The latest electronics news related to STEM education in all its forms.
A school space club, Astrogazers, has taken a step closer reaching orbit with the help of engineers from the University of Bath. The school – Croydon High School – successfully completed the final stage of live testing their CubeSat satellite for Mission Pegasus. The initiative, encouraging STEM participation, involves the all-girl Astrogazers club. And their prototype CubeSat satellite was carried ...
AmbaSat has unveiled its first populated and functioning AmbaSat 3U CubeSat at the Space North East England Conference in Durham. The space education specialist designs and manufacture Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space satellite kits containing the components needed to launch experiments. And AmbaSat described the event as “a major milestone in our journey”, bringing together work across technology, regulatory and ...
BAE Systems is working with NMITE (the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) to help bridge the UK’s engineering skills gap. The Hereford-based institute has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with BAE Systems’ Digital Intelligence division. It is the latest of ten new partners for the NMITE within the last year. Industry-ready An industry partner for NMITE means “actively ...
DigiKey is providing a free, on-demand Zephyr RTOS online workshop and video series. Aimed at students and engineers, you learn how to write a Zephyr device driver. Zephyr is real-time operating system (RTOS) and development framework, an open source project at the Linux Foundation. DigiKey identifies a steep learning curve, but says Zephyr is a key system for engineers 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 ...
University of Bath electrical engineer Despina Moschou has been elected as a fellow of EAMBES, the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science. Lab-on-chip specialist Moschou developed ‘LoCKAmp’, a high-speed covid-19 test at Bath. “As well as the LoCKAmp, which within 3 minutes completes gold-standard genetic-based testing techniques previously only possible in a lab, Dr Moschou has filed ...
Swansea University in Wales has installed gallium tri-oxide (Ga2O3) deposition equipment at its Centre for Integrated Semiconductor Materials (CISM). In the β crystal form, Ga2O3 is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor (~4.8eV), suiting it to high voltage semiconductors. The semiconductor can also be used in ultra-violet detectors. CISM has an MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapour deposition) laboratory built around Aixtron equipment, to ...
Madhuparna Datta, of Cadence Design Systems, has joined the UK Electronics Skill Foundation’s (UKESF) board as a Trustee. Currently the Application Engineer Director of Cadence, she has worked in the semiconductor industry for more then 25 years. “We’re thrilled to welcome a new Trustee to the UKESF board,” said Neil Dickins, UKESF Chair of Trustees. “Madhuparna brings vast expertise to ...
A UK consortium is setting up the Virtual Reality Semiconductor Fabrication Training Facility (VRSFT), funded by a £500,000 Innovate UK grant. It is being delivered by a partnership of: semiconductor IP source Semiwise, industry body TechWorks and NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), plus Pragmatic Semiconductor as a consultant. “In the UK, we have numerous small to medium sized specialist chip companies ...
BAE Systems is planning to recruit over 2,400 apprentices, undergraduates and graduates in 2025, “which will result in a record number of 6,500 in training, making up approximately 15% of its UK workforce”, it said, while anticipating to spend £230m on education and skills next year. “As the UK’s largest defence company, we rely on the skill and ingenuity of those ...
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