Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

It's a very complicated process requiring precision from design and engineering to manufacture and installation, and there's a lot of room for problems.

We used clay from here in New Mexico and used engineering principals to design a mug that could survive a high drop.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.