Engineering and design student insights
Student projects, placements, research and study experiences in the Faculty of Engineering & Design. Sometimes featuring a graduate guest spot.
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Capturing robot dynamics in one shot
Electronic and Electrical Engineering PhD students, James Male and Gorkem Anil Al, were awarded second place in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering photo competition with their image - "Lighting the Way for Human-Robot Collaboration." James and Gorkem discuss their research into autonomous robots and how this enabled their photo concept to come to life.
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My Placement: Project Analyst at Quick Release
Mechanical Engineering student, Egor Naumov, shares his experiences of his placement year at Quick Release, a product data management consultancy.
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How a Civil Engineer won Women in Property’s 2020 South West Student Award
Elenor Naraidoo is a 3rd year MEng Civil Engineering student and the winner of the Women in Property’s 2020 South West Student Award. In this blog, Elenor shares her journey from the nomination stages of these awards to eventually being announced as a regional winner.
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Manchester, Lyon and what I learnt during my placement experience at stephenson STUDIO
Our BSc Architecture student and poster competition winner Rebekah Ball talks about her two years of placements with an architecture studio in Manchester, the projects she worked on, how working from home affected her and the differences between her two placements.
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Quarantine story of an architecture placement student
Quarantine story is a blog written by one of our BEng Architecture Students, Colton Newbury, about his experience of starting his 3rd year placement during lockdown 2020.
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What we learnt from the Creative College project during our MSc Environmental Design course
During our studies in the MSc Environmental Design course we worked on a design project to build a sustainable Passive House standard school. Read about it and watch the video which shows our initial design and explains our sustainable design strategies.
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Bringing a medical startup to life: Practice Track with Somnus Scientific
One of the great opportunities the MSc Engineering Business Management and MSc Innovation & Technology Management offer are the Practice Track projects. Helene updates us on her group's Practice Track project and tells us what they found challenging as a group working remotely in their first 6 weeks.
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PaperspACE – Issue 14 TRACE
Translucent paper. Remnants of history. Backtracking one’s journey. In this 14th issue of PaperspACE we follow trails through the city, highlighting often forgotten signposts. We explore the marks left behind by those before us and their continued influence in the present.
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