Engineering

Data from THE’s World University Rankings underscore that many more women are studying some science subjects in the Mena region, but does this translate into employment?

A rediscovered fascination for space means blue-sky opportunities for universities

Government pledges huge windfall for research facilities, but much of it will not be seen until the next decade

Tributes paid to electrical engineer who helped forge today’s science of mobile communications

Tributes paid to hydrogeologist who spent career at Newcastle and Glasgow

Universities must be vigilant in age of social media and sneaky technology, researchers warn

The inaugural provost of Hereford’s new engineering university on moving from Mexico’s industrial heartland to the UK’s Steel City and life as a gay woman in a male-dominated profession

Analysis from THE’s data team suggests big differences among disciplines in the amount of scholarship that fails to garner a citation 

Binghamton University, State University of New York academic’s response to fundraising dinner invitation for National Society of Black Engineers branded ‘deeply offensive’

Aston researchers calculate the tensile forces at work when Spider-Man prevents a ship from splitting in two

New schemes will provide grants to master’s and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

But growth in those completing postgraduate research degrees in physics appears have stalled, according to latest Hesa data

University of Colorado Boulder master’s programme will ‘bring the laboratory experience’ to students at home

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

‘Romance is not dead, it's just behind a paywall’

The Australian robotics researcher and award-winning teacher discusses the importance of hands-on learning and why robots won’t be taking our jobs any time soon

Certain disciplines and institutions likely to suffer from pegging of teaching funding

Not far from the birthplace of preventative medicine, research institutes in the French capital are working together to launch a new era of technology transfer

University and College Union warns Russell Group institution will struggle to raise teaching quality while cutting jobs

Developers working with academics compete for $150,000 prize

Universities in the US lead Times Higher Education’s rankings for engineering and technology and computer science; Peking and NUS are Asia’s top performers

Doha offshoots are also integrating courses with goal of providing ‘unique’ value to students

Analysis of departmental spending suggests there is a large gulf in costs between some disciplines

Study reveals that there are now 2,900 English-medium undergraduate programmes in continental Europe

Times Higher Education will publish expanded league tables for 11 different subject areas

Extent of freely accessible literature could ‘tip scales’ for libraries to cancel subscription packages, says study

Bundling of subjects under pilot for future phase of teaching excellence framework may ignore diversity and complexity of many disciplines, says engineering body

Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air

The former president of Carnegie Mellon University will lead the Singaporean institution from 2018

First Israeli university in China welcomes students this summer

Academics standing for election aim to stand up for evidence-based policymaking

University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years

Treatment of engineering scholars seen as sign of hostile ‘prove it again’ attitude

President of proposed new engineering institution wants to use egalitarian management ethos of King Arthur ahead of its launch in 2020

On International Women in Engineering Day, Alice Larkin decries the slow progress on improving gender balance in her discipline

Hotly anticipated figures on salaries show that for subjects such as economics and law, the university attended has stronger link to high earnings

The award-winning professor discusses Yugoslavia’s war, women and engineering, and how nationalism hurts research

Planetary scientist whose sculptures can be found across the University of Leicester’s campus is remembered

Academic whose expertise spanned economics and chemistry remembered

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Expert who advised policymakers on the automotive industry remembered

Institutions need to be excellent across the board to attract leading researchers, analysis warns

McLaren Applied Technologies director sees need to go ‘beyond STEM’, THE-Ulsan summit hears

Researcher warns that anti-immigrant sentiment could affect pipeline of academic talent

Bristol-based expert in real-world applications of computer systems remembered

Latest Hesa data throw spotlight on disciplines most at risk from flight of EU talent from UK 

New international consortium tackles major energy challenge

A leading researcher in the field of renewable energy has died

As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey

We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not ‘sweating the small stuff’ with the new Australian Research Council funding director

A clear-eyed study of shiny and new inventions calls for better oversight, says Richard Joyner

Survey of Chinese employers shows UK graduates required to ‘fit back in’ to home culture

Isolation and ‘blatant sexual harassment’ among the issues reported by female engineering scholars, writes Brian Rubineau

Vice-president for academic affairs at École Polytechnique says French-taught courses are ‘hard to sell’ to international students

But academics argue against narrow teaching focus and warn that technical skills have a ‘half-life’

Eight subject rankings reveal elite group of 14 US and European universities thriving across disciplines

Royal Academy of Engineering report reveals which countries are proving most effective in training up engineers to drive economic growth

AGR finds employers are also shifting their focus to apprenticeships