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Glasgow has compostable circuit board design licked

Caroline Hayes — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:36:04 +0000

Circuit boards that are almost entirely biodegradable have been developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow, electroplating circuitry onto compostable substrates – including chocolate. Instead of conventional circuit boards ...

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Global Photonics Engineering Contest launches at PIC Summit USA

Caroline Hayes — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:01:08 +0000

The photonic chips contest offers startups the chance to win up to €2M investment and €100K in services. Photonic chip industry accelerator PhotonDelta has announced the second global engineering contest. ...

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IEEE announces student challenge for semiconductor packaging

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:19:44 +0000

A competition launched by the IEEE offers six student teams the chance to attend next year’s Electronic Components and Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. There are three challenges, each dealing ...

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Education robot suits nine-year-olds and under-graduates

Steve Bush — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:02:55 +0000

Conrad is stocking the Calliope Joy-Car educational robot from Joy-iT. “It features a horn, indicator lights, headlights, reversing and brake lights as well as line tracking, ultrasound, infrared and wheel ...

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Vote for University Research Readers’ Choice award – Elektras 2025

Alun Williams — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:48:15 +0000

We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. You are invited to select – ...

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Warwick University appoints XCAM CEO as Honorary Associate Professor

Alun Williams — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:06:49 +0000

XCAM’s CEO, Karen Holland, has been appointed Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick University. Warwick University It means she has now joined Warwick University’s newly established Industry Advisory Board within the ...

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Glasgow University opens state-of-the-art magnetism lab

Alun Williams — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:06:08 +0000

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to ...

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UK PhD students learn cleanroom skills at Swansea University CISM

Alun Williams — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:06:17 +0000

Swansea University has hosted a course on semiconductor cleanroom skills at its Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM). The aim of the course is to equip students with the expertise ...

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Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms

Steve Bush — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:27:50 +0000

Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms are the subject of UL-Ireland research project announced today. Such surfaces can be used to intercept weak millimetre-wave and terahertz signals, boosting ...

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Drone uses AI to detect invading plants

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:54:55 +0000

CSEM, the Swiss technology innovation centre is part of a consortium which is developing an AI-equipped drone to identify invasive and potentially damaging plants. Buddleia, or butterfly bushes, and Japanese ...

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