Engineering with everyday impact – Chapter 6
In More Info | No commentQueen’s University of Belfast is producing research that has led to advancements in a wide range of industries including energy, cyber security, biomedicine and manufacturing.
Queen’s University of Belfast is producing research that has led to advancements in a wide range of industries including energy, cyber security, biomedicine and manufacturing.
Stannah stairlifts can do a lot more than just go up and down stairs. Our reporter went to find out how the machines can connect with carers.
Our reporter went to investigate how UCL’s Integrated Engineering Program is transforming the way engineering is taught.
RS Components facilitate innovation within the engineering sector in many ways, for example they kitted out a huge truck with the latest, state-of-the-art inventions. ITN Reporter Robin Ross went to find out more.
Dr Larissa Suzuki is a passionate computer scientist, inventor and engineer. She holds a PhD in Computer Science, an MPhil in Electrical Engineering and a BSc in Computer Science. Her professional career includes over 10 years advancing fields of computer science and engineering, including work on smart cities, data infrastructures, emerging technology, and computing applied to medicine. She is currently an Honorary Researcher at University College London and has worked for local government, managing the development of technologies to support London’s growth and infrastructure delivery. Dr Suzuki founded a start-up at the age of 21. Throughout her…
Sophie is a Technical Apprentice at Leonardo MW, which specialises in aerospace, defence and security technology. She is currently working in Applied Research, looking at new and emerging technologies within defence. Since beginning her apprenticeship in 2015, she has predominantly worked in Hardware, designing and developing schematics and printed circuit boards.
Dr Ozak Esu is an Electrical Engineer at Cundall, a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy. Working within Building Services, she undertakes surveys of existing buildings, and engineers coordinated electrical services for new build, refurbishment and fit-out projects. Ozak completed her PhD in 2016 at Loughborough University, in Wind Energy and Advanced Signal Processing whilst working as a Graduate Engineer at Cundall. She continues to involve herself in academia, taking on guest speaking and lecturing roles in different universities. While studying at Loughborough University, Ozak became a STEM Ambassador with STEMNET. In this role, she has helped run numerous engineering…
Winner of the Mary George Memorial Prize For Apprenticies, Jamie recently entered the fourth year of her apprenticeship at MBDA, a leading missile and missile systems company. Rotating around the business on placements, Jamie has been involved in a wide range of activities, from completing complex drawings for parts and assemblies, to analysing procurement statistics, to conducting trials. Jamie is due to enter her final placement commencing January 2018, which has been decided by herself and her employers to be in the Trials department. When Jamie undertook her initial placement in Trials, she received the opportunity to take…
Ellie is currently employed as an Instrumentation and Control Technician at SemLogistics, an Upper Tier COMAH oil storage facility in Pembrokeshire. Having completed a four year apprenticeship, Ellie is now responsible for installing and maintaining all instrumentation and control systems on site.
Ollie went to meet Katie Lawrence, at Land Rover BAR to talk about her role as a Performance Engineer.
Sahir Patel went to meet John Roberts, an engineer at Jacobs UK Limited, to talk about his career and his work on the British Airways i360.
Baruch went to meet George van den Driessche, a software engineer at DeepMind, to talk about his career and his work on the computer program AlphaGo.
Iona went to meet Roma, a structural engineer to talk about her career and wobbly bridges.
Daisy went to meet Ed Barton, CEO of virtual reality company Curiscope to talk about his career and his work in virtual reality.
Grace went to meet Abbie, a spacecraft structures engineer at Airbus, to talk about her career and her work on the Mars Rover.
Six young people meet six awesome engineers to ask questions to find out what it’s really like to be an engineer and why it is so awesome.
Installation To start the installation of Ultimaker Cura, download it first. After downloading, open the installer and run the installation wizard to complete the installation. To make sure Ultimaker Cura can run on your computer, we recommend checking the system requirements described below. Operating systems -Windows Vista or higher, 64 bit -Mac OSX 10.11 or higher, 64 bit -Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, 64 bit System requirements -OpenGL 2 compatible graphics chip, OpenGL 4.1 for 3D Layer view -Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 or newer -205 MB available hard disk space -4GB RAM memory Note: Although these are the…
PUNE: Students with BTech degree are turning out to be much more in demand than those armed with MTech in the job market with the recruiters willing to pay the undergrads considerably more. On one hand, the low level of research in engineering is a matter of concern. On the other hand, a review of the placement packages offered to postgraduate students reveals that all is not well with the MTech education. The highest annual salary package offered to a BTech student is, on an average, about 5-time higher than what is offered to one with an MTech degree. Pune…