EW BrightSparks

We are very pleased to confirm RS Component's CEO, Lindsley Ruth, on the EW BrightSparks 2018 selection panel.

On Thursday 3 May, we held the EW BrightSparks awards to help highlight some of the UK’s brightest young electronics engineers.

The finalists of EW BrightSparks 2018 receive their awards at a celebratory event at the IET.

After the BrightSparks 2018 judging process at the RS Components HQ in London in March, Electronics Weekly and the other judges took the opportunity to  discuss the state of UK engineering today. The resulting debate generated much food for thought. We opened with a conversation about the shortfall in engineering skills and what the industry can do to recruit and ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Robin Lee, a Design and Development Engineer at Park Signalling. He purposely chose a 3-year BEng programme, with a first year in general engineering, instead of a 4-year MEng ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Iestyn Llyr, a Senior Engineer at Microsemi. Having graduated as an engineer from Cardiff University, Iestyn started at Microsemi initially working on a project called Montagu, a £485,000 ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to showcase the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Hamish Crackett, a Graduate Engineer at Roke where he has already demonstrated his knowledge of electronics, mechanics and software development. He was assigned to be part of a ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Josh Valman, CEO at RPD International. Josh Valman started designing robots when he was just 10 years old. He understood pressure systems before he really understood how ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Mary Bennett, a UK Electronics Skills Foundation scholar (Embecosm). Mary led a project to re-imagine the peripherals for pioneering early British computer, EDSAC, the second electronic digital stored-program ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Nicole Weckman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research has focused on the development of point-of-care (POC) biosensors based on micro fabricated silicon ...