Civil Engineering solves global challenges across the natural and built environment including infrastructure such as bridges, pipelines and railways. Students designed a railway bridge for High Speed 2, a new high-speed railway linking London to the Midlands, the North and Scotland. 

Evaluating constraints such as geometry, geology of the site, flooding risk, environmental and social constraints, students built a prototype model and presented the type of bridge including: 

• Bridge typology 
• Construction materials 
• Construction methods 
• Estimated costs 

How do you plan a mission to space? And what do you do when you get there? During an interactive lecture students: 

• Learnt about our solar system. 
• Considered how to plan a space mission. 
• Applied maths and physics to understand the Earth and other solid bodies in the solar system. 
• Discovered how we can use scientific techniques to understand a planet’s environment and how it was formed. 

Design Engineers bridge the gap between traditional engineering and innovative design to help find solutions to global problems.

A highly interactive session based around a ‘Design, Make and Test’ challenge. In 2022 students built mechanical pully systems before testing the systems to failure to find out which team could lift the heaviest weight. 

Glimpse into the work of Chemical Engineers who design, operate and continuously improve the manufacturing process to make all types of products from wet wipes to Covid-19 vaccines. They do so whilst helping to manage the world's resources and protecting the environment. 

In 2022 students: 

• Learnt how a chemical process simulation works. 
• Carried out virtual experiments and analysed their results. 
• Explored some of our facilities including the Carbon Capture Pilot Plan, which is the most sophisticated of its kind in an academic institution globally.