By Tom Dunlop. Last week two of us spent time at Margam Park, South Wales, doing outreach helping with the Treehugger project. This experience combines of a number of engineering and scientific developments into a single original VR experience, combining science and art. This experience has been developed by Marshmellow Laser Feast and Salford university …
By Virginia Clement. At the end of February three colleagues and myself headed to Chennai in India for the 4th International Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) Conference. After the success of the first three FSM Conferences in Hanoi (2015) and Durban (2011 & 2012), FSM4 aimed to bring together professionals working in the sector, governments and …
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By Emily Radley. The 253rd ACS National Meeting had almost 19,000 attendees and featured over 7000 talks. It’s unsurprising with this number of talks available to attend, the diversity of presentations was incredible. Being a member of the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) division, meant this is where I spent the majority of my time, …
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By Chris Griffiths. PRiME is an electrochemistry and solid-state technology conference that has been held every 4 years since 1987 in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the largest and most significant research conference, of its kind, in the world. This international gathering is a joint effort of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) along with other pacific electrochemical, …
By Dan Butcher. Last week myself and four peers travelled to Oundle School in Peterborough, as part of a budding collaboration with the College of Engineering at Swansea. We arrived at the Design Engineering Technology Centre at Oundle and we were all instantly impressed with the brand new facility, which was fully equipped with equipment …
By Victoria Thomas My research project is part-funded by an investment casting company called Uni-Pol, a global leader in the production of nickel alloy turbocharger wheels. Uni-Pol has manufacturing plants based in China, India, Mexico and a smaller foundry in the UK, Polycast Ltd. After the first meeting with my industrial supervisor Dr. Steve Leyland, …
By Peter Hall On a typical drizzly Swansea Tuesday morning I, along with my academic supervisors, left for Cardiff airport. We were traveling to Herzogenaurach Germany, I didn’t know how to pronounce it either, the home town of Adidas, Puma and more importantly for us my sponsor company Schaeffler. We flew from Cardiff airport to …
By Caitlin McCall Starting our Engineering Doctorate, on the 19th of September 2016 we were invited to Bay Campus for the M2A Induction Event. Divided into 3 streams, Functional Coatings, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, and Computational Modelling, we received our induction packs for the following months. During the morning, the new cohort met the friendly …
By Robbie Sutton. The 1st Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) was held back in 2002 in Portugal. Since its inception, it has been an annual and widely international affair, with host locations ranging from China and Canada, through to Italy and Germany, just to name a few locations. SET is considered a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed …
On Monday 18th July the 2015 M2A cohort travelled up to Birmingham for the annual tour of prominent UK industrial sites. The first site earmarked for invasion by the Swansea contingent was the JCB factory in Staffordshire where we learnt how, from simple beginnings, one man’s vision transformed the face of manufacturing in the UK. …