Cranfield University’s Professor Dame Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021 for services to engineering and education.
While aerospace has long been a major lifeblood for the UK manufacturing sector, recent years have seen a perfect storm of investment, R&D and new technologies drive the sector into new heights.
Manufacturers need to urgently review their supply chain to find out how exposed they are to the Coronavirus outbreak, explains Richard Wilding, professor of supply chain strategy at Cranfield School of Management explains.
The first full-scale prototype of a titanium pressure vessel to be used in future manned missions for space exploration has been produced using additive manufacturing.
Cranfield University has announced plans for a leading Professorship in Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence at the University, sponsored by BAE Systems, a technology leader in this field.
An innovative qualification from Cranfield University is enrolling a second intake since it launched in January, after large manufacturing employers rushed to enquire having learned the course provides an efficient means of utilising the Apprenticeship Levy.
Loxham Precision, a high precision machine tool company based at Cranfield University, and Ultra Precision Motions (UPM), a specialist bearing company based near Swindon have announced a collaboration that will see the creation of a new high precision manufacturing technology for producing air bearing components.
The £35 million Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC), which aims to change the way the world thinks about flight, has been officially opened at Cranfield University.