country so …
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Have a safe summer
Added: 3 Jun 2015
So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.
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Continuity Britain?
Added: 13 May 2015
British industry may be relieved that the electorate voted for stability last week, but already the…
Engineering’s election
Added: 29 Apr 2015
Engineering has come into the spotlight like never before during this general election campaign.