Engineering Matters

Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7milli

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#289 Bringing lean production to agriculture: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Sustainability Gold Champions — Intelligent Growth Solutions

Posted August 22, 202400:22:29

Lean production techniques have become common across heavy industry. They cut resource use, and promote quality assurance. They were inspired by shelf...

#288 Counting carbon costs of the world’s infrastructure: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Gold Champion – Whole Life Carbon Assessment, 2nd edition

Posted August 15, 202400:20:12

We can only efficiently reduce those things that we can measure. The Whole Life Carbon Assessment standard, produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered...

#287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge

Posted August 8, 202400:28:03

The Engineers Without Borders UK People Design Challenge is a year long challenge that is part of many UK engineering students’ degrees. For this...

#286 AI In the Real World

Posted August 1, 202400:27:33

With the launch of robot taxis, we are already seeing autonomously controlled devices operating alongside humans in the public realm. As AI improves...

Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics

Posted July 26, 202400:17:12

What does it take to win at the Olympics? For Pierre Engel, chief engineer at ArcelorMittal, victory took years of experience, precision, and collaboration....