Wanted: 265000 new engineering employees a yearProfessional EngineeringThe figure, which manufacturers' organisation the EEF highlighted during the recent Tomorrow's Engineers Week, shows the vast scale of the manufacturing and engineering skills g …

INSIGHT: The birth of engineering in IndiaProfessional EngineeringThe earliest engineering works carried out by the British in India were military operations to defend the East India Company's trading stations. After the Public Works Department was set …

GBTIMESChinese Academy of Engineering inducts Bill GatesGBTIMESA total of 18 foreign experts, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have been inducted into China's foremost engineering academic institution. The announcement was published on the offic …

IT PROSocial engineering: the biggest security risk to your businessIT PROPhishing is one social-engineering trick, but the definition includes any attack methodology that relies on trust and deception. And it's certainly not merely a consumer problem: …

Nature.comSynthetic biology: Multiplex genome engineering in eukaryotesNature.comA goal of synthetic biology is the design and evolution of organisms with new and improved properties, but genomic diversity is difficult to generate efficiently in the labora …

Boing BoingReverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing ...Boing BoingWhen Context Labs teamed up with UK consumer group Which? to produce an outstanding report on the surveillance, privacy and security risks of kids' ...and …

Times of MaltaMaltese student places first in European engineering heatTimes of MaltaDonald Dalli, a student at the University of Malta's Faculty of Engineering, placed first in a heat of the European Speak Out for Engineering Competition (SOFE) held i …

Chatham Daily NewsEngineering dreams for five-year-oldChatham Daily NewsFive-year-old Liam Jahns of Chatham is shown with his popsicle stick truss bridge, which took second place at a recent engineering competition at the University of Windsor. (Trevor Ter …

TruthdigGeo-Engineering Is Not the Climate Change Solution, Study ShowsTruthdigGeo-engineering is sometimes played as humanity's have-your-cake-and-eat-it option: humans have already unthinkingly engineered climate change over the last 200 years by pro …

EngadgetDARPA is engineering plants to act as biohazard sensorsEngadgetResearchers at DARPA, the DoD's arm that focuses on developing new technology for military application, have long been trying to figure out the best way to transmit timely informati …