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Swansea Broad Based Engineering
Headstart at Swansea provides the opportunity to work closely with lecturers and postgraduates from several engineering departments: Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Materials and Chemical and Biological Processing. You will be part of a team which will take on 5 design, build and test projects. The focus of each project is the application of engineering in the design of a high performance balloon. Projects include-
- Civil Engineering - design and construction of a pneumatic balloon structure
- Mechanical Engineering - undertaking a product and design exercise to determine the properties of a high performance balloon pressure capsule
- Electrical Engineering - to develop a communications system similar to that used on the Breitling round the world challenge balloon
- Materials Engineering - using a Scanning Electron Microscope and other material engineering analysis techniques you are to determine the effects of weathering on balloon fabric
- Chemical Engineering - to determine the chemical and physical properties of ballooning material by carrying out comprehensive research
Grapevine at The University of Swansea is supported by The Welsh Assembly Government. |
