STEM Education

The University of Sheffield is leading a government-funded project to address the semiconductor skills shortage in the UK with Devon-based Bay Photonics and Phlux Technology of Sheffield by improving knowledge of semiconductors in the the general public, and particularly pre-higher education students. “The project is called ASISST – addressing shortages in semiconductor skills training – and will see the partners ...

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is celebrating the record success of its 2022/23 Scholarship Scheme for entering the electronics industry. It is the most successful year since the Scheme was established in 2010, the organisation reports. This year, there were 266 applications from undergraduates studying at one of the UKESF’s 27 partner universities. The UKESF highlighted that the 2022/23 ...

Leonardo is bidding to make engineering roles more accessible to diverse job applicants across the UK, through a collaboration with STEM Returners. Following a successful pilot programme, the company is scaling up the inititative to hire 25 “returners” before October. Open to all, it presents a chance to move into a career with Leonardo in engineering roles spanning systems, software, ...

STEM education projects, and support for international science partnerships, will receive a £6.6 million funding boost, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced. The announcement was made at the start of the Space Comm-Expo in Farnborough, which is one of the UK’s largest space events. Beneficiaries will include space and science student projects, UK researchers working to design magnetometers for ...

Powered and operated through a USB Type-C cable, Analog Discovery 3 is a 9MHz (or 30MHz) 125Msample/s 14bit oscilloscope, a logic analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator and more from Digilent. “Analog Discovery 2, AD3’s predecessor, has been used as a learning tool in hundreds of universities, and as a flexible benchtop tool by thousands of professional engineering companies and organisations ...

An Imperial College prototype quantum accelerometer has been tested on a Royal Navy ship. The accelerometer uses ultra-cold atoms, whose wave-like properties allow them to be measured accurately by lasers as they move under acceleration. Quantum accelerometers and gyros are of enormous interest for inertial navigation systems as the quantum nature of the parameters measured have the potential to offer ...

Stewart Edmondson, CEO at UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), shares his experience of supporting more than 750 undergraduates through the UKESF Scholarship Scheme. He considers how employers can de-risk their graduate recruitment process… Ash Madni, in his recent Viewpoint piece in Electronics Weekly (26 April 2023 edition), provided interview tips for graduate engineers. He said, “after three or four years ...

The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) has welcomed the publication of the Government’s semiconductor strategy, but is highlighting that a chronic skills shortage threatens the industry’s ability to compete on a global stage. The organisation – an educational charity established in 2010 – is campaigning for the Government to recognise the need for a much greater focus on Electronics and ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation, BBC Education and web domain name registry Nominet are to offer 30 credit card sized micro:bit educational computers to every primary school in the UK – potentially close to 700,000 devices. The project, called ‘BBC micro:bit – the next gen’, builds on research by the Foundation and Nominet last year which found “that teachers feel overwhelmingly unprepared ...

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers. The Letchworth-based electronic design consultancy selected Jemima Hewitt, of St Francis’ College, as the winner. She was chosen out of hundreds of ...