Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Winning the IMechE UAS Challenge with Team Bath Drones
Author: Hemant Chudasama - Over the past year, 8 Aerospace and 4 Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering final year MEng students, have been working together as Team Bath Drones to design an autonomous drone for the annual global IMechE Unmanned...
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Introducing our lunar rover: Aqua Lunae
Author: William Easdown - Since October my team of eight students from Bath SpaceSoc, Aqua Lunae, has been working on a small lunar rover engineering model for the national UKSEDS Lunar Rover Competition. The competition challenges teams from UK universities...
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What is Engineering?
Authors: Katie Barraclough, Jamie Bayliss, Sammee Bhatti, Tom Binks and Andy Brooker (first year mechanical engineering students) - Our departmental competition winning video: What is Engineering? Watch the video on Vimeo. The competition brief We were asked to create a...
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Learn2Walk: a walking device for toddlers
Daniel talks us through how he developed a walking device for toddlers. His product monitors and adjusts its speed to aid a child’s mobility and development. Watch Daniel's student project video on Vimeo.
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Redesigning a car door for better access
Rasjad talks us through how he developed a door mechanism to help those with reduced mobility to use their cars.
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Heading Moonward
Author: Nick Doughty - What is the first thing that comes to ones' mind when you think of going to the moon? Reminiscent memories of the monstrous Saturn 5 rockets used to take the Apollo astronauts to our closest celestial...
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Video Production for your Student Project
Author: Franco Botes - When people ask what I do, I say that I’m an engineer, completing the second year of my PhD. I work on control systems and simulation, and I want to go into the automotive industry. But...