8 March to 14 March 2014

This week there was coverage on Sky News of the Institution’s comments on the missing Malaysia Air aeroplane, coverage of the recent speech by Institution President Patrick Kniveton at AESSEAL, as well as coverage of the Institution’s latest poll of recent UK flooding on Bloomberg and the Voice of Russia.

• 13/03/2014 Missing Malaysia Air aeroplane – Sky News

The Institution’s Dr Colin Brown is interviewed on Sky News about the missing aircraft. His comments were also picked up by the Sky News website and Yahoo News

• 12/03/2014 Engineering and manufacturing play crucial role in economy – The Business Desk

Article about President Patrick Kniveton’s address at AESSEAL where he said engineering and manufacturing are the cornerstones of a successful and profitable nation.

• 10/03/2014 Proud rush to repair 'the hole' in Dawlish coastal train line –The Guardian

Article which refers to the Institution’s calls for a fundamental rethink of how vulnerable infrastructure is protected.

• 11/03/2014 Can big data crunching help feed the world? – BBC News

Article which refers to the Institution’s Global Food Waste Not, Want Not report. There was also a reference to the report in an article in the Guardian

• 13/03/2014 Three-quarters of Britons want more UK flood defences, new poll finds –Bloomberg

Article on the Institution’s latest poll on the public’s views on the UK’s response to recent floods. The poll was also covered in the Voice of Russia, for which Dr Tim Fox was interviewed.

• 11/03/2014 Students to battle it out in locomotive competition – Railway Technology Magazine

Article about this year’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Railway Challenge.

• 10/03/2014 UK energy markets ‘need reform’ to unblock path for storage – Solar Power Portal

The Institution’s Dr Tim Fox is interviewed about the potential and barriers to  energy storage technology.

• 11/03/2014 AdFerTech hopes to clean up with slurry solution – Belfast Telegraph

Article which refers to the Cleantech Innovate event the Institution sponsored earlier in the year.

• 12/03/2014 Food industry co-operation key benefit of apprenticeship week – Food Manufacture

Article about a new standard, backed by the Institution to produce a pipeline of specialist food and drink engineers.