Tuesday - 19 August 2008

Opinion

Industry views and comment

Listen to the CBI
Richard Lambert, the CBI director-general, was right to recently highlight the threat posed to the UK economy from the growing shortage of skilled engineers in the UK. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Uniform infection
Infection in some hospitals and medical environments is abominable. In most cases washing hands with alcohol gel will reduce the transfer of infection to a minimum. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Go with renewables
The idea that the lights will go out unless we have Kent's Kingsnorth power station or nuclear power is not right. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Innovation can be UK's golden edge
To say that China has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at making its Olympic Games the greatest show on earth is an understatement. Rest assured the kitchen sink will be there somewhere too — gold-plated and the best that money can buy....
Published: The Engineer - 18 August 2008

A load of crystal balls
The economic slowdown is a worry for all of us, but for the engineering sectors, it’s a particular concern. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 12 August 2008

Leap of faith
Arguably the biggest stumbling block to low emissions motoring is the fear of the unknown: the consumer’s fear of investing in the automotive equivalent of the Betamax...
Published: The Engineer Online - 05 August 2008

White Knight needed
Sir Richard Branson’s never been shy of publicity, and it’s been hard to avoid his familiar grin this week at the roll-out of the first major piece of Virgin Galactic hardware, the ‘mothership’ that will launch the SpaceShipTwo craft...
Published: The Engineer Online - 29 July 2008

UK's best can still produce the goods
Earlier this year The Engineer joined news organisations from around the world in baking desert heat for a milestone event for the Middle East's energy sector, the official inauguration of the Dolphin Gas Project in Qatar....
Published: The Engineer - 28 July 2008

The right mix
It's a pity Ian Brixey feels he is stereotyped as a nerdy, badly-dressed, socially inept dweeb (Letters, 14 July). I am a retired engineer and have never felt anything of the sort. ...
Published: The Engineer - 28 July 2008

Capture unready
The government’s policy over clean coal has come in for criticism, with a report from an influential parliamentary committee casting doubt over the development of carbon capture and storage. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 22 July 2008

Bug business
When Gordon Brown announced a £57m deep-cleaning blitz on hospital-borne diseases, it was dismissed by some as little more than an expensive publicity stunt ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 16 July 2008

What about freight?
Most of the interest in a new high-speed rail network concentrates on its benefits for moving people around the country and getting them off the roads — but I think this is missing an important point. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

Scotch this space
Your editorial 'French revolution' highlighting the French government's plans to use its presidency of the EU to kickstart a European space revolution to rival the space shuttle, sums up the argument beautifully. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

French lesson
Building new electricity generating capacity in the UK (The Engineer, passim) will take forever — build it in France. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

Stirring response
You are always banging on about 'sexing up' engineering to attract more young people to the profession. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

Dig deep for innovation
To many of us in the UK the word mining conjures up images of our industrial history — the coal fields of Yorkshire and South Wales or the tin mines of Cornwall....
Published: The Engineer - 14 July 2008

Growing pains
Amid worries over food shortages and the destruction of huge tracts of rain forest to grow fuel crops, governments have begun backing away from their earlier enthusiasm for biofuels. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 08 July 2008

Incentives the answer
Your comment piece (June 16) did a good job of banging the drum for those of us who 'make stuff' and might have the seeds of a route through the current recruitment crisis. ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

Wake-up call
As a senior engineer of some 30 years' experience I was heartened by your editorial 'Why we can't do without engineers' ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

Causing a stir
At around 11am every day, there is a long-standing debate in our office about the coffee making process and I wonder if any of your readers would be able to settle the matter once and for all. ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

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