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Modern militaries consume vast quantities of fuel. Sustaining a soldier during the Second World War required around one to two gallons of fuel per day. That figure now exceeds 20 gallons, driven by heavier armoured vehicles and ever more reliance on drones, autonomous platforms, communication networks and mobile data processing.

New analysis, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering, shows low uptake of productivity-improving technologies in engineering companies, which represent a third of the UK economy and 8.5 million jobs

Pure energy (REGen) Ltd and its partners (Innoventum, Barlows, Immersa and Hypervolt) were awarded the prestigious Collaboration of the Year by the Renewable Energy Association (REA) at the 2026 British Renewable Energy Awards. The award honors their joint delivery of the innovative Solar Canopy project.

A leading Heriot-Watt professor has featured in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s prestigious 50for50 photographic series, celebrating 50 Fellows whose work has helped address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

A third -year PhD researcher in the Applied Space Technology Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde has been voted one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering.

The Women’s Engineering Society’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) 2026 Awards honour exceptional women engineers whose achievements embody this year’s theme, Engineering Intelligence

Two vast paintings inspired by one of the most ambitious scientific theories proposed by physicist Lord Kelvin were unveiled at the University of Glasgow in June.

Construction on the site of the UK’s most powerful computer has begun, which experts are hailing as a milestone moment as the country moves a step closer to turbo-charging its capacity for research and innovation.

The shortage of STEM teachers in the north-east is being tackled by a new collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils through an innovative 'train local, stay local' approach.

A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future, researchers say.

All at IES were thrilled to hear of IES Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir Jim McDonald's recent elevation to the Order of the Thistle, the highest chivalric honour associated with Scotland.

It is wonderful to see such an accolade being awarded to such a prominent member of the Scottish engineering field and an inductee of our Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

We believe that Sir Jim is the first Engineer to have been given such an honour.

A decisive shift is urgently needed from reactive responses to built environment skills shortages towards a more strategic, evidence-led and demand-led approach to workforce planning, finds the ‘Built Environment Strategic Workforce Planning for 2030’ report from the Built Environment Futures Assembly (BEFA).

Councillors have backed initial plans to connect some of Shetland's islands with undersea tunnels, which could be in place within eight years