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The article discusses working in pyjamas, staying two metres away from colleagues and converting unloved nooks and garages to home offices has the new normal for people, as adapt work lives to cope with lockdown under Covid-19.

The article discuses the latest IET Skills and Demand Survey, not only are Grate Britain technology and engineering companies concerned about the well-documented engineering skills shortage, and respondents say they have encountered candidates entering the job market with good academic knowledge but lacking required practical work-related skills. It mentions that Tim Baker, professorial teaching fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University College London, on it.

The article presents ideas on how engineers and designers are repurposing industrial by-products into valuable new materials. Topics discussed include information on Newspaper Wood, the idea of Dutch designer Mieke Meijer, description of lightweight tiles developed by firms like Gloucestershire, England-based Lightweight Tiles, and how eggshell battery is made.

The article offers insights of Australian writer, science commentator, and doctor Karl Kruszelnicki on his several degrees, the difference of scientist and engineers, and his books. Topics mentioned include the career as medical doctor and the creating of electroretinograph, the creative ability of both scientists and engineers, and his book "Short Back & Science."

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues on topics including the difficulties in recruiting engineers in power electronics sector, proposed high-speed two (HS2) rail link in London, England, and specifications of the Vespa 125 motorcycle.

The article focuses on job opportunities in engineering and technology sectors in Australian companies. The Australian newspaper "Sydney Morning Herald" reported that government's Information & Communication Technology (ICT) workforce study revealed increased need for ICT specialists in Australia. It informs that Marlene Kanga, president of the Institution of Engineers Australia, mentioned critical shortage of engineers for solving problems related to resources such as energy.

The article reflects on the growing demand of engineering graduates in the engineering sector, technology industry and public sector of Great Britain. It focuses on a study by the registered charity Higher Education Careers Services Unit which reveals that only 57.1 percent of engineers have started their career in engineering and 20.9 percent went on higher education. It mentions several engineers who have adopted career which include Ross Davison, Naomi Mitchison and Pat McDivitt.

The article focuses on different lines of employment for engineers. The author mentions about employment scope for engineers while working for different non governmental organizations (NGO) who have been involved in humanitarian assistance and aid in different regions. The author talks about Engineers Without Borders, an NGO which has been working in Africa. Most of these NGOs engage themselves in social entrepreneurship to uplift the society such as Rwanda-based Great Lakes Energy. INSETS: MECHANICAL ENGINEER;COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER;CIVIL ENGINEER.

The article discusses the views of Dame Ann Dowling, chairman of steering committee for the Global Grand Challenges Summit to be held in March 2013 in London, England. It presents brief information on educational profile and career growth of Dowling and reports that she has contributed in a research and development project for constructing a silent aircraft. INSET: THE SPEAKERS.

The article offers information on several challenges for engineering and technology companies identified by the National Academy of Engineering and reports that these issues are to be discussed in an international summit hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology to be held on March 12-13, 2013 in London, England. It includes economical solar energy, nitrogen cycle and clean water supply.

What's the connection between a space shuttle explosion, a plane crash in Afghanistan and outbreaks of food poisoning in Scotland and Wales? A common thread links these fatal disasters and many more besides. It's the 'normalisation of deviance'.There was more to the shuttle explosion than hardware failures alone. Senior managers were allowing errors that the shuttle wasn't designed to cope with, while junior engineers were screaming for help and being ignored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper mentions that man's fear of earthquakes is helping him devise a control system to mitigate their impact on buildings. The technology is classified according to three types of system passive, active and semi-active or hybrid. Passive systems are the most mature of the three, and rely simply on absorbing or dissipating someof an earthquake's energy, with no feedback between them, the building's structural elements and the ground. The systems are further divided into energy dissipaters, base isolators and tuned mass dampers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineers coding safety-critical systems today have plenty in the toolbox. The C++ programming language offers object-oriented technology, for example. As a result, it is relatively easy to implement the various bells and whistles that such systems require the devil lies in making sure that they work. To that end, the aviation and automotive industries are soon to introduce new rules and standards that aim to improve code verification and thereby deliver the especially high levels of functional safety they require. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After several months of fruitless subsea efforts, BP appears to have finally plugged the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP faced heartbreaking setbacks in its early attempts to stem the oil gushing from Macondo field, which included a failed 'top kill' operation. But the company had a multi-strand strategy, and knowledge gained from the failed early efforts helped it formulate more successful plans, which eventually led to the installation of a temporary cap on 15 July. Prior to capping the well, the company also succeeded in capturing over 700,000 barrels of oil on the seabed. The capping operation presented enormous challenges, not least because an enormous fleet of ships was clustered on the surface. Things were even more congested on the seabed with a dozen remote operated vehicles (ROVs) working in close proximity in the pitch-dark, ice-cold conditions on the seafloor, in water a mile deep. The ROVs needed to navigate around a work site cluttered with pipes, cables, tools and debris, close to the open mouth of the well, which was belching vast quantities of oil and gas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computerised trading systems make it possible to shift stocks at the speed of light but potentially disastrous consequences await. In this paper, the author investigates the circumstances of this year's 'Flash Crash'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sir James Dyson, famed British inventor, entrepreneur and engineer, talks about the need for R&D, why the Government should do more for engineering and why he swears a lot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It won't come as big news to many that engineering managers aren't the fittest, healthiest or most diet conscious people in industry. But, argues Susan Aid ridge, with a few diet modifications we can eat ourselves fitter and offer better performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As managers we instinctively know that its job is to lead a team. The paper examines team management from the edited extract from the book 'Effective Team Leadership for Engineers'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Product design is an important area for engineering managers. But there is more to it than simply either getting the design to look good or the product to work. Product design must prompts the user to interact with it in a specific way. For businesses today, the main risk with respect to quality and reliability of new products is not just technical failures, but also failures of a non-technical nature, that is, complain due to the product not meeting the consumer's expectations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Believe it or not, engineering is a happy profession. The author explores how it can spread that feel-good factor to a gloomy world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the world celebrates Charles Darwin's 200th anniversary, the author explains why 'On The Origin of Species' is a useful read for engineers too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many sound reasons for creating a more diverse employee profile. At a time when Western countries are short of qualified engineers it doesn't make sense to narrow the talent pool by discriminating on the basis of gender, colour or creed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Look at the CVs of China's ruling body, and you'll find a familiar collection of skills. So what draws engineers to the top of the political tree? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From time to time we all have problems getting on, fitting in or even standing out in the workplace. Chartered engineer, qualified management coach and E&T agony aunt, Janet Wright solves your engineering management dilemmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

You can't test everything in the lab environment. What do you do where everything is hot and bothered? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineers and neurosurgeons have joined efforts to create a technology capable of repairing the most debilitating injuries of the brain. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may have the ability to retrieve limited consciousness. The team's goal was to use DBS in this patient to 'switch on' the areas in the frontal cortical systems. DBS challenges conventional ideas about neurological dysfunction and the restoration of consciousness. Indeed, thanks to this treatment, patients may be given back the power to “steer themselves in any direction”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this new series of occasional features, we will look at some less known areas of the engineering profession. The paper focuses on the gadgetry-and-drama-ridden world of theatre engineers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To mark the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, the author chronicles the US/USSR space race and profiles the main players of the rivals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Record fines for price-fix firms; All eyes on Beijing; 'Atlas of Ideas' shifts focus south; Telemetry upgrades help water business flow smoothly; Textiles project promises 'go anywhere' solar panels; High-tech cheating shocks chess world; Spam 'will threaten national economies'; Government cleans up its online act; Winning women with a bright future; IET.tv lets members talk direct to chief exec. (9 pages) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented in which the author talk about Mike Hudson, who used to work as an electronic systems engineer for a global company in Sheffield.

The article presents information on the influence of science fiction on the mindset of the people who have interest in perceiving engineering and technology discipline. It informs that the one of the easiest way to reach scientists and engineers with science-fiction is to try and avoid dystopias and painting technologists as evil or incompetent. INSETS: PROJECT HIEROGLYPH;TOO MUCH 'SCI', NOT ENOUGH 'FI'.

First, let's briefly review the facts. Since 2002, when Toyota introduced an electronic throttle control system, there have been a spate of what are termed 'unintended acceleration' incidents involving Toyota vehicles. Several investigations by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration duly followed, and there were a couple of small recalls. Then, in August 2009, came the harrowing deaths of California Highway Patrol officer Mark Saylor and three members of his family. In a recorded emergency call, the cautious and experienced officer can be heard saying that the accelerator was stuck, and that the brakes weren't working. As he approached an intersection, his last words were: "Hold on and pray" Finally prompted to acknowledge a problem, Toyota subsequently recalled 2.3 million vehicles, blaming an American supplier for faulty workmanship. But the supplier fought back, pointing out that they had only become a supplier in 2005 three years after reports of unintended acceleration first surfaced. In all, one American Firm of safety consultants has Identified 2,262 instances of the problem, leading to 819 crashes and 26 deaths. The world's media previously fond of extolling Toyota's Just-in-Time productions systems and quality-conscious virtues now rounded on the company, which quickly found its reputation in tatters. Public apologies soon followed from Toyota president Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, as did still further recalls. Yet at the time of writing, no firm cause has conclusively been identified, and Toyota's reputation remains troubled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opportunities for wireless communications are outstripping the networks' ability to carry the resultant traffic. Luke Collins finds out how the problem is being tackled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We're constantly bathed in an electric soup of RF emissions. Is there anything to fear? Or is fear itself the most damaging consequence of our increasingly wireless lives?. The paper reports on the bio-effect of RF fields and claim that low-level exposure to RF energy posed serious health risk on life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artist? Musician? Teacher? Engineer? Internationally acclaimed 'scanner' Robin Rimbaud is all those and many more, discovers Elissa Taylor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many of the complex financial products that went into meltdown in the credit crunch were designed by physicists and engineers. This paper looks at the role of financial engineering in the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Imagine hundreds of engineers lining the track as the lights go green and you are launched down a ¼ mile narrow strip of tarmac in under six seconds. That's drag racing and why Haas Automation sponsors Sweden's 2006 FIA European Drag Racing Champions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Continuing our series of occasional features about the more obscure areas of engineering, Cheryl Knight takes a daring roller coaster ride into the thrilling world of fairground engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses work carried out by the author on the development of UAVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents some of the failures in the field of engineering. French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer Franz Reichelt expressed his intention to test his invention with a dummy from the Eiffel Tower. Soviet scientist Andrei Zheleznyakov experienced a malfunction in his suit when he was developing the nerve agent Novichok 5.

The article focuses on Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) has supported engineer prisoners of war (PoWs) and IET Archives staff came across an interesting collection of records concerning prisoners of war, including members who were able to sit the examination.

The article presents several people with real-life cases where in the German engineers and scientists who ended up working for the U.S. and Great Britain. Topics mention including chemical engineer Otto Ambros, nuclear physicist and Nobel prize winner Werner Heisenberg and engineer and aircraft designer Robert Lusser.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article regarding the value of retirement of British Chartered Engineer (CEng) as well as their profession outside Great Britain.

A letter to the editor is presented regarding the frustration of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) members with civil engineers in Great Britain.