Engineering Jobs
- Praise for Parliament decision
- ITM Power today welcomed the decision by the European Parliament to encourage the use of hydrogen-powered cars.
- Microsharp joins OLED project
- Microsharp Corporation, a privately owned UK company focussed on the development of specialist optical films, has joined the EU funded, OLED-100.eu project as the only UK participant.
- Airbus agreement
- Global commercial finance company, CIT Group has signed a firm contract with Airbus for a further 10 A320 Family aircraft.
- ABB has the power
- ABB has been awarded orders worth $32m from Canada’s Hydro One Networks, to provide high-voltage power products for the expansion of two existing 550kV-80kA substations in Ontario.
- Siemens gets a lift
- Siemens China has received an order from China Communications Construction Company to provide the electrical equipment for a heavy lift carrier with a carrying capacity of 20,000dwt.
- TSB project funding
- The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has announced that 12 research projects are set to receive in excess of £15m toward the development of more energy efficient lighting, lasers and displays.
- Javelin Joint Venture
- The Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture has received a $111.6m US Army Global War on Terror supplemental contract to produce additional Javelin missiles and command launch units.
- Developing separation technology
- E.ON Energie has signed cooperation agreements with international partners to further develop technologies for separating CO2 from flue gases in three of its power stations.
- A successful debut
- Bombardier Aerospace has announced that its prototype CRJ1000 NextGen regional jet has undergone a successful inaugural flight, clocking up over three hours in the air and reaching a maximum speed of 481km/h.
- Coach class
- A consortium comprising Siemens and Bombardier has received an order worth €189m from the Swiss Federal Railways for the supply of 121 low-floor intermediate double-deck coaches
- Stone washed
- Researchers trial air-purifying concrete they hope will convert NOx from car exhaust fumes into harmless nitrates. Siobhan Wagner reports
- Spanish army vehicle contract
- The Spanish government has awarded General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas €64.6m to supply RG-31 Mk5E mine protected vehicles for its army.
- This week in 1941: Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
- Dramatic film footage showing the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, known as Galloping Gertie, provided an object lesson in how not to design a bridge.
- Maritime research
- Qinetiq and the Ministry of Defence have signed a 15-year agreement worth £150m that gives the MoD and other government and commercial customers access to Qinetiq’s maritime facilities.
- Extragalactic sensors
- Essex-based e2v said it has accepted a contract from the European Southern Observatory to provide CCD image sensors for the Very Large Telescope operated in Chile.
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