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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#250 The Observational Method – Engineering’s Best Kept Secret

Posted February 1, 202400:35:51

The use of “The Observational Method” could be one of the best kept secrets of the engineering world. Time and time again it has been used to deliver...

#249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together

Posted January 25, 2024

The modern world is bound together with cables. As our economy moves to the cloud, the vast majority of data traffic passes through subsea cables. As...

#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam

Posted January 18, 2024

Are there really bodies buried in the Hoover Dam? Was the hard hat really invented here in 1931? And why was it originally called Boulder Dam? In this...

#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection

Posted January 11, 2024

In this podcast we go back in time to the invention of cathodic protection 200 years ago by President of the Royal Society Sir Humphry Davy. Initially...

#246 Tiny Robots, Big Moves: The Basics of Microrobot Actuation

Posted January 4, 2024

From tireless assembly lines in bustling factories to the delicate precision of diamond cutting, robots are transforming industries by becoming superhuman...