Manufacturing and Materials
Looking towards ‘Manufacturing 2075’ with Professor Dale Russell: Part II
The future is here. We are in an era of futuristic scenarios creating transformation of the everyday in the co-evolution of humans and technology. Encouraging and accepting whilst forming blurred boundaries of future concepts and ...
Looking towards ‘Manufacturing 2075’ with Professor Mark Girolami: Part I
Manufacturing engineering has always been data-centric, based on statistics captured from different forms of measurement. But the available data has been slow to arrive, limited, pedestrian. A confluence of new technologies has led to ...
Operationalising sustainability as an opportunity
"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” – Peter Ducker quoted in Grayson D, Coulter C, Lee M, All In: The Future of Business Leadership, Routledge, May ...
Our relationship with robots is messy and confused
An animal charity in San Francisco has become a target for much global criticism and local abuse, all because of the behaviour of its most recent recruit: an R2D2-style robot. The 1.5 metre tall Knightscope ...
‘Grill the Aspiring Geeks’ – Cranfield University stories from the Disruptive Innovation Festival
We recently took part in The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF), a three-week-long online festival of 'disruptive' ideas (from November 6th to 24th 2017), which is free and accessible to everyone. The festival challenged us to think about ...
How do structural engineers make sure an aircraft wing can carry the weight of the entire plane? Modelling failure of metals and composites
Being able to predict the behaviour of materials is one of the key skills of a structural engineer. A structural engineer must know how to design components so that they can carry the loads in ...