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TREEHUGGER PROJECT – MARGAM PARK, SOUTH WALES

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 …

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INTERNATIONAL FAECAL SLUDGE MANAGEMENT (FSM) CONFERENCE – CHENNAI, INDIA

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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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL MEETING – SAN FRANCISCO

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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OUNDLE SCHOOL TRIP

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 …

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UNI-POL INDIA VISIT

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, …

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SCHAEFFLER VISIT

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 …

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INDUCTION 2016

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 …

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