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Deep Impact Engineering an Expedition to the Oceans’ Deepest Points 160 years of innovation theengineer.co.uk March 2019 | £3.70 Deep impact Engineering an expedition to the oceans’ deepest points Advanced Manufacturing News, features and opinion from the world of production engineering Making his marque Conservation innovation Enhancing engagement David Brown on the challenges How technology is helping A more thoughtful approach to of engineering a modern protect species on the STEM is key to inspiring classic »24 brink of extinction »32 the next generation »34 » 45 Ed - front cover_The Engineer - March 2019_The Engineer 1 05/03/2019 15:24 ® NEW ProtoTRAK KMX RMX & RLX n BETTER n FASTER New Hardware, Faster Feeds, Drawing to finished component 24 NEW features. much faster than before. FROM ONLY n EASIER Call now for your Now with 15.6” touch screen. Desk Top Demo. 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Could be yours for just $48m. pilots to experience 9G …But not until it has completed the mission for which it was designed. 10 Transport New cooling technology The world’s first manned expedition to the deepest points of the world’s could make electric vehicles lighter five oceans: an unforgiving environment of perpetual darkness, near- freezing water, bone-crushing pressures and bizarre shrimps. 14 Transport Subterranean roads could The incredible vessel at the heart of this effort has already ticked off its ease congestion and cut emissions first two targets and is expected to complete the remaining dives over the course of the next few months. This will include a trip to the deepest opinion known point of the Earth’s seabed: Challenger Deep in the Pacific 20 Viewpoint Prof Dame Ann Dowling Ocean’s Mariana Trench. 22 Mailbox Your letters to the editor The project is bankrolled by millionaire US Finvestor Victor Vescovo (who is also piloting the “It has pushed 24 Interview David Brown sub). But, as we report in this issue’s cover story (p26), this is much more than a rich man’s ‘hero out the features dive’. It has pushed out the boundaries of 26 Cover story Taking a manned deep-sea engineering, and is expected to boundaries significantly advance our knowledge of the submarine to the deepest parts of deep-sea environment, potentially even helping of deep-sea the world’s five oceans us understand how life evolved on our planet. 32 Environment How science is helping In an age when we tend to rely on robots to engineering” probe our most challenging frontiers, it’s also a to protect endangered wildlife refreshing reminder that having a person in the 34 STEM Engagement A joined-up loop – with all the risk and derring-do that approach to inspiring youngsters entails – has the potential to inspire in a way that unmanned technologies simply don’t. Sticking to the inspiration theme, this issue also features an in-depth report on This is 38 Car of the issue Aston Martin Engineering Engagement (p34), a recent event held at the Royal Academy of Engineering which DB11 Volante brought together some of the UK’s leading STEM practitioners to discuss the challenges of 40 Medical Technology engaging and inspiring the next generation of engineers. As industry often tell us, it can be difficult to know where to start with STEM. The landscape is 42 Automation Amazon in Baltimore bewilderingly fragmented, with as many as 600 different initiatives trying to do their bit with varying 45 Advanced Manufacturing degrees of success, and many still relying on the somewhat old-fashioned notion that all it takes to 54 Show preview Med-Tech 2019 attract kids to engineering is a few explosions. 57 Archive As delegates heard, it’s only by taking a more thoughtful approach to the problem that we will really begin to shift the dial. 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