Engineering Matters
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Engineering Matters
Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7million people work in engineering related enterpr...
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#350 Living in Space: The Next Generation of Astronauts
Dr Meganne Christian is a scientist and adventurer. In her research, she has studied the performance of novel materials including the use of nanoscale...
#349 Never Again: Embedding Safety in Engineering
The tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London demanded new ways of thinking about professionalism and ethics in the engineering sector. However, si...
#348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage
In Europe, and around the world, renewable electricity generation is being built at pace. However, these sources of energy create a new challenge: the...
#347 The pipeline to Net Zero, revisited
Last week, at the end of September 2025, a study by Regen, commissioned by the MCS Foundation, found that biomethane had a limited capacity to replace...
#346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement
It’s a simple fact of chemistry that cement cannot be produced, without also producing carbon dioxide. But this does not mean that the sector—and its...
#345 Pinpoint Precision in Space Positioning
When launching a satellite into orbit, getting the positioning right is of paramount importance. As humanity sends more satellites into space, the vas...
#344 Networks Under Water: Transport, Flooding and Resilience
When flooding happens, damage and disruption ripples out across assets and infrastructure. Private businesses and homeowners can insure themselves aga...
#343 Weaving Software into Automation
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weavers’ loom. A...
#342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse
The metaverse is often thought of as an alternative virtual space, a world separate from reality where we can hang out with avatars of our friends and...
#341 Opening the Door to Engineering – Engineering Matters Awards winner’s episode
Alan Lusty founded adi Group, a multidisciplinary engineering business supporting major manufacturers. He is part of a group that offers engineering s...
#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery
Electrification of construction equipment is an ongoing and necessary part of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and restrict global warming...
#339 Integrated Contracts and Innovative Delivery
On two major road projects in the UK work was completed on time and under budget. But not every project can claim such success. Defects, delays and co...
#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability
Nature has long served as a blueprint for engineering breakthroughs from the kingfisher-inspired design of Japan’s Bullet Train to termite mounds that...
#337 Breaking Barriers to STEM with Lightyear Foundation – Engineering Matters Awards winners episode
In this episode, we spotlight the remarkable work of the Lightyear Foundation, the winner of the Engineering Matters Awards 2025 Gold Champion for Div...
#336 Gravity-Powered Heavy Haul – Engineering Matters Awards winners episode
At a quarry in Turkey, heavy haul trucks are carrying hundreds of tonnes of materials, with no external power. It’s not quite perpetual motion, but it...
#335 Monitoring Methane: The Tech Behind the Tech
LongPath Technologies has taken Nobel-winning discoveries, and applied them to a key cause of climate change: methane leaks from oil and gas facilitie...
#334 Digital Construction’s Past, Present and Future
In 2016 management consultants McKinsey released a report that reverberated around the construction and engineering sectors. This sector, the report s...
#333 Agents of Change – AI in Industry
Generative AI has swept across our society. In every app, up it pops, eager to offer a helping hand. The opportunity to talk to computer systems as if...
#332 The Future of Airports Around the World
Airports are at the forefront of a global transformation, rethinking their role not just as transport hubs but as sustainable, connected cities of the...
#331 Life Extension for Infrastructure
In the second half of the 20th Century, the world was transformed through infrastructure construction. New roads and railways, levees and power lines,...
#330 A Village Full of Maths Tutors – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners episode
Helping the next generation achieve their full potential doesn’t just take commitment from their parents or carers, or from professionals like teacher...
#329 Scaling Low Carbon Innovation – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners episode
Ben Gibbons and his colleagues at Circular11 are developing ways to add value to hard-to-recycle light plastics. They take packaging, and turn it into...
#328 Listening for Leaks – Engineering Matters Awards Innovation Champion, FIDO
Worldwide, water is in short supply and high demand, with very real consequences for human health and security. Many countries struggle to maintain ag...
#327 Nuclear Engineering for School Children – Engineering Matters Awards 2025
On the coast of rural Cumbria, in England’s northeast, a once-secretive nuclear site is transforming its legacy by investing in the engineers of tomor...
#326 Revisited: The Green, Green, Shores of Home
The past months have seen a shift in international trade, of a scale not seen for decades. New US tariffs have created uncertainty for investors, and...
#325 Real world sustainability and the digital revolution
The rise of AI and machine learning promises a revolution in how we live and work. Expert reasoning and mundane tasks will be completed for us in the...
#324 A Shift of Power on Europe’s Borders
This February, with the flick of a switch, there was a vast shift of power on Europe’s borders. The Baltic states’ electrical grids, built in the 1960...
#323 Engineers Deliver Impact: The Engineering Matters Awards 2025
Engineers from around the world gathered at the Postal Museum in London for the Engineering Matters Awards 2025, presented in partnership with the Ins...
#322 Engineering Ecosystems: Italy’s Seagrass Meadows
Seagrass meadows are the engineers of the marine ecosystem. They provide habitats, support biodiversity, prevent coastal erosion and sequester carbon...
#321 Circular Construction – Designing for Disassembly
We can reuse and retrofit buildings to extend their lifespans, and reduce their embodied carbon impact. But some structures may not be suitable for fu...
#320 International Year of Quantum: 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics
Quantum mechanics has transformed our understanding of reality, but how did we get here? In this episode, we celebrate the International Year of Quant...
#319 Revisited: Green Engineering, with Bison
Britain’s biodiversity has been declining sharply over the last 50 years. The country is now one of the most nature-depleted nations in the world. Des...
#318 Gaming Out a Career in Nuclear
At a unique hackathon in Manchester, a diverse group of hackers, coders, and gamers gathered to design digital solutions for the nuclear industry, ble...
#317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design
When we search for causes of accidents, we often assume a binary: either mechanical failure, or human error, were to blame, and we must pick between t...
#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?
AI is evolving so fast it eludes definition. The potential impact of the field is barely understood, even by those working in it. ‘Move-fast-and-break...
#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet
How should engineers think about their duty to design safe structures? For IStructE’s head of climate action Will Arnold, this duty extends beyond the...
#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back
Ten years ago, Fugro set out on an ambitious mission: to bring expert staff off of vessels, and into a purpose built remote operations centre, or ROC....
#313 Introducing: Mapping Italy’s Seagrass for Biodiversity Gain, from Planet Beyond
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has a 100 year history of mapping the world’s oceans. John Nyberg, technical director, explains how...
#312 Lifting Each Other Up — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, People
What do engineers build? Often, the answer will be bridges and dams, apartment blocks and factories. But in everything they do, engineers are also hel...
#311 Transforming the World, and the Economy — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, Planet, Part 3
At the core of engineering and manufacturing, is the transformation of materials. A tree becomes a book. A stone is transformed into a concrete bridg...