Enginuity Day activities
Here are the activities designed to help you get hands-on with Engineering during Enginuity.
| Specialisation | Activity |
|---|---|
| Biomedical |
MedTech heart: A web-based 3D beating heart for analysing heart diseases using image-based mathematical modelling. Kiwifruit for bigger muscles: Discover how an enzyme in kiwifruit helps digest proteins, and explore the use of mathematics to understand enzyme reactions. Muscle electrophysiology: measure the electrical activity of muscles then use this to drive a prosthetic and interface with computers. |
| Chemical and Materials |
Chocolate noodles: This fun and edible activity explores chocolate and how it can processed into noodles with pressure. Clean water for all: a hands-on activity on how to transform dirty water to clean water with membrane technology. |
| Civil | Drinking water cleanup: Discover the importance of treating freshwater and measuring the water quality before distributing drinking water to households and other places. Treat freshwater using varying concentrations of coagulant and observe the clumping of the contaminants and their separation from water. Then determine the quality of the water such as turbidity and pH. |
| Computer Systems | The Amazing Robot Race: Learn about how computer systems, like robots, can be useful in many domains like healthcare, speech, and orchard harvesting. You will gain first-hand experience on the importance of software engineering to enable robots to function in these domains. You will make design decisions, develop code and race your robot to the finish line! |
| Electrical | Signal sleuth: Explore noise cancellation and work with sound files to extract multiple, previously hidden, messages. You will have the opportunity to manipulate your own sound files, perhaps even your speech. |
| Engineering Science | Diamond cut optimization: To get the best price for a diamond you want it make it as big as possible. If you know the orientation (ie, angles of rotation) of the cut diamond within the raw diamond you can calculate the largest diamond using optimisation. Choose the best orientation and the optimisation software will find the biggest cut diamond. Water bell experiments: Unlike solids which tend to be pretty static, all liquids flow form one place to another, sometimes in weird and wonderful ways. Learn how to predict what fluids will do. |
| Mechanical | Gravity for good: Access to electricity should be easy, affordable and sustainable. You will design a gear-driven machine that relies on gravity to power an electric light source. You can also use the light to decode secret messages and win prizes. |
| Mechatronics | Helping hands: Autonomous robots in hospitals can help our overworked nurses. You will write code to control a model VEX robot such that it autonomously navigates a hospital to pick up and deliver medical supplies. You can also try riding a robot, aka The Segway. |
| Software | Think like a software user: This activity aims to give you a taste of software design. We will design and create prototypes for a mobile app. Bring your creativity and empathy and learn about how to create usable software products. |
| Structures | Principle of seismic design: build a structure Geotechnical engineering demonstrations |