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Engineering Education Scheme Scotland
The Annual Exhibition and Awards Day event was
recently held at
Sensation, the Dundee Science
Centre. Three teams were presented with
awards on the day, these are shown below (click on
the picture to see larger version).
Our thanks to the company engineers, teachers,
students and sponsors for making the event such a
success. For more details of projects
completed by the teams please see the
Workshops section
below.
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Photographed (L-R) Bruce McLaren - LADCO, Mrs
Sandra Muckersie, Paul Wallace, Neil Dewhurst,
Barry Greenhill, Michael Howe and teacher Duncan
Cowan
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John R Muckersie
Award for exemplification of team spirit was
awarded to the Forfar Academy team working with
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The Royal
Academy of Engineering Award for overall
excellence and an Institution of Mechanical
Engineers Award for the application of
mechanical engineering principles were awarded to
Woodmill High School working with Babcock
Engineering Services Ltd.
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Photographed (L-R) are David Ford - Royal Academy of
Engineering, Neala Firth, Brian Headrick - Babcock
Engineering Services Ltd, David Reekie, Graeme
Miller - teacher, Phiroze Mehta - IMechE, Bruce
Souter, Dave Cunningham - Babcock Engineering
Services, Amy Sime |
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The Scottish
Engineering Award for effective collaboration
between school and company and an Institution
of Mechanical Engineers Award were awarded to
Merchiston Castle School working with ERABA.
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Photographed (L-R)
are Wendy Diaper - teacher, Peter Hughes - Scottish
Engineering, Phiroze Mehta - IMechE, Siddharth
Suchde, Thomas Logan, Sandy Kirkpatrick and Euan
Moir
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Engineering Education Scheme Workshops
16 teams from all over Scotland
participated in Residential Project Development
Workshops during September at
Strathclyde,
Aberdeen and
Heriot-Watt
Universities. Each team is partnered by a
local company who provide an industrial project.
The student teams pictured below made progress on
their projects with the help of teachers,
university staff and company engineers.
(Click on photos below to see larger images)
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Balwearie High School
Working with
Alenia Marconi Systems
to design a periscope attachment
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Forfar Academy
Working with David Ritchie Implements
to design a device for manipulating large gas
cylinders
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Forfar Academy
Working with LADCO
Advanced Engineering to design a device
to deliver a
walnut into a mould |
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Gordon Schools
Working with
International
Paper to design
and analyse a
steam vent
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Gordon Schools
Working with Fraser
Manufacturing
to design a
trailer test bed |
Inverness
Royal Academy
Working with Scottish &
Southern Energy (Inverness) to design a pilot
cable monitor |
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Speyside High School
Working with
Highland Distillers
on reduction and analysis of
energy consumption in distilleries
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Perth High
School
Working with Scottish &
Southern
Energy (Perthshire)
to design and build
a drum gate
drain leakage system for
Clunie Dam
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Grange Academy
Working with Guinness UDV
on the reduction
of noise in empty bottle
stores in
the line feed area |
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Hutcheson's Grammar School
Working with Rolls Royce
to
investigate oil
leaks in the Adour jet
engine
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Bearsden Academy
Working with
BAE Systems Marine
to design and
build an
Unmanned Air Vehicle |
Falkirk High School
Working with Biomar Ltd
to design an environmentally controlled
changing facility |
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Woodmill High School
Working with
Babcock Engineering
Services to
design a portable lifting
frame to be used on Frigate
and Destroyer warships
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Stewart's Melville
College & Mary Erskine
School
Working with
BAE Systems to
develop a motion sensor based on pulsed ultrasonic signals |
The Royal High School
Working with
BAE Systems
to develop a
range of
apparatus to
be used to demonstrate
diffraction, radiation and interference of ultrasound |
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Merchiston Castle School
Working with
ERABA Ltd to develop
a modular handling system for ferrous and non-ferrous
sheet
metal |
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Royal Academy of
Engineering The
Royal Academy of Engineering sponsor the
Engineering Education Scheme as part of their Best
programme. For more details see their Best
web site (click here).
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