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Primary School Students become Engineers for a day

The Faculty of Engineering and Computing hosted Engineers Week for the fifth running here in DCU. The aim of the week is to create awareness and enthusiasm about the engineering profession and engineering as a career. Faculty staff and students welcomed over 300 primary school students aged 10 - 14 on campus for a week and got them involved in exciting engineering demonstrations. Activities including how to build a robot, how to build a car were two of the activities run by Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. The children also had a chance to see activities from Electronic Engineering such as Digital imaging and hydrogen powered cars. Once the hydrogen cars were built and fully fuelled, the cars competed against each other so see which group had the car that kept running for the longest time. The excitement of the race could be heard throughout the building! The students particularly loved the solar powered bugs and had great fun watching how they bounce around purely on solar power.

Year on year the event has been a great success and yet again we were fully booked for 2012!

For more information contact Christine.stears@dcu.ie