Work Experiences:
DURHAM:
Durham has provided me not only an interesting trip that will guide my decision on my future academic options but also an opportunity to see a well-renowned university, inlcuding its impressive resources as well as its environment.
During my visit here, I found the environment in the town to be much more friendly and comforting than expected of a widely regarded university.
River Wear (top), Durham (Castle)
During the trip we attended talks of multiple engineer related aspects in durham, one of which was unexpectedly archeology, which I found interesting nonetheless, as well as the engineering opportunities available to us at Durham, including multiple branches of engineering that we could pursue.
We also attended more practical talks, specifically on renewable energy conservation, which gave us a more hand on experience with using basic lab equipment that allowed us to gain results which we later scrutinised. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience and was able to confer with engineering professors at the school and could as about the work load, amount of coursework, as well as the hands-on experiences that they create.
We also had the opportunity to visit Durham Universities's fine lab instruments that looked very intriguing to work with, one of my favourites being the Wind Tunnel. Seeing these immensely expensive and useful tools has allowed me to understand the importance of such instruments in university studies.
Although I aspire for an engineering related course in the future, I have not finalised my decision however this trip has allowed me to become more focused on the environment and procedures that I want to be apart of in my future
InvestIN: Young Engineering:
This short yet useful course allowed me to undergo a more mental activity of the obstacles in space design and how we as future engineers can assist in soon to come problems during further space travel, such as fuelling, travel and the mission to mars as whole.
On the 18th of February, we visited the sel de mines salt mine, which is a very famous in Switzerland. In this tour, I learned of the continuous chemical process which occurred between the gypsum 400m above the ground and the water vapour in the air, which reacted with one another creating a constant temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, which is quite useful in storing necessarily that require a constant temperature( wine e.t.c).
I also learned of the many uses that one material is useful for for a country, in this case being salt which is needed for cattle, food and necessary chemical reactions.
The guide also outlines the necessity of naturally occurring necessities, that should be relied on instead due to no carbon footprint caused when extracting it as opposed to when using other means, such as the ocean to get salt, which creates a large carbon footprint in turn.
I also learned how only 2 miners are now present, with everything else in automation, allowing the mine to be economically viable, due to the decreased cost in the long run. This points out the pros of automation and how it can create a much cheaper and efficient work force.
On the 19th if February, we visited CERN where we had a tour of the multiple laboratories that play a major role in the particle accelerator that encompasses a very large area. Visiting this area allowed me insight on the more mechanical side of engineering and how many different aspects and designs are used together to provide the most efficient means of the task at hand. For instance, linear and cyclotronic acceleration are used at various areas, linear at the beginning in order to provide the particle with speed and hence it will have the velocity to travel round the bend in the circular pathway.
I also gained insight of very interesting, and very unknown insight of physics, specifically the dark matter and energy. It was exciting to see the physicists there begin to research more into dark matter, something that makes up as much as 28% of our universe as opposed to the 5% of visible matter. On the tour of the different building, I also had the chance to review the work they are doing with anti-protons, anti-electrons and anti-hydrogen, as I got to see first hand the accelerator used in these experiments, one of which is the formation of anti-hydrogen where 2 anti-electrons and one anti-protons in pushed together using electric fields, in order to form anti-hydrogen, this is then excited to a higher energy state, and the particle released is used to determine the weight of anti-hydrogen. This particularly interested me because of my knowledge of exciting electrons to a higher energy state that I gained during my AS level physics studies.
The use of anti-protons experiment also took place by the spinster of multiple hospitals, to treat cancer cells. This showed me further in real life application outside of physics that could help many others. The anti proton was also seen as more effective at destroying cancer cells, however the expense is too much currently for use in every hospital.
During the talk before the tour, a physiatrist name ‘Mac’ showed me of the percentages of physicists to engineers and was surprised to find out how many more engineers and IT department staff were there compared to physiatrist, and also how crucial they are, which interests me due to my interest in energy seeing, but I didn’t before think of working in a workplace with a relatively high number of physicist.
DURHAM:
Durham has provided me not only an interesting trip that will guide my decision on my future academic options but also an opportunity to see a well-renowned university, inlcuding its impressive resources as well as its environment.
During my visit here, I found the environment in the town to be much more friendly and comforting than expected of a widely regarded university.
During the trip we attended talks of multiple engineer related aspects in durham, one of which was unexpectedly archeology, which I found interesting nonetheless, as well as the engineering opportunities available to us at Durham, including multiple branches of engineering that we could pursue.
We also attended more practical talks, specifically on renewable energy conservation, which gave us a more hand on experience with using basic lab equipment that allowed us to gain results which we later scrutinised. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience and was able to confer with engineering professors at the school and could as about the work load, amount of coursework, as well as the hands-on experiences that they create.
We also had the opportunity to visit Durham Universities's fine lab instruments that looked very intriguing to work with, one of my favourites being the Wind Tunnel. Seeing these immensely expensive and useful tools has allowed me to understand the importance of such instruments in university studies.
Although I aspire for an engineering related course in the future, I have not finalised my decision however this trip has allowed me to become more focused on the environment and procedures that I want to be apart of in my future
InvestIN: Young Engineering:
This short yet useful course allowed me to undergo a more mental activity of the obstacles in space design and how we as future engineers can assist in soon to come problems during further space travel, such as fuelling, travel and the mission to mars as whole.
CERN:
On the 18th of February, we visited the sel de mines salt mine, which is a very famous in Switzerland. In this tour, I learned of the continuous chemical process which occurred between the gypsum 400m above the ground and the water vapour in the air, which reacted with one another creating a constant temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, which is quite useful in storing necessarily that require a constant temperature( wine e.t.c).
I also learned of the many uses that one material is useful for for a country, in this case being salt which is needed for cattle, food and necessary chemical reactions.
The guide also outlines the necessity of naturally occurring necessities, that should be relied on instead due to no carbon footprint caused when extracting it as opposed to when using other means, such as the ocean to get salt, which creates a large carbon footprint in turn.
I also learned how only 2 miners are now present, with everything else in automation, allowing the mine to be economically viable, due to the decreased cost in the long run. This points out the pros of automation and how it can create a much cheaper and efficient work force.
On the 19th if February, we visited CERN where we had a tour of the multiple laboratories that play a major role in the particle accelerator that encompasses a very large area. Visiting this area allowed me insight on the more mechanical side of engineering and how many different aspects and designs are used together to provide the most efficient means of the task at hand. For instance, linear and cyclotronic acceleration are used at various areas, linear at the beginning in order to provide the particle with speed and hence it will have the velocity to travel round the bend in the circular pathway.
I also gained insight of very interesting, and very unknown insight of physics, specifically the dark matter and energy. It was exciting to see the physicists there begin to research more into dark matter, something that makes up as much as 28% of our universe as opposed to the 5% of visible matter. On the tour of the different building, I also had the chance to review the work they are doing with anti-protons, anti-electrons and anti-hydrogen, as I got to see first hand the accelerator used in these experiments, one of which is the formation of anti-hydrogen where 2 anti-electrons and one anti-protons in pushed together using electric fields, in order to form anti-hydrogen, this is then excited to a higher energy state, and the particle released is used to determine the weight of anti-hydrogen. This particularly interested me because of my knowledge of exciting electrons to a higher energy state that I gained during my AS level physics studies.
The use of anti-protons experiment also took place by the spinster of multiple hospitals, to treat cancer cells. This showed me further in real life application outside of physics that could help many others. The anti proton was also seen as more effective at destroying cancer cells, however the expense is too much currently for use in every hospital.
During the talk before the tour, a physiatrist name ‘Mac’ showed me of the percentages of physicists to engineers and was surprised to find out how many more engineers and IT department staff were there compared to physiatrist, and also how crucial they are, which interests me due to my interest in energy seeing, but I didn’t before think of working in a workplace with a relatively high number of physicist.
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