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The Institution of Structural Engineers is pleased to announce that following a rigorous selection process, Yasmin Becker has been appointed as the Institution’s new Chief Executive, to take over from Martin Powell’s fourteen-year tenure.

Professor Martin Green, Professor Andrew Blakers, Dr Aihua Wang and Dr Jianhua Zhao are awarded the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade for transforming the efficiency of solar cells and dramatically reducing costs, making solar the cheapest source of electricity in most countries.

HMS Ark Royal was the former flagship of the Royal Navy and the third and final vessel of the Invincible-Class aircraft carriers. It was commissioned in 1985 with a complement of 685 crew, 366 fleet air arm and 22 aircraft. At 210 metres in length, a beam of 36 metres and a displacement of 22,000 tons, the ship was a third of the size of the latest Elizabeth-Class aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales with their revolutionary but previously untested highly automated concept requiring a lean-manning complement of 679. These ships can carry 250 troops and three times the number of aircraft.

One of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century begins its construction phase on Monday.

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest radio telescope in the world when completed in 2028.

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have published ground-breaking research into the phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.

The Centre for White Space Communications has been awarded a £330,000 grant from the Scottish Government to develop and implement a White Space pilot network in Orkney.

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Three University of the West of Scotland students’ projects have been launched into orbit and are heading for the International Space Station (ISS).

The experiments – involving plant growth in microgravity, worms in space and nanoparticles in microgravity – will be monitored by astronauts on the ISS for six weeks

A scientist at Heriot-Watt University has been awarded £2.5 million from the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies programme.

The development of Ayrshire’s new Digital Process Manufacturing Centre (DPMC), part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), hit a major milestone this week with its half a million-pound refurbishment kicking off.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Association for Black & Ethnic Minority Engineers have signed a partnership agreement to promote diversity and look for ways to encourage more black and ethnic minority students to consider engineering as a career.