I always look forward to the month of June for many different reasons. Apart from the fact that it is obviously warmer, it contains the summer solstice when the Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23° 26’. On the 21st June this year, this maximum tilt means that the sun will be at its highest point and we will have the longest period of sunlight.

As I write this blog it feels like summer is about to arrive. I am looking out of the office window and our new college is quite a picture on this sunny Spring day. We are making excellent progress with the interior developments of the college.

I hope you all have been enjoying at least a few days off during the spring break. April has been a hugely exciting month for the world of engineering. It seems like every newspaper, magazine or news programme is invariably informing us of the next life-changing or life-improving innovation. Two stories that have caught my imagination are so different yet similar in terms of their magnitude.