Imagine a device which could replicate any taste. Millions of dishes, drinks, desserts and snacks and your fingertips or, more accurately, at the tip of your tongue. Introducing the Norimaki Synthesizer, a device which, using electricity, electrolytes and 5 different gels, can produce flavours directly onto your tongue. So how does it all work?
I’ve always loved to play RollerCoaster Tycoon. The basic game play involves being able to design and run your own theme park, controlling elements such as park, ride and merchandise prices, what roller coasters are available, theme park design and layout, and more.
During the summer holiday, as an Arkwright Engineering Scholarship opportunity I got to visit the Dyson factory in a small town called Malmesbury (near Bath/Bristol). Aside from a tour around the factory, I learnt about the Dyson Institute which I had previously never come across.
The Dyson Institute offers a four year degree-apprenticeship for students interested in studying engineering. Half the week is spent studying engineering from lectures from the University of Warwick and half the week in spent working at Dyson. In years 3 and 4 students can specialise in mechanical engineering, electronics, software, or electromechanical engineering, and at the end of the 4 years, students come out with a bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Warwick.
Continue reading “Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology”From the 5th to the 8th of August I was up in Manchester learning about Nuclear Engineering on an Arkwright run course for Arkwright Engineers.
We kick started the week in our teams first discussing our preconceptions about nuclear engineering, then moving onto what we believe the benefits and dangers are. After the discussion, we had a professional in the industry come talk with us, telling us what we were correct about and what misconceptions we might have.
We then looked at the nuclear fuel cycle and how energy is made from uranium. The fuel cycle goes from obtaining unprocessed uranium from the ground, to its use in fuel fabrication, to the reprocessing of spent fuel (vitrification) and fuel disposal.
Continue reading “Nuclear Physics Week at the University of Manchester”
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