In this session, you will be asked to design a railway bridge for High Speed 2, a new high-speed railway linking London to the Midlands, the North and Scotland.

You will set the geometry of the bridge and explore multiple constraints and impact associated with this choice within the following parameter considerations, geometry constraints, geology of the site, flooding risk, environmental and social constraints.

By evaluating these constraints, you will decide on the type of bridge to build and design it whilst considering:

• Bridge typology
• Construction materials
• Construction methods
• Estimated costs

You will then make a model of the bridge to test its capability.

Teaching staff

• Dr Sunday Popo-Ola
  Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Dr Alalea Kia
  Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

How do you plan a mission to space? And what do you do when you get there? These are two key questions you’ll be answering during this interactive lecture. You will:

• Learn about our solar system.
• Consider how to plan a space mission.
• Apply maths and physics to understand the Earth and other solid bodies in the solar system.
• Discover how we can use scientific techniques to understand a planet’s environment and how it was formed.

Teaching staff

•  Dr Emma Passmore
  Principal Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Design Engineers bridge the gap between traditional engineering and innovative design to help find solutions to global problems. In this session, you will have the opportunity to step into the shoes of a Design Engineer, working in teams to come up with creative, exciting, and practical solutions to a variety of engineering challenges.

You will:

• Learn about what Design Engineers do and what it is like to study Design Engineering at Imperial.
• Be introduced to key principles, such as design and ideation, rapid prototyping and technical application, alongside important considerations such as human factors and sustainability.
• Work in teams to create a product that addresses a specific design engineering challenge.

Teaching staff

• Dr Samuel Cooper 
  Senior Lecturer, Dyson School of Design Engineering
  

After an introduction to Mechanical Engineering at Imperial, you will take part in a ‘Design, Make and Test’ challenge in teams. Your design will be tested to failure as you compete for the ‘heaviest lifter’ and ‘best design features’ awards.

You will:

• Gain an appreciation of what Mechanical Engineering is.
• Get to know other students better by working in a group.
• Test your creativity, design and manufacturing skills.. 

Teaching staff

• Dr Linda Stringer
  Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  
• Dr Idris Mohamed
  Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  

Get ready to learn what chemical engineering is all about. Chemical Engineers are responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving our manufacturing processes to make all kinds of things from green hydrogen to COVID-19 vaccines. They do so while also helping to manage the world’s resources and protecting the environment. In this session you will be introduced to some key principles of how chemical processes are modelled and operated and how chemical engineers combine physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computer simulations for this purpose. 

You will: 

• Learn about the challenges of operating chemical processes and how chemical engineers are helping to automate tedious tasks while also ensuring safety of operations. 
• Carry out hands on simulations to see how to control a process yourself and what difference automation tools can make to help make your job easier. 
• Get to explore the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant of the Chemical Engineering Department – which is the most sophisticated of its kind in the world at a university. 
• Get to see a how a hydrogen cannon can fire a ping-pong ball up into the air and learn all about hydrogen and how this new green fuel can change our world. 

Teaching staff

• Dr Mehmet Mercangöz
  

  ABB Reader in Autonomous Industrial Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering

The Department of Aeronautics at Imperial has achieved an outstanding reputation for its research in the aeronautical engineering field. In this brand-new subject for 2023, you will be introduced to Aeronautical Engineering by from Dr Ajit Panesar, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics. Following this, you will have the opportunity to learn about aerodynamics by Dr Paul Bruce (or one of his colleagues), who leads a research group in experimental high-speed aerodynamics at Imperial, utilising Imperial’s supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnels.

The session will finish with a guided tour of the Aeronautical Department, led by current Imperial students, giving you a chance to see the college’s excellent equipment, workshops and computing facilities and an opportunity to ask questions about what it’s like to study at Imperial as an undergraduate student.

Teaching staff

• Dr Ajit Panesar
  Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics
• Dr Paul Bruce
  Reader in High-Speed Aerodynamics, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics