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Inside Issue 35
IET YWE 2018: YOUNG WOMEN
ENGINEERS MAKE NATIONAL
FINAL AND GET SET TO INSPIRE
MORE GIRLS TO JOIN THE
INDUSTRY
To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, six young
female engineers working on projects
ranging from future combat jets and
spaceplanes to artificial intelligence
have been announced as finalists for
the Institution of Engineering and
Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer
of the Year Awards 2018.
BRUNEL AND DURHAM
ENGINEERING STUDENTS WIN
2018 DESIGN CHALLENGE
Student teams from Brunel University
London and Durham University have
been crowned champions of this year’s
Design Challenge, which is organised by
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
to encourage young engineers to
develop their technical and design skills.
BRAND MANUFACTURERS
ARE PUSHING AHEAD WITH
RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Ameridrives, Stromag, Svendborg Brakes,
Twiflex and Warner Electric are leading
brands of Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
and will serve in the future under the
label “Altra Renewables” in a unique way
the international wind energy market.
ENGINEERING TEAM BEHIND
REVOLUTIONARY COPPER
MINING TECHNOLOGY WINS
PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMY AWARD
A multidisciplinary team of engineers
from the University of Nottingham and
Teledyne e2v have been presented with
this year’s Colin Campbell Mitchell Award
from the Royal Academy of Engineering
for developing MicroHammer, a
revolutionary process for extracting
copper from its ore using microwave
technology.
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