Flight to the future
By Lee Hibbert, .
One day airliners could be fitted with scores of small engines. PE reports on British research being funded by Nasa
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Money talks
By Ben Hargreaves, .
Are engineering companies still finding it hard to borrow enough from the banks? PE investigates
The line manager
By Lee Hibbert, .
Steve Yianni has the enviable job of picking winners among the array of technologies that promise to deliver a better rail network
Driven to success
By Lee Hibbert, .
Jaguar Land Rover is riding high, with record sales, plants full to capacity and thousands of new staff
Pick a clean energy winner
By Ben Hargreaves, .
Firms developing low-carbon technologies are struggling to find backing from investors willing to take a risk on them
Return to the circuit
By Lee Hibbert, .
After an illustrious career in industry, business
and politics, Lord Paul Drayson has come full circle – back to the motorsport that originally inspired him to study engineering
Alert to the real dangers
By Lee Hibbert, .
PE looks at a prototype system which fuses information from various sources to provide a rounded view of security threats
Refuelling opportunities
By Lee Hibbert, .
With its high R&D investment and rapid response times, the motorsport sector is well placed to offer services to other industries – and it is now exploiting these advantages
Implants under the microscope
By Ben Hargreaves, .
The recent row over faulty breast implants highlights the problems that can crop up in the manufacture of medical devices in general
Has Prism cracked the plutonium problem?
By Lee Hibbert, .
Waste from spent nuclear fuel could be reused in a new type of reactor to generate electricity
