Contents
Volume 45 Number 5
Regulars Features
First place 6
The 2019 IED Awards, held at the National
Motorcycle Museum, recognise remarkable
engineering designers as well as dedicated
institution volunteers.
Also: winner Ian Wise CEng MIED interviewed
Profi le: Zoe Laughlin 10
Winner of the 2019 Inspire, Support,
Achieve award, this provocative performance
artist who founded the Institute of Making
describes how she got into engineering
Exoskeletons 14
These medical devices aim to offer healthy
adults superhuman endurance, if not
superhuman strength
King of the hill 18
A Dutch design of ood defence pavement
block reduces the height of dykes by
channeling water through an internal cavity
View from the Chair 4
Colin Ledsome CEng
FIED weighs the
must-haves and the
nice-to-haves in design
Asides 5
The parable of a
candle: what its design
evolution says about
tech competition overall
Wright Hassall 24
How avoiding litigation
in case of a patent
infringement might
actually make money
What’s Happening 29
IED Elections &
Registrations 30
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Making sound without noise 20
How one company developed a new sounder
to signal the presence of quiet vehicles that
would not confound unwary pedestrians
A new soundscape 22
Pressure waves (sound) can be focused just
as can electromagnetic waves (light); the key is
developing a structure that acts as a lens.
A new eld of engineering is arising around it.
COVER STORY
Balancing act 26
A low-power design for airship propulsion
originally published in 1864 was borne out
only earlier this year in the rst-ever ying trial
of an independent craft of this kind, of the
Phoenix unmanned aerial satellite
Innovation management
Dr Benjamin W Watson CEng CTPD CEnv MIED
returns next issue
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