{"id":1182,"date":"2019-03-28T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:22:32","slug":"uwe-student-engineers-consider-challenges-within-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-student-engineers-consider-challenges-within-society\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE student engineers consider challenges within society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Last week, UWE Bristol&#8217;s first year <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/coursesbysubject\/engineeringcourses.aspx\"><em>Engineering<\/em><\/a><em> students completed a second project week at Frenchay. They looked at engineering as a civic responsibility, applying their problem-solving skills to real world issues as <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/Tushar3Dhavale\"><em>Dr Tushar Dhavale<\/em><\/a><em> (Programme Lead for Mechanical Engineering) tells us in this guest post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the first year student engineers went through an amazing experience of working through a second project week, which was organised in ECC from 18<sup>th<\/sup>-22<sup>nd<\/sup> March. The students worked in groups and put their heads together to address challenges within the society in Tamil Nadu, India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190318_100929-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1188\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1188\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190318_100929-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190318_100929-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190318_100929-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190318_100929-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_101538-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1189\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1189\" class=\"wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_101538-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_101538-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_101538-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_101538-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this mechanism the participants went through a thorough research followed by engineering analysis and a presentation in the form of a poster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0004-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1184\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1184\" class=\"wp-image-1184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0004-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0004-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0004.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0005-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1185\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1185\" class=\"wp-image-1185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0005-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0005-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG-20190322-WA0005.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a wide spectrum of speakers from industry, all of them ex-UWE who were quite keen to come back to UWE and speak to the future engineers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190319_101830-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1186\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1186\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190319_101830-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190319_101830-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190319_101830-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190319_101830-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_144050-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1187\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1187\" class=\"wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_144050-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_144050-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_144050-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/20190321_144050-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the students, this was a wholesome experience where they had an opportunity to apply knowledge they gathered here at UWE to real world problems and attain a sense of achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, UWE Bristol&#8217;s first year Engineering students completed a second project week at Frenchay. They looked at engineering as a civic responsibility, applying their problem-solving skills to real world issues as Dr Tushar Dhavale (Programme Lead for Mechanical Engineering) tells us in this guest post. All the first year student engineers went through an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-student-engineers-consider-challenges-within-society\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWE student engineers consider challenges within society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,52,15],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-in-the-community","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-events","tag-tushar-dhavale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}