Canterbury Campus Answers Day
We think Open Days are really about finding answers to all your university questions. Come and visit our Answers Day and ask us anything you want to know.
9am - 3pm
Canterbury Campus
We are living in an age of rapid technological change where so much of what affects our lives has been engineered.
Our events are designed to unlock students’ creative potential and give an insight into studying Engineering and Computing at Canterbury Christ Church University. It also provides students with an understanding of the extensive career opportunities within this industry. Events can take place at our new multimillion-pound facility for Science, Engineering, Technology and Health, and some at your school or college.
To allow enough time for us to put everything in place for these events we ask for a minimum of 5 weeks notice from receiving the booking request to your 1st preference date of activity.
Talks
General Engineering:
An inspirational talk on the world of engineering.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12 - 13 / FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-51 |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Location: | Campus or Virtually |
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About AI
| Date: | Tues/Wed/Thurs |
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| Year group: | Year 7-13 |
| Group size: | 20-200 |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Location: | Campus or Virtually |
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This workshop provides a great opportunity for students to learn the basic mechanical design of a boat driven by wind energy. It would help students to understand the engineering projects on renewable energy and they can improve their hands-on skill through the engaging activity.
| Date: | Tues/ Wed / Thur |
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| Year group: | Year 7-13 |
| Group size: | 20-200 |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Location: | Campus or Virtually |
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Taster sessions, talks and activities
Chemical Engineering:
The audience is introduced to the concept of surface tension in a friendly way. In this hands-on session a drop of a commercial household chemical is added to the surface of water entrapped within a corner of a floating paper boat. The water surface breaks apart as an elastic, ejecting the boat quite fast. Each boat has a different design, and it is selected by teams of participants. The session ends up as an unforgettable boat race using the tension of water molecules instead of electricity or fuels.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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An inspirational talk about Chemical Engineers.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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This workshop aims at understanding the interplay between the properties of the powder grains and the characteristics of the liquid flow used to disperse them, in order to obtain a uniform dispersion and avoiding lump formation which is a common issue in industrial processes and in the household.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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A talk about powders and particulate solids: introduction to powder flow and the importance of understanding the flow behaviour for industrial applications.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12 / Year 13 / FE Level 3 yr 1 / FE Level 3 yr 2 |
| Group size: | 30 |
| Duration | 1 hour or as part of a 4 hour campus taster day |
| Location: | Campus or Virtually |
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Mechanical Engineering:
This workshop aims to share the University’s expertise in Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D Printing with local young people to help them learn about CAD design software and how to use it effectively for 3D Printing.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | Max 15 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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This workshop provides a great opportunity for students to learn the basic mechanical design of artificial robotic hands. It would help students to analyse the core engineering principle behind the project and they can improve their hands-on skills through the engaging activity.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus |
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Talk about applying engineering in sports and opportunity to explore different applications of engineering.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 1 room |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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A talk on material characteristics and behaviour for engineering applications.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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The workshop provides students with an opportunity to train an industry-started 7 DOF robot for moving between points or picking and placing objects. These types of activities can be used as supportive household activities such as feeding and door handling.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 10, Year 11, Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus |
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Biomedical Engineering:
This workshop will provide students with an opportunity to get familiar with different types of biosensors such EMG, flex sensors, and accelerometers to monitor and record human activity recognition through the Arduino controller module.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12 and Year 13 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus |
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Computing:
Please note that this event can only be booked from January 2024 due to academic availability.
Taking ‘junk’ adding motors and power to make it move.
- Stage 1: Taking the ‘junk’ and playing with adding motors to it; to experiment with making it move.
- Stage 2: By adding pens can it be made to ‘draw’ ? Well draw squiggly lines.
- Stage 3: By using a Crumble Controller and software can a little bit a control be added to the drawing bot. Aim is to combine physical computing and sustainability.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-55 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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To conceive, design and implement a website design as a wireframe, while students make use of the CDIO process.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-56 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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To conceive, design and implement a user persona that can be used to test where a given product or service meets the needs of their intended audience. This will be done using the four CDIO stages to introduce the related concepts.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 12, Year 13 and FE Level 3 |
| Group size: | 20-50 |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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To investigate online presence and the data that is "out there".
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Y7+ |
| Group size: | 15+ |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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To conceive and design an app to make your life better - intro to software development.
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Y7-13 |
| Group size: | 15+ |
| Location | University Campus or Virtually |
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How social media companies use big data to understand users and fuel their success.
| Date: | Wed/Thurs |
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| Year group: | Y7-13 |
| Group size: | 15+ |
| Location | Virtually, Webinar |
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Hands on with using MongoDB as a document object store in python.
| Date: | Autumn term/Spring term weekdays |
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| Year group: | Year 9 to 13 |
| Group size: | 1 room |
| Location | University Campus or in School |
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Please note that this event can only be booked from January 2024 due to academic availability.
Students will conceive, design and implement sticky LEDs that blink before thinking about three different ways these can be used.- They will then learn about electronics and problem-solving.- by thinking about different ways they can be used (e.g. jewellery)
| Date: | Variable, depending on the availability of the academic. |
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| Year group: | Year 7 to 13 |
| Group size: | 50 |
| Duration | 1 hour or as part of a 4 hour campus taster day |
| Location: | Campus |
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Undergraduate and postgraduate open events
Subject talks and videos
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