NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) announces the launch of the Innovation Programme 2024–2025, a key initiative aimed at supporting local businesses and driving innovation in Herefordshire.

NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The LIA (Lighting Industry Association) outlining future partnership initiatives to bridge skills gaps affecting the lighting sector.

By Dr Patricia Xavier, Associate Professor NMITE Diverse teams provide enhanced engineering by being more critical and creative. The lived experiences of different groups of people provides a greater chance that a variety of perspectives are taken into account in design and manufacture, producing products and processes that meet the needs of a wider range of people.

New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) announces that Dr Sarah Peers, Head of Academic Skills at NMITE, who has been an integral member of the team at NMITE since the pioneer cohort joined in 2021, has been elected as the President of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) for the term 2024–26.

Remembering Ada Lovelace’s life and work is bittersweet. She was a trailblazing visionary, able to articulate the computational process 100 years before the first analytical machine was developed.

NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Patricia Xavier as a new Associate Professor and Programme Leader for Integrated Engineering. She has also been made Acting Academic Director, effective immediately.

The UK’s engineering academics have called for greater visibility for the subject in schools as a way of tackling labour shortfalls and the need to find environmental solutions, following a poll by NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering) and the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC). 

In this week’s podcast, Charlotte Morgan interviews Dr Sarah Peers from engineering-specialised university NMITE (the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering) about engineering education.