Mechanical

- Mechanical
- Transport
- Profiles
- Issue 96
Keeping complex systems on track
Kuldeep Gharatya FREng has been a key advocate for systems thinking at TfL – to the advantage of all London Tube users.

- Civil & structural
- Mechanical
- Issue 96
Bridging the Eurasian gap
The world’s longest suspension bridge (for now) spans about 5 km. Just how did they build it, and what was the secret to it being a year ahead of schedule?

- Design & manufacturing
- Mechanical
- Transport
- Issue 94
How crashing cars can help us make them safer
When your day job sometimes involves totalling a £100k car in the name of keeping passengers safe.
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- Transport
- Mechanical
- How I got here
Electrifying trains and STEMAZING outreach
Alex Keeler, a railway overhead line design engineer at Amey, won this year’s Baroness Platt of Writtle Award for the most outstanding incorporated engineering application nationwide.

- Aerospace
- Mechanical
- Profiles
- Issue 92
The helicopter flight fixer
When Philip Dunford FREng started his career, flight test engineers flew alongside pilots. As his career progressed, flying time gave way to developing new aircraft.
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- Arts & culture
- Mechanical
- Issue 92
Reimagining the zoetrope
An installation from the 2022 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival is a life-sized, vertical zoetrope that uses time-honoured engineering principles to display a stunning three-dimensional short animation.
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- Sports & leisure
- Mechanical
- How I got here
Q&A: George Imafidon
George Imafidon wears many hats. He’s a performance engineer at X44, Sir Lewis Hamilton MBE HonFREng’s electric motorsports team; CEO and Co-Founder of Motivez, improving access to STEM careers for young people; and is on the board of the Hamilton Commission, which investigates the lack of representation of Black people in motorsport.