The Science and Engineering Festival is an annual event held by the University of Southampton to display the outstanding research and work which the University is involved in. The event takes place across the whole University, stretching from Avenue Campus, Highfield Campus up to Boldrewood Campus. Faculties, research groups, academics and students alike all participate displaying their work to the public. It has been estimated that this year over 9000 people visited the festival.
This year the festival was held on the 18th March 2017 and CDT-SIS were proud to be a part of it! The CDT exhibit was based up at Boldrewood Campus in the state of the art building 175, which during the working week houses Lloyd’s Register’s Global Technology Centre. The CDT exhibit highlighted the effect on river ecosystems of the reintroduction of the Eurasian Beaver to the UK, the use of composite materials in the construction of Wind Turbines and fish pass and fish migration systems in use in rivers.
The CDT had a fantastic turn out to its exhibit with many fascinated adults and children alike meeting and talking to the students and discussing the work on display. We also had the reappearance of the fabulous colour in your own beaver! Which always goes down a storm with the younger audience visiting the exhibits.
The Science and Engineering Festival was a fantastic success for the CDT, not only did it highlight the importance of our research to over 9000 members of the public, it also was a fantastic opportunity for the students to practice presenting their research to a wider audience and to gain confidence in talking to large groups of people. These are all skills that will come in handy during the course of their PhD studies with the CDT.
