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World’s Longest | Danyang Kunshan Grand Bridge
The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is a marvel of modern day bridge engineering. It is 164.8 km (more than 100 miles) in length and has literally taken bridge building to a whole new level. Even though...
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Top 5 Engineering Websites
To be a successful and well-informed engineer, it’s not enough to just have an engineering degree anymore. You need to be constantly aware of new information and techniques that will improve your...
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What do engineers REALLY think about Tesla’s Cybertruck?
This week Tesla unveiled their highly anticipated cyberpunk inspired Cybertruck much to the amusement of the automobile industry experts. Elon Musk presented Cybertruck as a long-needed update to the...
View ArticleTop engineering inventions that save lives
You may have thought about or discussed the question: Which invention has saved the most lives throughout human history? The field of medicine has many claims on this. Vaccines, blood transfusions, and...
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Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions That Mechanical Designers Never Fulfill
What better time than the New Year to reflect on the ups and downs of the last twelve months? Hopefully, there are many achievements and great memories to look back on, but we probably also have a few...
View ArticleTop 5 Hottest Engineering Topics for 2020
These are exciting times to be involved in engineering. The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR or Industry 4.0 – whichever you prefer) is in full swing. The pace of technological change, especially in the...
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Top 25 Most Famous Bridges in the World
While suspension bridges tend to grab the headlines there are actually seven basic types of bridges. These are beam, truss, cantilever, arch, suspension, cable stayed and tied arch. Whether you are...
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Nuclear Micro Batteries run for decades
Image source: singularityhub.com Scientists have demonstrated a prototype nuclear battery that relies on a fundamentally different mechanism to produce energy: Radioactivity. In a typical setup, a...
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Cambridge: Top Mechanical Design Consultancies
GW Mechanical GW Mechanical consultancy was established only in 2019, but undoubtedly is one of the best in Cambridge. Its founder, Gareth Weeks, a mechanical design engineer with over 25 years of...
View ArticleVideo of the Day: Walkalong Glider – Controllable Slope Soaring in action
A walkalong glider is a flying model aircraft made of paper, foam or a similarly light, low density material that is designed to be kept aloft by controllable slope soaring. The pilot generates the...
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McLaren Sheffield Technology Centre: Jobs and Graduate Scheme (COVID update)
Image source. While the original McLaren Technology Centre is based at the company’s head office in Woking, Surrey, we have seen recent expansion into Sheffield. Even though McLaren is heavily...
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Famous Engineers: The 10 Who Changed The World
Naming just 10 of the countless engineers that have had enormous impacts on the world as we know it can be quite difficult. Over the last 100-200 years especially, there have been major advances in...
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Engineering Disasters: 25 of the Worst Engineering Failures on Record!
Engineering disasters. Why do they happen? Let’s look at most famous engineering disasters and the circumstances preceding them. Engineers must study these in order to prevent catastrophes like these...
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Engineering Problems: 5 Hot Challenges for Future Engineers
There are a multitude of engineering problems currently in the world and they will have to be faced over the coming years, and for many years to come. These challenges are related to healthcare, energy...
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3D Printed Parts That Can Kill Bacteria
Researchers for the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, have created 3D printed parts that are resistant to common strains of bacteria. This has a vast amount of...
View ArticleVideo of the Day: Inflatable Scooter (Poimo)
Ever wish that you had a scooter in your backpack? Wish no more, the University of Tokyo have developed an inflatable scooter that riders can keep in their backpack. It even has a seat, so you can be...
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Solar Powered System Extracts Drinking Water From Dry Air
The first generation of this system from a team at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), was developed three years ago as a proof of concept in order to validate that such a system could work....
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Dual-Mass Flywheel
What is a Dual-Mass Flywheel? A dual-mass flywheel (also known as DMFW or DMF), is a mechanical device that rotates and is used to generate continuous energy in systems where there is no continuous...
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Best Engineering Jokes, Puns, Memes and Anecdotes
You’ll have to be an engineer to laugh at these engineer jokes! We’ve searched around and gathered some of the funnies mechanical engineering jokes and memes for you and perhaps our favourite anecdote...
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Mechanical Engineering Games: Fun for Engineers!
Mechanical Engineering Games are somewhat rate, however, there are plently of games that can be used by mechanical engineers as an alternative way to learn, and as a way to let off some steam in...
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