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The 2008 Olympic Games was marked with many remarkable events. One of the most widely discussed topics was undoubtedly Michael Phelps new swimsuit.

The demand for engineers has significantly risen over the years.

With on-going challenges to utilise depleting resources efficiently and effectively, engineers worldwide are turning to nature for inspiration to develop innovative designs.

At the age of 21, Steve Jobs founded Apple with his friend, Steve Wozniak.

As the common adage goes, ‘necessity is the mother of all inventions’, most of the products and technologies that we enjoy today stemmed from necessity.

With a population exceeding 1 billion people, Africa is well placed as an emerging market

The world’s urban population is expected to double by 2050 as more and more people move into cities every day.

For a long time, the engineering discipline has been a noticeably male-dominated field.Over the past few years however, participation be female engineers has increased significantly to levels no longer command news headlines.

In 2002, James Bond drove a transparent Aston Martin in ‘Die Another Day’. Years later, a ‘transparent' vehicle that projects the outside world on its interior has been developed by Japanese researchers.

The Future of Engineering On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. It ushered in new political, military, technological and scientific developments. Today, the world is heavily reliant on a growing fleet of communication, navigation and remote sensing satellites; from smart phone …