04.01.2007
The university's Faculty of Science and Engineering opened its doors to 16 teams of budding engineers from schools around the south-east taking part in the 2006/7 Engineering Education Scheme (England).
The scheme links a professional engineer with a team of high ability Year 12 students and their teacher for six months to work on a real engineering problem. The companies include Ford, BP and RAF Benson.
A three day residential workshop which took place at the university, offered the students a chance to investigate potential solutions to their problem using the excellent facilities and staff expertise at the university. Students from Hazelwick School in Crawley joined Amelia Washer an engineer from local company Thales Training and Simulation to work on a project to provide an integrated technical system to test the motion sensor on a flight simulator.
Students on the residential workshop at the university 18 December 2006
Since 1984, the Engineering Education Scheme, which is part of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Best programme has provided more than 15,000 young people with an insight into the world of engineering.
Bronagh Liddicoat from SETPOINT Sussex said: "This invaluable experience enables students to make more informed career decisions through a better understanding of engineering as a profession. Many of these are our future engineers, scientists and technologists, who will make a substantial contribution to industry and the UK economy."
The teams will return to the university in May to present their solutions to the problems to a panel of judges at the Celebration and Assessment Day.
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