Topic - Schools and Colleges
National Manufacturing Day takes place on Thursday 26 September. Join us for this fantastic opportunity to engage in interactive workshops relating to sustainable design engineering.
This event is open to Year 12 and 13 students (individuals and group bookings) who are interested in studying engineering at undergraduate level.
Skills in sustainability are highly sought after by employers and are embedded in our engineering courses to provide you with the right knowledge and skills for your career.
Our BEng (Hons) Sustainable Design Engineering course demonstrates the importance of this critical area as we look towards the new generation of engineers.
Come along to find out more from our team of lecturers, as well as experts from local businesses, to discover why sustainability should be at the forefront of everything we do.
You’ll have the opportunity to take part in multiple interactive taster sessions including:
Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories
The internet has revolutionised the way we live and communicate. In this session, you will learn how the fourth industrial revolution is harnessing this power to share information and make decisions. It is now possible to link human behaviour and real-world events with smart manufacturing factories to improve efficiency and make intelligent decisions in real time. You will see this technology in action and gain an understanding of the exciting careers emerging for specialists in this field.
Strength of Materials
Product failure is not acceptable, especially in safety critical and high-performance applications. This session will help you understand how mechanical engineers are able to remove the guesswork from the equation when developing products. The workshop will start with the theory of different types of forces and what this means for materials and components to which they are applied. Using computer software, a real-world simulation will be created to understand at what point the material will break. Finally, this can be tested in the laboratory to see how theory, computer prediction and real world all compare.
You’ll also tour our facilities and hear from lecturers and current students about their experiences studying at the University.
Contact events.recruitment@sunderland.ac.uk for more information.