Contents
Volume 46 Number 1
Regulars Features
COVER STORY: ENVIRONMENT
Monster of the deep 6
After seven years, a Dutch designer has
successfully collected oating plastic debris
using an unpowered, autonomous oating
drift net deployed in the Paci c gyratory
The engineers’ manifesto 10
Environmental declarations aim to transform
ideology into action. Their corporate
popularity holds out hope for change.
Designers who are signatories discuss.
Taking action 12
Just worrying about the environment is no
longer good enough. IED members who are
also Chartered Environmentalists explain how
they are making a difference
Water, water everywhere... 14
First governments, and now engineers,
are leading the way in developing plans for
surviving in our changing world
View from the Chair 4
Colin Ledsome CEng
FIED ponders the effect
of new speed limits on
automotive design
Asides 5
Computing based on
ow nds its place
alongside integrated
circuits
Patent Offi ce 24
New round-up section
Wright Hassall 26
How to protect a rm’s
commercial secrets
What’s Happening 31
IED Elections &
Registrations 34
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Waste to energy 16
A young designer’s take on anaerobic digestion
aims to offer off-grid sanitation and biogas
Juice bar 2.0 19
Circular economy demonstrator serves juice
into cups 3D-printed from orange peel
The other driverless vehicle 20
Trials of autonomous cars by Uber and Waymo
are grabbing the headlines, but this kind
of technology also promises to transform
industrial machinery
Ian Batkin CEng profi le 28
From nishing school, it took building engineer
Ian Batkin 31 years to achieve CEng, which
he gained in 2017. He shows that with vision,
even a worker with limited quali cations can
reach the highest levels of engineering
Innovation management
Dr Benjamin W Watson returns next issue
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