Welcome to Materials
Discover more about the Department of Materials: its world-leading facilities, fantastic outreach activities and groundbreaking events.
I’m an Engineer, Get Me Out of Here (Guest blog)
Welcome to Materials 7th October 2015
Hello all – and thanks for coming back to the blog (or for coming for the first time, if that’s the case!). The audience has been growing recently, and I’m really grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read the blog posts. Those of you who have been coming back for a while might remember […]
DFB Degree Show – student interviews
Welcome to Materials 6th August 2015
So, who remembers one of my earliest posts on the blog? The one where I went along to the Design, Fashion, and Business degree show and talked to a few of the students about their final year projects? Well we had a fair few questions for them on the day, and over the last week […]
National Women in Engineering Day
Welcome to Materials 9th July 2015
On June 23rd, or National Women in Engineering Day to those in the know, I attended a Women in Materials event, co-hosted by the School of Materials and The Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3). Grace Burke opened proceedings, discussing her career so far and the decisions that have led to her role as Director […]
At the Open Days
Welcome to Materials 25th June 2015
Part of the reason we attended the Open Day was to encourage interaction with our #BetterWorld campaign. If you aren’t already aware, the School of Materials is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Within the Faculty we cover subjects ranging from materials to chemical engineering, via physics, maths, chemistry, civil engineering, and […]
At the Design, Fashion, and Business Degree Show
Welcome to Materials 29th May 2015
I was here for the Design, Fashion, and Business Degree show. What I found within these walls was a vibrant and informative event, filled with interesting people who were well and truly excited by the projects they’d put together here in the School of Materials. What I also found was a group of people who […]