STEM education drives innovation and talent development in electronics design and engineering. News on STEM initiatives highlights programs fostering skills in coding, circuit design, and embedded systems. Key milestones include partnerships between academia and industry to fuel the electronics workforce pipeline. Electronics Weekly’s STEM news offers readers updates on education trends essential for sustaining growth in electronics product development.
Mechanical stuff never ceases to amaze me. The latest revelation is that one can weigh an aeroplane flying overhead from the ground. At least, that is what a YouTuber called Brian Haidet – a materials science PhD – has demonstrated in a video on his excellent AlphaPhoenix YouTube channel. En-route, he built a set of scales about 2m long and ...
A UK government initiative worth £4.75 million, sees the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) launching the Semiconductor STEP programme (Skills, Talent and Education Programme). With demand for semiconductor skills vastly outstripping supply, the goal is to help tackle the skills shortage in the UK’s semiconductor sector. STEP Partners Effectively, building a pipeline of skills and enabling more young people to ...
The latest episode of the Electronics Weekly podcast CHIIPs is out now. It features engineering insights from Jan Peters, director of Katalytik, the STEM specialist.
It's time for me to do one of our periodic roundups of recent “Gadget Book” previews, covering a range of technologies, products, gadgets or general stuff of interest…
Françoise is co-founder and chairwoman of the board of Melexis. She tells Caroline Hayes how the Belgian company has grown from a startup specialising in custom asics to a company with a portfolio of sensor, driver and transceiver ICs and offices around the world, Founded in 1989 in Belgium, Melexis has grown to employ more than 2,000 people in 12 ...
We're talking about STEAM 2024 at Thorpe Park, creating an electronic nose without using specific sensing chemicals, and deep space communications services...
Apple is once again partnering with the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) for its Girls Into Electronics initiative. This year, a mentoring element has been added. The UK charity works with leading universities and schools to invite female students aged 15-18 to experience the opportunities that an electronics engineering-related course can offer. This year, the Apple + Girls into Electronics ...
The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) welcomed Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh to its Skylon Campus in Herefordshire. Accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire, Edward Harley, His Royal Highness toured the campus and met NMITE students, academic staff and CEO James Newby. Its campus will eventually house the Centre for Automated Manufacture (CAM), the Centre for Future Skills ...
Students at the universities of Surrey, Portsmouth and Southampton will have the opportunity to design and launch a satellite mission, thanks to a new programme. The three universities are partners of the Space South Central regional space cluster, which is backed by the UK Space Agency. And their initiative is dubbed JUPITER – the Joint Universities Programme for In-Orbit Training, ...
One to note: the UK Bebras Challenge, a STEM computing competition, is now open for registrations for 2024. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team for highlighting this one.
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