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View from Come the evolution! 5 Spreading the word 14 the Chair 4 In his latest book review, Colin Ledsome Some UK-based universities are forming Preaching to the CEng FIED considers an intriguing take on ever closer associations with their converted how consumer products come of age counterparts in other countries. The University of Nottingham is one Wright Hassall 22 COVER STORY On questions of The scent of victory 6 Riding the wave 16 paternity and plot The formidable BLOODHOUNDSSC has the Surf Snowdonia – Wavegarden’s first twists in the galaxy of 1,000mph land speed target in its sights – commercial lagoon – has been built out of intellectual property and the final countdown has begun. Here, the ground to create ideal conditions for chief engineer Mark Chapman recounts to surfing, body boarding and kayaking GYM news 24 editor Brian Wall the journey taken to reach GYM makes a pledge this historic moment Upskilling engineering workforce 20 to champion the cause How potent is the case for introducing of members in 2016 Engineering thrills 12 a Professional Registration Mentoring Designing a rollercoaster, with all its twists Scheme? Very strong, it is argued here IED News 29 and turns, and complex challenges, delivers The New Chartership a great opportunity to turn to modern Student power! 26 for Product Designers analytical tools – and is no doubt (literally) A team of students has broken the human- is proving to be part of the attraction. Justin Cunningham powered British land speed record in the a roaring success reports on more than the nuts and bolts machine they designed and built themselves

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guess this will fall upon your doormat or into your ‘inbox’ just as we enter a new year – traditionally when we often take time to reMect upon our situation and make plans for change. The government, certainly, are looking for change within our sector. Following the publication of the Perkins’I Review of Engineering Skills, it published its ‘Science and Innovation Strategy’ in December 2014. The Perkins report recognised the acute shortage of engineers and made a total of 18 recommendations. EngineeringUK in its 2015 report, ‘The State of Engineering’, conLrmed these shortages: “Within the Preaching engineering-related demand, 56,000 jobs per year will be needed at level 3 (Advanced Apprenticeships) and 107,000 to the per year at level 4+ (HND/C, foundation degree, undergraduate or postgraduate and equivalent). “Yet current Lgures show that only 26,000 people are converted entering engineering occupations with level 3 Advanced Apprenticeships and only 82,000 at level 4+,” it stated. Could engineering conversion courses The Perkins’ report also advises: “…to tackle short-term pressures, we should invite employers to come forward with be part of the solution to bridge the UK’s innovative proposals for developing skills in areas of acute shortage of engineers? IED Chair shortage, for example by creating rapid conversion courses Tania Humphries-Smith considers the for those who have studied subjects other than engineering arguments – and also the imperative that nonetheless provide good foundations for engineering”. Following this recommendation, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) commissioned a report, ‘Transition to Engineering: Engineering conversion courses for graduates with a non-engineering Lrst-degree’ (http://bit.ly/1lJFovh), published in September last year, while a call for universities to bid for funding to develop such courses has now closed. It is interesting to note the EngineeringUK report also sets out the nature of engineering employment in the UK: “…most engineering enterprises (97.1%) are either small or micro and, overall, 86.9% of engineering enterprises have fewer than 10 employees. However, while companies with at least 250 employees represented 0.4% of all engineering enterprises, they employ over two Lfths (42.4%) of those working in engineering enterprises”. So, what does all this mean for our profession? How do we feel about engineering conversion courses? Would you employ someone from a conversion course? The IED has always been open to non-standard registrants and is committed to working with higher education institutions to ensure such courses do produce graduates that meet the needs of industry and the requirements of Engineering Council registration. Potentially, graduates from non-traditional routes will offer a new and broader range of skills and approaches to the engineering sector.

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evolution of products. This should allow the prediction of the direction of change and indicate the factors Come the contributing to a sustainable design likely to produce desirable products for the foreseeable future. This book should be of interest to designers across evolution! the spectrum, and a useful text for product design and engineering courses. The patterns explored here are Colin Ledsome CEng FIED considers an also familiar in most product types, from aircraft and intriguing take on how consumer products bridges to trains and architecture. A good example is come of age marine cargo transportation, with developments from random boxes through to bulk carriers and specialist liquid carriers, and the current dominance of the ubiquitous standard container. Robin Roy is Emeritus Professor of Design and his book sets out to illustrate how different Environment at the OU. types of consumer product evolve in a pattern of similar phases and how to use that understanding to help make further design decisions.T It begins by looking at those phases: •A divergent experimental phase – here, a wide range of configurations are explored after an initial invention shows that ways of achieving the function are possible •The dominant design phase – one particular solution is shown to be the most desirable (either as the most efficient or the one customers prefer) and becomes the only available choice. This evolves much more slowly, with only small, often cosmetic, variations from the main concept •The innovative phase – here, new materials and manufacturing methods allow variations to the dominant design and the evolution of special designs for niche markets. These phases are illustrated by the evolution of the bicycle: from the first ‘Velocipede’, via the diamond frame solution, dominant for 50 years, to modern carbon fibre racers and recumbent bicycles. The main body of the book follows the same phases in some detail in the evolution of five familiar product types: washing machines, lamps and lighting, television, vacuum cleaners, and mobile phones. These examples are well illustrated with a range of early competing configurations, the reasons a particular design became Author ISBN dominant and the current options being explored, with Robin Roy ISBN 978-0-415-86997-3 Publisher (hardback) their advantages and disadvantages compared to the Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-86998-0 dominant design. Publication date (paperback) ISBN 978-1-315-71972-6 The final chapter pulls all this together into clear 2016 (ebook) messages, to designers and others, on the importance Reviewer of identifying and exploring the current stage of the Colin Ledsome CEng FIED SUPERSONIC ENGINEERING

The Scent of Victory

BLOODHOUND SSC will aim to set a new land as on Thrust SSC [two afterburning Rolls- speed record of 800mph this year – exactly Royce Spey turbofan engines]”. Thrust SSC holds the current World Land Speed 19 years after the current record of 763mph was Record, set on 15 October 1997, when set. That goal achieved, it will have the 1,000mph it achieved that speed of 763mph and target in its sights. Here, chief engineer Mark became the Mrst car to ofMcially break the sound barrier. Chapman recounts to editor Brian Wall the journey taken to reach this historic moment INSPIRATIONAL THINKING The decision was taken to go to the then Minister of Defence Procurement, Lord his was never about Drayson, to see if he would support the increasing the world land project and get them access to a EURJET speed record by, say, 20 to EJ200 engine, a highly sophisticated 30 miles an hour, which is military turbofan normally found in the “Tmore or less what the increments have engine bay of a EuroMghter Typhoon and been in the past, but to really push it out the most modern of its kind within the RAF of reach – to 1,000 miles per hour.” at that time. “That wasn’t possible,” That statement of intent from he recalls, “but he suggested taking a BLOODHOUND SSC’s chief engineer Mark different approach. Britain has a huge Chapman sums up the way the team has shortage of engineers, mathematicians, approached this quest from the outset: scientists and technicians. So, if the to aim high and big. “The challenge is project’s main aim was, rather than a mighty one, even to the point of, ‘Is it breaking the land speed record, to possible?’” he acknowledges. “The stimulate and educate kids about these existing record is 763mph, so we’re talking professions, then he would see what about a 30% jump, which would be the he could do.” largest single leap in history.” With that agreed, the project was ‘go’. Yet there is never the hint of doubt in Soon BLOODHOUND SSC had the loan of his voice that failure is an option. Indeed, three ex-Flight Test engines from the UK’s the BLOODHOUND SSC team have Typhoon programme. “The reality is that we demonstrated a dogged determination from wouldn’t be here today, aiming for this the beginning to put together a car that record, if we hadn’t committed to this being leaves anything designed previously an inspirational and open science project.” Noundering in its wake. That car is now all Chapman came on board full-time in Chief engineer Mark but ready and the journey to the start line February 2008 and the project launched Chapman: a massive drive has been a compelling one, as Chapman publicly that October – coincidentally, a few to promote engineering to recounts. “With 1,000mph the goal, we weeks after the Lehman Brothers Mnancial the next generation. quickly discounted using the same engines collapse; not the best timing for going to

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BLOODHOUND SSC was shown publicly recently in record attempt conDguration, with its 2m high the traditional sources of corporate tail Dn, required for stability at high speed, in place for the Drst time. Carbon Dbre panels had sponsorship. “Any potential prospects that been partially removed on one side, in order to show the technology inside the car, including the we had at the time simply evaporated,” Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine and supercharged Jaguar V8 engine used to pump oxidiser into the Nammo rocket. Chapman conMrms. Inside the Dnished cockpit could be seen a huge and complex monocoque crafted from However, the total shift of emphasis multiple layers of carbon Dbre to produce what is probably the strongest safety-cell ever Dtted to a away from the project being all about racing car. Inside, there is a sophisticated digital dashboard, designed by driver Andy Green, as breaking the record to one that was far well as manual back-ups for the major controls. more altruistic in nature quickly blunted any The car has been created by a team of Formula 1 and aerospace experts, with assistance from perceptions of ‘spin’ that might have been the Army’s Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and technicians from the RAFs 71 laid at its door. “Instead, a momentum was Squadron, who built the tail Dn. After the long build-up, the time for action is not far off, as project director Richard Noble created that has now seen young people conDrms: “With the car now built and the track in South Africa prepared, our focus is on racing in coming through their A levels and into 2016. That part of the adventure starts with runway tests at Newquay Aerohub this Easter.” university courses whose ideas on what engineering and science represented was altered six to seven years ago when the had been proposed wasn’t going to work. It have a very small decision-making team, BLOODHOUND SSC project was launched.” had a bifurcated intake, a bit like a Hawk Mve people, so you can make fairly radical It was this approach that won the jet-powered trainer aircraft would have, and, changes very, very quickly, if you get BLOODHOUND SSC project wide support, setting the quality of airNow to the fan- consensus within the group,” points out ensuring the funding needed was faced engine, we just couldn’t get that to Chapman. forthcoming, with sponsorship and function properly. What was agreed at this point involved donations from individual members of the “The steering was very much like two major rethinks: changes to the front public, right through to global enterprises. ThrustSSC, and it had tandem wheels, but steering and wheel design, and also to “Every last bit of money raised goes this time it was at the front. As a package, swap over the conMguration of the car. “The towards helping us create something that worked really well for getting a narrow- very early car had a rocket on top and a jet special, with a lasting legacy of inspiration fronted area, but as far as the stability and engine underneath, and we were struggling for our future generation of scientists and dynamics were concerned, it was very with some structural stiffness and stability engineers,” he states with some pride. challenging. So, between February and April issues when we turned the rocket on and 2008, there was a huge change in the then off. The question that emerged from CHANGE OF DIRECTION concept of the car – from something that that was: ‘Why have you got the rocket on What of the car itself – how did today’s was over 20 metres long to a car that, if top?’, to which the response was: ‘Oh, it’s sleek machine come into being? “In 2007, you squinted, looked pretty much like the always been that way.’ Also, it had always there was a very early scheme of the car, one we have now, which is just under 14 been quite small, but, as the project with myself and Brian Coombs metres. And that difference was mainly progressed, it got bigger and bigger.” [BLOODHOUND SSC Engineering Lead - driven by the way the front wheels were laid Mechanical Design] brought in to come up out in the early version.” RECONFIGURED CAR with the detailed design. My background How hard was it to make these dramatic At the end of 2008-early 2009, the is aerospace and his motorsport, so we switches in thinking and then set off in a BLOODHOUND SSC team recognised it had divvied up the car between us. But it very different direction? “The beauty with to alter its approach. “We just said, ‘Let’s became apparent the whole packaging that a project like this and its delivery is that we swap them [the rocket and engine] over.’

www.ied.org.uk 7 Within two weeks, we had completely reconMgured the car. If we had been a large organisation, there would have been trade studies and two or three separate teams working on the car, each with competing designs. With us, being a small team where everyone had an equal vote, you can very quickly shift and make radical changes, as we did.” The upshot was that the rocket came off the top of the car, to be repackaged underneath, while the jet engine was raised slightly. “That is the conMguration we have now. What we’d been struggling with was the pitching movement of turning the rocket on. As you did that, you ended up with around 4 tonnes of download at the front, basically pivoting from a 27,000 lb thrust rocket, driving the nose into the ground.” That involved raising the front aerodynamic surfaces to generate lift, in order to hold the nose up. This is perfectly acceptable, states Chapman – provided that you don’t have a systems failure. “Then you would be in a situation where you are generating lift to keep the car of gravity hardly moved up at all. Now we a car that we thought was pretty much stable and faced with the prospect that you could put hoops all along the top of the stable. However, when we turned the rocket are going to run out of fuel in 17 seconds; structure, so the rear of the car started and the jet over, all of a sudden the car and you are generating 4 tonnes of lift to look much more like a conventional became unstable and we couldn’t work out at the front. So you would have a very aerospace structure – and that increased intuitively where that instability was coming unstable situation. From that perspective, massively the stiffness of the car.” through. We had gone from a car that was the new conMguration makes a lot of relatively stable throughout the MACH 1 sense, but we’d always put it off, as we had STABILITY CHALLENGES range to one that was generating 11 assumed the centre of gravity would rise But the most challenging aspect in getting tonnes of lift – and we just didn’t have the too much by putting the jet engine on top. the car’s design right came immediately time to revisit all that work.” But the way that the rocket packaged afterwards. “We had carried out ten “A couple of changes were made that underneath, it Mtted really nicely. The centre aerodynamic design conMgurations to get didn’t make things a whole lot better. So

PRETENDERS TO THE CROWN

It’s an extraordinary time for the World Land Speed record, with a number of teams globally aiming to run the world’s fastest car over the next few years. “Suddenly, we’re entering another ‘golden age’ for the world land speed record,” says BLOODHOUND SSC’s man-behind-the-wheel, Royal Air ForceCDghter pilotCWing Commander Andy Green, right. “Between Thrust2 and ThrustSSC, Britain has held the record for just over 30 years and there’s nothing quite like the promise of losing it – or actually losing it – to keep us focused. Great Britain has held the World Land Speed Record for longer than every other country, since the Drst record was set in 1898, and we’re not going to let it go without a Dght!” “However, the importance of having challengers is much wider than just a nationalistic one. We are setting off on an ‘Engineering Adventure’, to inspire and excite a generation of young people about science and technology, and the competition will make the ‘Adventure’ so much more exciting. BLOODHOUND is our solution to the problem of the ultimate race car, but it’s not the only solution. “The wonderful and unique thing about this sport,” adds Green, “is that there really are no constraints on car design – a very far cry from the over-regulated and over-argumentative world of Formula 1, where all the best technology is kept secret, design is constrained by the rules and they have to paint the cars different colours, so that we can tell them apart.... For BLOODHOUND, the more competition that we have, the bigger the variety of different solutions that we can discuss in our education programme.”

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we took a step back. We had used to set that to the optimum – and that was the 1,000mph challenge – something that technical designer experiments on the the rear wheel track. “This had the greatest would have virtually impossible, if it had wheel design, because it hadn’t been easy signiMcance on the lift at the back.” tried to deliver the project on its own. to come up with something that would hold The other Mve were much more subtle, “So, for example, the rear end of the car together. Happily, these experiments but mostly they related to the fact that the was being made by an aerospace company. allowed us to come up with a wheel that rear of the car tails in; so it was really all For the Mn tail, we had come up with a was far more stable. So we decided to about where that started, and how far up tubular structure, but that was very much apply the same approach to the and down the car, and that was sensitive to against how they would normally work. So aerodynamics. Over the next 2-3 months, within 15 centimetres. we sat down with them and came up with we carried out a set of studies to Mnd the “If it was 15 centimetres out, you would a much more conventional aerospace-type key parameters that drove the lift at the have a car that generates a huge amount construction that would fall into what their rear of the car. We came up with Mve of lift. It emerged that the problem related production line capability was. design features that gave us that lift and to how the shockwaves were interacting on “And so the whole car is, necessarily, used the designer experiments to come up the rear structure of the car, with some a constant compromise throughout. But with an equation that gave us the new very subtle alterations in angle and that is the reality. There is no point in giving design at the back of the car. projected surface areas that were hugely a manufacturer a brief that is outside its That was the breakthrough. “Within powerful in generating lift or downforce.” normal remit. We work closely with a three weeks, we had gone from a car that number of defence and motor sport had 11 tonnes of lift to one that was CHOOSING THE MATERIALS contractors, and quite often it’s the other actually stable throughout the MACH What about the materials selected for the way round, in that they will want to work to number range. And it wasn’t a shape that car? “Material choice was a critical part of a level that gives us a far better product we would have been naturally drawn to, but the whole project,” he says. “When the than we might have envisaged, while also you could think through logically why that original schemes were put together, the being far more efMcient for them.” one worked. We just didn’t have the ability logical idea was to build it very much like to iterate enough designs sufMciently a traditional land speed record car with SOFTWARE FACTOR quickly to be able to do that ourselves. a welded space frame chassis that would Not surprisingly, the BLOODHOUND SSC Instead, we used a computer solution to have bodywork panels attached – the team also rely heavily on computational come up with a suggestion and the idea quickest, simplest solution. Yet, by working tools when working on the design of the was we would revise that. But, actually, with an array of high-proMle partners and car, such as Siemens PLM [product what it came up with was so good that biasing the design towards their design lifecycle management] and Altair we stuck with it.” skills, BLOODHOUND has been able to pick Hyperworks for stress analysis. “Within Of the six features that controlled the and choose from the best technologies Hyperworks, we also use Optistruct for rear lift, one was so powerful the team had when creating the optimum car to take on structural design and optimisation.

www.ied.org.uk 9 SUPERSONIC AND BEYOND Basically, we use these tools to a lesser or greater extent to get as close to an answer The Land Speed Record is motorsport distilled to its most fundamental elements: distance versus as possible, rather than having teams of time. First electricity and steam fought it out; then came the internal combustion automobile people working on trade studies. engine. That fell victim to its much more powerful aeronautical counterpart before that, too, was “We are also very fortunate to work with dismissed to the pages of history by turbojet and rocket engines. Swansea University, which has a suite of Accelerate through from the record speed of 39.24mph set in December 1898 to more recent times and you see how the record – driven by giant technological advances – transformed this CFD [computational Nuid dynamics] quest to be the best. In October 1970, Gary Gabelich’s Blue Flame ushered in the rocket era with software called Flight 3D, which was 622.407mph. Richard Noble’s Thrust2 regained the record for Britain at 633.468mph on October actively validated off the back of ThrustSSC 1983 and there things settled – until his ThrustSSC, driven by Royal Air ForceCDghter pilotCWing – the only code validated for supersonic Commander Andy Green, reached 714.144mph in September 1997. That was just a prelude, Now and ground effect. BLOODHOUND however. On October 15, Green became the Drst man ever to exceed the speed of sound at ground has been able to tap into the university’s level, at a blistering 763.035mph. He remains the only supersonic speed king in history. research code, which is continuously being developed. So, when we start running in South Africa [at Hakskeen Pan in the both in terms of manpower and Mnancially, and the upper car a titanium skin on Northern Cape], with 180 pressure sensors so we only do that kind of testing on parts aluminium ribs. “Stiffness and frequency is on the car, again we will be comparing, run we see as absolutely critical. But also we more important to us than the strength,” per run, against what the CFD is predicting. aren’t asking them to perform to their says Chapman. “We are trying to make And then we will update the models as we ultimate loads from day one. For example, everything as light as possible. But get real data and correlate what the when Andy Green starts to drive the car, he ultimately stiffness is what is key. The car computer is suggesting.” will be at 200mph in the UK, progressing to has 8.9 metres between the wheels, with For Finite Element Analysis (FEA), the 800mph; then in year 2, up to 1,000mph. some big suspended masses within that, project uses Altair Hyperworks suite, as So, in a way, the car becomes the moving as well as some slightly unknown input well as NASTRAN Annexe within the test bed.” The front third of the car, the frequencies. If you were running an aircraft Siemens CAD software. “But, again, monocoque, is carbon composite; the or a car, you would have an input spectrum physically testing components is costly, lower rear is a steel skin on aluminium ribs of frequencies going into that.

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what the shockwaves would do when interacting with the desert, so we have a very good idea about that now. And we are unique, really, compared to the other world record attempts going on at the moment, in that we do have this huge core of knowledge within the team that has come from ThrustSSC.” At the same time, he admits there are bound to be things the team has not yet thought of – what he calls a huge list of ‘known unknowns’. “We call the whole thing an adventure, recognising we will run into issues that will have to be dealt with as they come at us. This is the whole idea about having a progressive run programme from 200mph up to 800mph in 2016. We will Mnd these out along the way.” Testing to 200mph in the ‘Mnal’ car will take place in Newquay, Cornwall. “After that, we will reconMgure the car, so it will be running with the jet alone, and we will also put in place the rocket system. Then we head off to the desert in South Africa towards mid-summer, with a view to breaking the current land speed record, gradually incrementing the speed across a 3-4 month window. We then come back Inside Andy Green’s supersonic 1,000mph ‘office’. to the UK, make the changes we need to – there’s a larger thrust rocket we put in for year 2 – to take us up to 1,000mph.” June/July 2017 should see the “However, we did some very early more drag. We are going for the option that beginning of BLOODHOUND SSC’s assault studies of wheel hop frequencies, and what allows us, hopefully, to achieve 1,000mph, on that formidable target, with the all-out chassis frequencies we could accept, and but in a completely passive way. You can go assault likely to take place around October. we really wanted to be in an order of through the car and see that it is never But what if that target proved to be a step magnitude of 10 away from a wheel hop perfect in any area, but to aim for that too far? What if the car ‘only’ reached, say, frequency to a chassis mode primary would be the wrong thing to do, because 908mph? “Our goal all along has been to frequency. With such a long structure, to then you will have hurt some other function inspire a generation. If we come out of this get that order of magnitude separation you you need. The idea was to have an project showcasing how good British end up needing a very, very stiff structure, aerodynamically neutral vehicle throughout engineering is, that will be fantastic. And which has driven stiffness to be the main the speed range.” And is that going to whatever that record is, it will have been factor. Also, deNection is vital to this, deliver the dream? “The shape we have the biggest leap in land speed history.” because, with 8.9 metres between the arrived at is the one we are building and we Amongst the unknowns, here is one wheel base, you don’t need much are conMdent that is the one that will get certainty: the record achieved, it won’t be deNection to make signiMcant differences, us the record this year.” easy for anyone to break that again. But it in terms of how close the base of the car That means breaking the current record is the educational legacy that will matter gets to the desert.” of 763mph, set back in September 1997 most. “We don’t need a generation of There are always design compromises by BLOODHOUND SSC’s current driver, supersonic car designers. We do need along the way when it comes to what you Royal Air ForceOMghter pilotOWing a new generation of young people who are would have in an ideal world and what you Commander Andy Green. It will be a excited by science and engineering. That must settle for in the real one, he points momentous achievement – one vital step has been the greatest goal of all.” out. “As far as the intake on the jet engine towards the ultimate objective. “Beyond For more on the BLOODHOUNDSSC Project, is concerned, we would like to have that [exceeding 763mph], we are so far go to: http://www.bloodhoundssc.com a different size, but we have chosen to outside what is known when we go optimise it at MACH 1.2. Below that, we between 800 and 1,000mph. With See how BLOODHOUNDSSC was designed: are inefMcient, in that we struggle to get ThrustSSC, when they broke the sound http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/news/video- enough air in; and, above that, we generate barrier, they had some real concerns about building-bloodhound

www.ied.org.uk 11 Designing a rollercoaster, with its complex challenges, is something many of us would like to have a go at. And the opportunity to turn to modern analytical tools is no doubt (literally) part of the attraction. Justin Cunningham reports

Engineering thrills

e all remember a good stomach many have come to love. Now environment.” Ride Tek has had much rollercoaster. The speed, design engineers are having to answer the success in delivering various rollercoasters bumps, twists and turns calls of those intent on building ever more to theme parks around the world. To date, create a powerful feeling of thrilling rides. Faster, higher, more loops, Begotti has designed more than fifty, with Welation and the urge to get back on. This is various ‘seating’ positions – from being countless patents to his name. the hope, at least, for those whose day job stood up to laying Eat like superman – and Tenders can arrive to Ride Tek with little it is to design and engineer rollercoasters. even cars that rotate independently of the more than what looks like a squiggle. This It is a small club indeed, with relatively track. That means more options and more represents the layout of the track – often few companies and engineers actively calculations to create a better ride and and unsurprisingly produced by a layman. involved in the design of rides around the sensation than anyone else. The theme of the ride follows. This may be world. It’s surprising, especially considering The starting point for a rollercoaster is based on a film franchise or put together that last year there were nearly as many often the footprint within which it is to be as a standalone theme, like Oblivion at rollercoaster passengers as global airline built. As theme parks look to replace rides, Alton Towers, which introduces the passengers: an estimated 1 billion people an idea of the space becomes available. ‘experience’ as customers queue. threw their hands up, screaming aloud, to Next, it is usually market forces that drive It is then up to Ride Tek to deliver a enjoy that big first drop on the track. what the rollercoaster might be. For rollercoaster that satisfies both the design “It is very difficult to enter into this example, the park might want to bring in theme and a compelling track that is field,” says Marco Begotti, CEO of Ride Tex more families, so the ride will not aim to engineered accordingly. “Just having an Engineering, an Italian-based rollercoaster scare passengers quite so much. However, idea is not enough,” he points out. “You design consultancy. “But it is also very if the goal is to attract more teenagers, need to work inside rules and human difficult to exit from it, too. There are the ride will be that bit wilder, so that the factors, and such things. But the initial probably 20 engineers in Europe that do thrill seekers get their ‘airtime’ hit. this job and only a few companies around “The design driver is to attract the most the world.” To them falls the challenge of number of people to the park,” adds coming up with the complex designs and Begotti. “If you think it is most important to engineering challenges – all tightly catch families, you must improve those regulated and rightly so, of course. rides. If you have competitors around the The centrepiece of any rollercoaster area and want to do something really remains its slopes and what thrill seekers different, then you can create a new call ‘airtime’ – that is, the negative G-force rollercoaster that is higher and faster. It experienced when the train reaches the top isn’t so much what the people want, but of those hills, giving that feeling in the what is the best ride for this total

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can take without risk of injury? Yet many of ONE STEP BEYOND? those designing coasters, including Begotti, It’s not about reinventing the rollercoaster still feel there are areas left to exploit that as such – it’s about reinventing the seat. will leave passengers even more awestruck. This revolutionary design, on the right, from US-based Coaster Labs, will make riders COASTER COMMONALITY feel as if they’ve just been ejected from One common attribute on rollercoasters their seat mid-ride. The coaster appears as globally is the steel lattice structure that a normal train. However, at some point in supports the track as it weaves through the the track (probably during ‘airtime’) – air above. “These huge structural steel where negative G is experienced – an parts are impressive. So using the multi- ‘Ejector Seat’ will push riders up in to the body simulation software, we know a air, by as much as a metre. The riders’ feet certain layout and wall thickness of the will come completely off the floor and steel tubes will last, for example, the life of they’ll feel like they’ve been fired way up the rollercoaster; maybe thirty years.” into the sky. This is all part of the work to digitally coaster-lab.com verify designs right from the conception of a project. Here, any potential design is made into a virtual rollercoaster prototype, idea is one of the beautiful parts of the up to the more detailed design phase. which provides immediate feedback on the design process, as you feel like you are “This software we’ve created is unique and longitudinal, transverse and normal creating something. But it is a mix between completely dedicated to our field,” says acceleration forces felt by passengers and idea, creation and engineering that makes Begotti. “When I’m in the design phase, on the car, as well as any corresponding a good rollercoaster.” I have all the information relating to the structural loadings and stress build-up in With rides now embracing everything dynamics of the car and the people riding the steel structure as it rides along. from vertical drops to coasters that within it. I can understand immediately if The complexity involved in multi-body replicate the speed and acceleration of an there is a peak force on the head or neck, and finite element analysis models can F1 car, how do design engineers keep up to or any part of the body, and if something vary. In many cases, beam and shell speed? You might think that turning a needs changing or optimising. models are used to assess the stress and conceptual idea into a workable and “So we can make changes and then strain exerted on the cars and the steel deliverable rollercoaster design would be a recheck. When you arrive at the end of the structure on a particular layout. In other drawn-out process, but it is as frighteningly process, you know that 90% of the time the cases, where more detailed analysis is quick as the coasters themselves (well rollercoaster is done. It is optimised for the required, finite element brick models can almost), routinely taking three to four best acceleration and ride for passengers.” be developed. months to go from a rough sketch to With faster time to market, matched by “The numerical engineering simulation delivery of all the engineering drawings to bigger and better improvements, relatively is fundamental for reliable consideration of the manufacturer. large jumps are being made between the structures and components because Modern design tools have had a huge design iterations, which multi-body software life is at stake,” explains Begotti. part to play and for the several years Ride providers say is due to their computational Multi-body software provider Ansys Tek has been working with software powers. One key factor is the number of highlights the importance of using company Enginsoft to integrate its 3D iterations ithat can be analysed and simulation within the design process, as it CAD modelling software with a multi-body assessed in a short period of time. allows realistic comparison to the real simulation package to make the design “In the same time it would have taken world. Gary Panes, European marketing process faster, more efficient and allow 10 years ago to make one track, we can director at Ansys, comments: “The fact is, more innovation. It works much like a plug- propose three or four different tracks, with the products you design have to fit into the in and allows simulation to be carried out different kinds of cars, and simulate them real world. They will all experience multi- at the beginning of the ideas process, right all,” he expalins. “So the simulation physical forces... and have to survive them. process increases our ability to explore If you over design, you have higher material different ideas quickly.” costs, higher cost to market, inAated fuel And this is not only helping speed up costs and you are not being competitive. If the design and delivery of rollercoasters, you under design, then it’s worse: product but to push the physical boundaries as failures, warranty costs, legal ramifications well. Yet with some coasters pulling a and negative public image.” stomach-churning 1.7G, reaching a top www.ansys.com speed of 150mph and accelerating from www.ridetek.it 0-60mph in less than 2s (that’s faster than any production available supercar), surely This article is reprinted courtesy of Eureka there is not much more the average body magazine.

www.ied.org.uk 13 Some UK-based universities are forming ever closer associations with their counterparts in other countries. Dr Brian Parkinson BA PhD CEng MIET FIED and EurIng Professor Kevin Edwards BEng(Tech) MSc PhD CEng FIMechE FIMMM FIED(PCh) report on how the University of Nottingham has taken this bold step

SPREADING THE

he accreditation of university own international campuses, rather than go demonstrated a good ability in degree courses by recognised into partnership with existing universities. communicating their ideas and intentions. Tprofessional bodies is an The university Arst opened a campus in Walking around the campuses, it was indication of assurance that the Malaysia in 2000, before establishing a particularly noticeable how the architecture courses meet the standards set by the purpose-built campus in September 2005 of both sites reBected the characteristics profession. Importantly, the accreditation in Semenyih, Malaysia. In September of the UK campus – most of all the process gives universities a peer review or 2004, another campus was opened in the inclusion of a similar Trent Building clock independent means of evaluating and city of Ningbo, China, as part of a joint tower built from Portland stone, showing improving the quality of their courses. venture. Nottingham was the Arst foreign only slight variations in style. In the UK, the Engineering Council (EC) university to establish an independent sets and maintains the standards for the campus in China. In November 2014, an BETTER UNDERSTANDING engineering profession and also IED accreditation panel – two volunteer Being on the other side of the world, it determines the requirements for members and one member of staff – must be said that the use of a strong accreditation. The EC then licenses certain visited these two campuses, in response corporate identity did feel strange and in professional engineering Institutions (PEIs) to the university’s request for accreditation. complete contrast to the cultural variations to undertake accreditation within these It was in October 2008 that the IED Arst experienced outside each campus. strict requirements. accredited engineering courses taught at While such differences were felt more The IED is one of these institutions and the University of Nottingham, with a re- signiAcantly in China, we were assured that uses the accreditation process to assess accreditation carried out in April 2013. students had a better understanding of the whether specific university engineering Both accreditations were conducted jointly international perspective and far greater courses provide some, or all, of the with IMechE and IET, organised by the ability for working as members of a team, underpinning knowledge, understanding Engineering Accreditation Board (EAB). when compared to students in other and skills for eventual EC registration – for However, 2014 was the Arst time that the Chinese universities. example, Chartered Engineer (CEng). It IED had visited the university’s Engineering is one of three faculties at currently accredits engineering and product international campuses, where the IED each of the campuses, with a Department design courses at 42 universities, including panel was joined by a similar IMechE of Mechanical, Materials and six international ones. The engineering accreditation panel. The courses for which Manufacturing Engineering being common courses delivered by the University of IED accreditation was being sought by the to all three centres. The engineering Nottingham were already accredited by universities were BEng (Hons) and MEng courses started in Malaysia in 2005 and in the IED and the university wanted (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, and BEng China in 2011. The courses reBect those accreditations for similar courses delivered (Hons) Product Design and Manufacture. delivered at Nottingham, with the same at its new campuses in South East Asia. Both campuses are self-contained, timetable, content and examinations. offering a full range of academic and social However, Malaysia and China do not yet OWN CAMPUSES facilities. All courses are taught in English, allow students the Bexibility of being able The University of Nottingham has taken the with support available where needed. to choose between streams, offering bold step of building and establishing its Both academic staff and students speciAc subject variation built around

14 www.ied.org.uk Acknowledgements The panel members are grateful to Judith Grace, education and training manager, for the administrative support provided in organising the accreditation visits, which was both substantial and complex, and much more involved than normal visits.

Summary of accreditation visits in Malaysia and China 10-11 November 2014: University of Nottingham, Semenyih, Malaysia, Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering. Head of Department: Dr Cheah Siew Cheong BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering MEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering. 13-14 November 2014: University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering. Head of Department: Dr Yong Shi BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons) Product Design WORD and Manufacture.

The Malaysia Campus in Semenyih. computing facilities with all the necessary University of Nottingham established its own engineering software. Workshops and international campuses, rather than go into partnership with existing universities. laboratories offered a wide range of machines and equipment. The teaching and technical staffs were friendly and enthusiastic, and ready to answer questions raised by the panel. In meetings with students, we found them to be generally supportive of the facilities offered on campus, and particularly complimentary regarding the approachability and support offered by the academic and technical staff.

POSITIVE INFLUENCE A good level of industrial involvement was developing at both campuses, which was a core. Students may exchange between at Semenyih about 30 km. The campus already inBuencing the teaching and campuses for the second year of the BEng occupies a 101 acre site accommodating learning practices employed. In common course, and second and third years of the over 4,500 students. with most research-intensive universities, MEng course. To date, only students from Flying via Hong Kong, our next visit was the research Ands its way into teaching and the UK have taken this option, with some to the campus in China, situated in the is particularly evident in undergraduate deciding to study at the Malaysia campus. historic town of Ningbo, located near the student projects. There are Student It is anticipated more students will be eastern coast and south of Shanghai. Chapters at each campus, with the interested in exchanging when the courses Opened in 2006, this campus covers activities of the IED Student Chapter in are more established and student numbers 140 acres and has 5,000 students. China considered to be very impressive. grow. Both campuses offer a wide range of The number of IED student members The IED panel members covered some facilities, including residential housing for already at the China campus was also 16,500 miles during the two accreditation staff and students, restaurants and shops, encouraging. visits. Upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur – a dedicated sports complex, and fully In summary, the quality of development busy city scattered with skyscrapers and equipped teaching and research facilities. and delivery of the courses at these six-lane highways – almost the Arst sight University of Nottingham-based staff were international campuses reBects that you get as you travel along the busy also in attendance to support local staff at already seen at the University of highway that connects the airport with the each campus visit. Nottingham UK campus. The example set city is that of the Petronas Twin Towers, The facilities shown on both campuses may be one that others will choose to with the journey to the university campus were of a high standard and included follow in the future.

www.ied.org.uk 15 Wavegarden, the force behind the world’s longest man-made wave, is creating ideal conditions for surfing, body boarding and kayaking. Now the first commercial lagoon using its technology has opened in Snowdonia. Brian Wall looks at the design factors behind this spectacular happening

ngineer Josema Odriozola and any level of surfers anywhere in the do it in locations far away from the sports economist Karin Frisch world, no ocean required. Pursuing that ocean,” state Odriozola and Frisch. “We had a long-held shared vision – goal of seeking to reproduce the knew if we could first develop an efficient that artificial wave technology experience of surfing a wave in the ocean and easy-to-maintain class of wave wasE the future when it came to surfing. under ideal conditions, in 2005 the generator, we could overcome our biggest Both passionate surfers themselves, they engineering company Instant Sport was challenge: the high cost of building and wanted to recreate that same thrill and launched, dedicated to the design, operating a man-made wave. sensation for people not fortunate construction and sale of the wave pool “With this in mind, our research and enough to have an ocean break nearby, technology marketed under the brand development has remained focused on or where ocean waves are too crowded or ‘Wavegarden’. creating the new technologies required to of poor quality. minimise energy consumption, thus Their expertise was in designing REALISTIC EXPERIENCE limiting the costs of ongoing sports facilities – particularly skate parks “Our primary goal has always been to maintenance and continued investment.” – but they were equally convinced that create the most realistic surfing Different methods of producing man- world-class waves could be generated for experience in perfect waves – and even made waves have been tried, including

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“Preliminary computing simulations were nearly always used, but the majority of the tests were also run on real-size models. The underlying aim was to achieve the simplest, most efficient and reliable technology.”

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

linear and ‘endless’ circular waves, which Engineering Designer spoke to Wavegarden, the organisation behind the world’s longest man-made wave and custom-designed surfing lagoons, for further clarification on a number of aspects: have all been tested on various bottom ED: What are the influencing factors when deciding what the shape of the actual pool should be? surfaces. “This has involved many The most important factors are the type of wave that we want to make in a single lagoon (for experts, models and on different scales,” they intermediates and beginners) and the length of the ride (in seconds) for each wave. Also, if we want to point out. Nothing was left to chance. make waves every minute or so, we need to be able to dissipate the energy of the previous wave very “Preliminary computing simulations were quickly and that also has to be taken into account when designing the lagoon. nearly always used, but the majority of Environmental considerations are no doubt equally important to you. How are those factors taken the tests were also run on real-size into consideration when designing any specific piece of equipment? models. The underlying aim was to Many pieces and components are designed taking into account that they will permanently be achieve the simplest, most efficient and underwater and so they can’t expel any damaging substance that can affect water quality or the reliable technology possible.” environment. Six years of intense R & D activity And how do you compensate and allow for any long-term erosion that may result from the actual followed, including the construction of wave action itself? a test facility in Spain and testing on We have taken into account the erosion in our designs, but it is extremely small. three evolving full-scale prototypes. A decade later, during which the duo technology opened to the public. Located innovative surf facilities. Visitors to the combined their technical expertise with in the lee of the Snowdonia mountains, lagoon can ride waves ranging between Wavegarden’s ability to customise the next to the village of Dolgarrog, Surf 0.7m and 2m high at the 300m by 120m size, shape and speed of the waves, the Snowdonia has transformed a derelict lagoon, with an impressive sur3ng first commercial surfing lagoon using its aluminium works into one of the most experience of 16 seconds per wave.

www.ied.org.uk 17 VARYING WAVE PROFILES At the push of a button, the Wavegarden generates perfectly formed barrelling waves that interact with contours on the bed of the lagoon to provide different wave profiles at different points in the lagoon. The waves – 2m, 1.2m and 70cm high – peel for up to 150m and are generated at a rate of one every minute. A precise design of the lagoon contour and bathymetry are vital for the successful functioning of the lagoon. In particular, the lagoon’s bathymetry – the measurement of water depth at “It’s more like the various places in a body of water – is responsible for determining wave ocean, not like a wave formation in the various sur7ng areas. pool” – Miguel Pupo, Three different waves run (Brazil) Pro Surfer. simultaneously in distinct areas of the lagoon. An overhead ‘advanced’ wave, a waist-high ‘intermediate’ wave and the knee-high ‘beginner’ waves. Surfers on along the shoreline (intermediate), and at THE PROFESSIONALS’ VIEW the advanced and intermediate waves the end of the lagoon (beginners). Once work on a rotation basis (three per wave, the wavefoil completes a full run, it No engineering design so each surfer catches every third wave) returns in the opposite direction to project is home and dry – if and the wave runs every 90 seconds. reproduce an identical set of waves. that is the right expression Surfers in the beginner bays will get The hydrodynamic design and robust every other wave. construction of the wavefoil are key in the case of a man-made From the expert central area of the elements of Wavegarden’s patented wave and custom-designed lagoon, two identical waves will break technology. As for the length of the ride, simultaneously left and right, with there’s no limit: build a longer pool and surfing lagoon – until ‘those barrelling point-break type rides of up to you’ll get a longer wave. who know’ have delivered 20 seconds long. Once the waves reach Effectively, all that matters is that the their verdicts. the beginners’ area at each end of the pool is the right shape. There must be a lagoon, the left and right hand waves will certain angle between the swell and the become smaller, more playful, whitewater shore – conditions that just don’t happen waves, allowing all age groups to learn so often in the sea. and improve their skills. DRIVE SYSTEM in use” – a must for any successful WAVEFOIL FACTOR The drive system is responsible for sports/leisure park business, especially The secret to the Wavegarden’s success moving the wavefoil in a back and forward in peak season. “The drive system is lies along the midline of the oval lake, motion at the touch of button. The capable of producing the longest man- hidden beneath the surface. The device, system is a gearless ropeway that uses made waves in the world that hold their known as a ‘wavefoil’, is a large a low-speed synchronous motor, with an form and power over any distance; the hydrodynamic blade that shares output shaft directly linked to the pulley only limit to the length of the wave is the similarities with an aeroplane wing and wheel. Foregoing a complex gear system length of the lagoon.” the plough of a snowcat. has considerable advantages, in terms It moves at a speed of approximately of its operation. CLOSE CONTROL 6 m/sec underwater from one end of the Inspired by ski lift technology, the A control unit is used to operate the drive lagoon to the other and creates a clean design of the drive system is the result system and wavefoil. To make life simple, swell. The energy of the swell interacts of a collaborative effort of a large multi- all operations are fully automated, with with the shallowing sections of the disciplinary engineering team, a large function diagrams displayed on an easy- lagoon’s bed, causing it to build in size 7nancial investment and several years to-use touch screen interface. Sensors and then steepen. of design and testing, according to on the wavefoil and drive system relay As a result, the swell turns into a wave Wavegarden. concise feedback in real time about the and starts to break. This produces A back-up engine integrated into the functioning of the system. Information is surfable waves in various parts of the main design provides a highly reliable transmitted back to the operator in the lagoon: on either side of the pier (expert), system, with “no risk of stopping while form of a message; or, in the case of a

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a large amount of impact shock. As for the that the custom-made lagoon blends into supply of water, this can come from a the natural surroundings. variety of different sources – ocean, river, “The technology ensures each facility lake, main pipes or underground bore. requires limited civil engineering work, The source depends on what’s available with less concrete and much lower at any given site, determining the best energy consumption than conventional option Anancially and environmentally. wave pools. There is relatively no The exact volume of water required is negative visual or auditory impact, with dependent on the lagoon length, width the only noise heard being the sound of and depth. In terms of surAng breaking waves. Water treatment performance, there is no noticeable systems are based on technology that is difference in usability between fresh or safe and effective.” salt water. Several hundred people have tested COMPUTATIONAL FLUID waves at the prototype facility in Spain, DYNAMICS from beginners to world champions, with Conducted internally at Wavegarden, no reported perceivable difference in Computational Fluid Dynamics is used to buoyancy or surfability. On average, the generate accurate graphic simulations of estimated energy requirement for the the height, length, shape and forces of

“Wavegarden is the problem, an alarm with a diagnosis appears on the control unit screen. closest thing to a Positioned in the lagoon, the main pier natural wave” – Joel serves two distinct purposes. First, Parkinson (Australia), thanks to the safety net lining both sides, the pier isolates and protects users in Pro Surfer, 2012 World the lagoon from the moving parts of the Champion. wave-generating system. Secondly, very similar to a standard pier with wooden decking, it provides a first-class viewing area for spectators, cameramen and photographers.

DISSIPATIVE SHORES wave-generating technology is 710 kWh breaking waves throughout the various With a sand-coloured finish, the per hour. This level of energy can create parts of the lagoon. Information and data dissipative shores are grid-like structures between 150-200 waves per hour, collected from CFD simulations provide located around the lagoon periphery that ranging from 0.4m-1.9m high. the basis for the design and creation of reduce currents after a wave passes. the wave-generating elements. Whitewater flows up the gently sloped MACHINERY DESIGN The Arst test of just how well Surf shores and drops into the grill to reduce Based on European safety guidelines and Snowdonia might stand up to intense backwash significantly. Currents that European security directives, the wave- scrutiny came when it hosted the world’s occur during wave production negatively generating machinery is designed, Arst Wavegarden surAng contest. ‘Red affect wave quality; therefore, settling the manufactured and assembled to achieve Bull Unleashed 2015’ brought together lagoon water in the shortest time is the highest possible standards. some of the world’s best surfers where imperative to the frequent creation of All facets are meticulously created to the competitors surfed the same number quality waves. ensure the highest quality, guided by of identical waves in a one-on-one Furthermore, the reduction of turbulence directives such as amusement park elimination format. dramatically improves safety. Strong-flowing installations and swimming pool “If we can build these things all over currents can be quite unsettling for users. complexes. Each machine complies with the world, surAng will become an Fitted with a layer of non-slip comfort the three key engineering directives: international sport and I could see it mesh, the shores instantly diminish wave Machine Safety, Low Voltage and [being part of] the Olympics one day,” energy levels and lessen the impact of Electromagnetic Compatibility, and predicts pro surfer and 2015 world water currents on users in the lagoon in carries the CE mark to indicate they champion Carissa Moore. close proximity to the shoreline, or conform to European standards. Meanwhile, for the surAng fraternity at standing/sitting on the shoreline. The Environment is another primary large, the days of looking out to sea in the structures are pliable in comparison to consideration when embarking on a new vain hope of that next ‘Grinder’ showing up concrete and, in the case of a fall, absorb project, Wavegarden states, by ensuring may well be a thing of the past.

www.ied.org.uk 19 Upskilling the Engineering Workforce Dr Tania Humphries-Smith CEng CTPD MIED and Dr Philip Sewell CEng MIED MIMechE put the case for the introduction of a Professional Registration Mentoring Scheme

hnology cience & Tec Faculty of S g Engineerin of Design & Department n l Registratio Professiona g Scheme ngineeringUK (2013) highlighted engineering graduates and Mentorin Scheme that will benefit the need to double the number provide engineering employers all stakeholders. The of annual graduate recruits into with the opportunities to upskill mentoring component engineering by 2020 to meet the current workforce to of the scheme was Edemand. The report also highlighted that increase the percentage of personalised to meet only 30% of engineers in the UK economy professionally registered the requirements of are registered as Chartered Engineers engineers. It is clear that the the individual – and (CEng) and 6% as Incorporated Engineers engineering employers and the workshop (IEng). The trend for the overall number of employees would benefit by being element to meet the sion your profes Stand out in

ned to assist registered engineers is shown to be in provided with a scheme to s been desig requirement of the m scheme ha r. Ai mentoring red enginee l registration ed or charte professiona n incorporat This r as either a ish to ng to registe who may w those wishi d companies dividuals an rocess. le for both in gistration p decline (EngineeringUK, 2013, ‘The mentor them through the me is suitab ofessional re company; thus The sche taff in the pr ber of their s upport a num State of Engineering’ [online]. London: professional registration s preparing the EngineeringUK). Yet Incorporated and application process. Many individual with key skills for the Chartered Engineers are vital to the growth potential professional engineer registrants workplace and creating sought-after of the UK economy. feel challenged by the application process. individuals who will be duly recognised as “Chartered Engineers develop Bournemouth University (BU) has the future leaders in their fields. appropriate solutions to engineering piloted a scheme to help this process and In common with most HEIs, BU has a problems. They may develop and apply new encourage more professional engineering significant proportion of engineering-based technologies, promote advanced designs registrants with the Engineering Council academic staff holding Chartered Engineer and design methods and introduce new through any of the licensed Professional status (CEng), with many already engaged and more efficient production techniques, Institutions (PIs). The pilot project was a with a range of PIs undertaking or pioneer new engineering services and collaboration between current BU MEng Professional Review interviews for management methods.” Engineering students on an Engineering membership and Engineering Council (http://www.engc.org.uk/ceng.aspx). Council accredited course and engineering registration. It is therefore ideally situated The above figures demonstrate the employers to develop, launch and establish to provide suitable mentors for such a need to increase the number of a Professional Registration Mentoring scheme, although for this pilot a retired, but active, Professionally Qualified Engineer familiar with Professional Registration procedures was recruited to mentor students and help develop the scheme. As a Chartered Engineer, Fellow and Member of Council of the IED, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of engineers in the UK are of engineers in the UK are (IMechE), and Engineering Council liaison registered as Chartered registered as Incorporated officer for the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET), this person had broad Engineers (CEng) Engineers (IEng) experience of working within many

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the professional The scheme would be recommended to development of the colleagues and the company is aware of industry-based students several who have completed their studies concerned and of the and with appropriate experience who would physical process of form- be interested in the scheme, if it were to filling to achieve their run again and not be only for those goal. Feedback was engaged on an academic programme.The secured to determine the need to find the right champion for the scheme’s success, with scheme within the company was stressed. the findings suggesting: The final scheme consists of: • The scheme broadly - Publicity Material met expectations about - Scheme Handbook providing greater - Scheme Structure (duration 6-12 months), information on including on site (for groups only): professional registration • Initial briefing on standards and also with previous • Evidencing of competencies, including experience of mentoring feedback • The importance of • Completion of application forms, mentor visiting on the including feedback work site and in person • Mock interview, including feedback. professional engineering institutes (PEIs) – was stressed, providing a more informal In the near future, a case study will be an ideal candidate for this project. experience and opportunity to show developed once one of the students taking The pilot project commenced with an things in the workplace part in the scheme is in a position to fully assessment of the employers of students • Email, phone or Skype communications complete their professional registration on the MEng Engineering degree and it was were not felt to be effective for mentoring application. Initially, this scheme offered identified that the Missions Systems • The scheme was helpful in setting only regional impact by introducing it to division of Cobham PLC, based in deadlines and providing motivation. companies through their employees Wimborne, Dorset, employed the largest However, the same deadlines did lead studying on the MEng Engineering number of students studying on the degree to pressure points when combined with programme at BU. The scheme has now course. Five students (four at BEng level full-time employment & academic study been integrated into this Hexible learning and one at MEng level) were identified as • The timing of the mentoring scheme engineering degree curriculum through the being employed by Cobham, which was felt could be reconsidered to take place Level 6 unit Advanced Engineering and to be an ideal company to work with, as it over the summer – that is, at the end Level 7 unit MEng Project. Students is the third largest aerospace and defence of the academic study period – and also studying on the degree will be mentored for employer in the UK, with over 12,000 to be extended to allow a full draft up to a year after graduation to provide employees globally and 500 employees at application to be produced and hence a professional development opportunities by the Wimborne site alone. mock interview based on the application, achieving professional registration. During an initial meeting to establish rather than on personal knowledge It is now possible for practising Cobham’s requirements, a proposal for the • The handbook was felt to be useful, engineers who are already academically structure of the Professional Registration in terms of providing initial information qualified to enrol on the scheme for a fee. Mentoring, together with a draft handbook on professional registration and its Once established, the plan is to secure for the scheme, was discussed. Feedback benefits and eligibility. However, it is not recognition for the scheme from an led to the mentoring scheme handbook something that was looked at after the appropriate professional body, such as being updated and requirements of the start of the scheme. the IED or IMechE. workshop element developed. Three mentoring sessions were held over a five-month period at the Wimborne Interested in this scheme or have site to develop the students’ applications any comments? Then contact for professional engineering qualifications. either Dr Tania Humphries-Smith The sessions consisted of: presenting [email protected] or Dr Philip Sewell at appropriate standards to the students; [email protected]. group discussions concerning the levels and skills required, and individual tutoring sessions to prepare and develop their applications for both Incorporated and Chartered Engineer (as appropriate); feedback and discussion provided of both

www.ied.org.uk 21 Intellectual Property: Luke, I am your father…

Iain Colville, senior associate as complex as the Star Wars franchise. If you are sitting comfortably, let us begin at Wright Hassall, considers with product designs, which UK and EU questions of paternity and law protects, in terms of the outward plot twists in the galaxy of shape and appearance of a product. In the first instance, there will be an intellectual property automatic form of protection (such as unregistered design right in the UK) that will initially belong to the designer who first records their design on paper, digitally or in the form of a model or he words ‘No, I am your father’ prototype. If the designer is an employee, (addressed by Darth Vader to the unregistered rights will first belong to Luke Skywalker in ‘The Empire their employer. Strikes Back’) must be a However, if the design was created contenderT for one of the most famous – before 1 October 2014 and a third party and most misquoted – lines in film – this person might be the originator of commissioned (and paid) the designer, history. When those words were first the conceptual idea or the commissioner heard in cinemas around the world in of the act of creation. 1980, many audiences were surprised at Some designers are employees, this twist in the plot. Luke Skywalker’s working for an employer who exercises response was something like ‘Noooooo!’, control over their daily activity. In general so it would appear that he was caught on terms, a designer’s or inventor’s employer the hop, too. Unfortunately, this is also will own the intellectual property rights in the reaction of many whose business or their work, subject, of course, to the livelihood is dependent upon the terms of the employment contract. Other ownership of intellectual property rights, designers, inventors and authors may upon learning that the rights that they work for others as self-employed thought belonged to them, in fact belong contractors and so the position for them to somebody else. will depend upon the contractual agreement between the parties. WHO’S WHO? Other characters may also be brought All good stories begin by introducing the into the mix, as intellectual property rights characters. First, there is the designer can be licensed or transferred to others herself. In some contexts, the terms who may or may not have any relationship ‘inventor’ or ‘author’ might be more to the inventor or designer. It is therefore relevant, but this is the individual who vital to look at the whole picture and creates the design, invention or piece of review any contractual documents that work. The designer may work for surround the design process. themselves, coming up with amazing ideas on their own or perhaps they work PLEASE DESIGN ME A … collaboratively in a team jointly creating In the world of intellectual property, there works that may be shared between them. are different stories, depending upon Sometimes there may be another which intellectual property rights are figure, standing just behind the designer involved. Some involve plot twists almost

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TELL ME A STORY… belongs principally to the party who is Copyright will protect many different using it. Unregistered rights will arise as forms of creative activity (generally goodwill and reputation is generated in regardless of artistic merit), such as relation to a particular brand. Stronger, written text, software code, drawings, more easily enforceable, rights can be photographs, sculptures, works of obtained by registering trade marks. Again, there is a register that states who applied for the trade mark and to whom it now belongs. The key to unravelling the story of who owns which intellectual property rights (and the unregistered design avoiding any right will belong in the surprising plot first instance to the twists) is to ensure commissioner, instead of that, right at the the designer (subject to outset, you consider the terms of any relevant carefully what rights contract). you may be creating (or The next potential twist in need to register) and who you the plot is that the owner of the want them to be owned by. As any unregistered design right may decide to lawyer will tell you, it is always important obtain a more robust form of protection to document all of this clearly – and by registering their design. In the first remember where the document is kept. instance, the registered right must belong to the person entitled to the unregistered rights. One benefit of registered rights is that a public register lists the owners of each registered design and changes of ownership should be recorded in the register.

WHAT A CLEVER IDEA! In the case of innovative technology and inventions – such as the inner workings of a new product or the solution to a technical challenge – the relevant intellectual property right is the patent. Like registered designs, patents are registered rights and so there is a register in which one can look up the owner. In the first instance, a patent application will be made by (and the resulting patent will belong to) the architecture and works of artistic inventor(s) or their employer. craftsmanship, films, broadcasts, This person is known as the applicant theatrical plays, music and songs. The or patentee. The prospective applicant story here is broadly the same as for About the author Iain Colville, senior associate at Wright can pass the right to make the patent unregistered designs – the ‘author’ or Hassall, is an experienced intellectual application to a third party under a creator of the work in question will be property & technology lawyer, specialising contract. A patentee can sell his patent, the first owner of the copyright, unless in disputes over the ownership or misuse so it may pass into other hands, or they they are an employee or agree by of intellectual property rights. He has may choose to grant rights, or a licence, contract that the rights belong to advised on product designs; branding and to third parties to exploit the patent. In someone else. trade marks; copyright in software, training addition, the individual(s) who came up materials, photographs and music; IT’S GOT MY NAME ON IT! with the invention has (or have) the inventions and patents; as well as right to be named in the patent as Separately from any copyright in the con dential information and trade secrets. inventor(s). graphical aspect of a logo, branding

www.ied.org.uk 23 GYM NEWS Graduate and Young Members Group

Nick Rowan: championing year, establishing this group, I am looking to grow our membership and create a far more active network. the cause of GYM members To this end, it is great to be able to share details on these pages of GYM member Jenny Watling’s Bark! project, from De Montfort University. Casting an eye ahead, I will be looking to present recent graduates’ work in each subsequent issue of Engineering Designer, essentially to help young designers in their quest to gain recognition for their work and also secure valuable exposure right at the start of their careers. So, if you would like to see your work featured in the future editions of the magazine, then please feel free to contact me through the IED, as I would really like to hear from you. Please also keep a lookout on these pages, as we are hoping to build on the excellent industrial visits of last year, with some exciting new opportunities. For all of our members wishing to get more involved, New GYM chairman Nick Rowan First, I would like to wish you all a happy we have a Basecamp discussion group set wants to see more young and prosperous New Year. up that I would like to invite you to join. designers gain recognition and My name is Nick Rowan and I am the This will help you inform how our group get valuable exposure right at new chairman of the Graduate and Young grows and what we get involved in. the start of their careers Members (GYM) group. Following on from I look forward to bringing you more the excellent work that Raymond did last exciting GYM news in the near future.

AWARD-WINNING BARK! a bored or under-trained dog; a situation that is completely preventable. PET PROJECT This was one of the key issues I wanted to address with the product I designed and Jenny Watling MDes considers how product design can help developed, but also there is an alarming owners to be more connected to the needs of their dogs, thus amount of overweight and obese dogs in the UK (nearly half). This has the same ensuring their pets enjoy a far richer life effect on dogs as it does humans, increasing preventable diseases, I’ve always really liked animals and, their pets and how these needs can be shortening lifespan, causing joint issues having had pets throughout my life, I was best addressed, with the overall aim of and generally decreasing quality of life. interested in the design of the products giving dogs a far richer life as a dog. Bark! is a connected system focusing that are tailored for them. It was also really I have a sister who works in an RSPCA on four key needs of dogs: social, interesting to see the variation of products rescue centre, and it’s so common for her environmental, physical and mental. It actually available for pets – and dogs to see dogs that are ‘difficult’ and have to breaks down the needs into actions. For specifically. be given up by the owner. However, but this example, physical would be going for The main thing that I noted from seeing ‘difficult’ behaviour is very often due to a walk and these actions are read by Jenny Watling: all the other products was that not too a monitor fitted to the dog, much like the interested in the many of them were really focused on the way Fitbit and Jawbone products do for design of products dog’s needs. Not that they weren’t good for people. However, unlike those types of available for pets. the dogs, but it seemed the focus was to products, Bark! logs social activities with make dogs more human, rather than giving humans and other dogs, and mental them the outlets they need as dogs – activities, such as training and puzzle toys, something we can all too easily overlook. when they go somewhere new. That led me to thinking about how owners This is all then feedback to the owner can be more connected to the needs of via a dedicated app or the Bark! hub,

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT Meeting the DEMAND

DEMAND is a charity dedicated to helping people with disabilities that require bespoke equipment to help them with their everyday lives

DEMAND is a charity that is dedicated to cognitive challenges for the entirety of their transforming the lives of people with careers,” says DEMAND. disabilities, helping them to overcome Students beneDt from learning to consider challenges in their lives with custom-made design for disability in everything they do, or modiDed equipment. Those with special which helps inEuence the thinking in their requirements often Dnd there is no suitable future design environments. As one of its ‘off- the- shelf’ solution. From two engineering students said on leaving: “It’s been a life- workshops, DEMAND’s team of 20 staff changing experience.” The hands-on modify, refurbish, design and manufacture opportunities to interact with end users and equipment, tailored to an individual’s needs, undertake design projects from conception that makes daily life easier or enables them to and prototyping to Dnal production are unique enjoy sport and leisure activities. within the disability sector. Each year, DEMAND takes on university “My placement at DEMAND opened my students for 48-week placements as junior eyes to the world of design for disability,” says designers. Every student becomes skilled in Daniel Tyas, BSc Product Design Engineering, its custom design process and often leads Nottingham Trent University. entire projects to completion towards the “I gained a real appreciation of designing for end of their time. manufacture, working in tandem with “We hope that letting people experience craftsmen and practicing the skills myself. the way we work, and seeing at Drst hand the “The satisfaction from witnessing a client impact that our work can make, will inspire achieve something new for the Drst time, with young designers to continue to create the help of something I’d designed, really products empathetically; taking full sticks with me.’ consideration of people with mobility and More information: www.demand.org.uk.

showing what areas the dog is satisDed in advice on future actions. I studied MDes I am, however, very enthusiastic about and what ones may need more work. The Design Products at De Montfort University this project and, in my spare time, I’m system also includes a range of Bluetooth- for four years and graduated in July 2015 developing the existing range, with hopes enabled toys focused on meeting these with a Drst class degree. After exhibiting in the future to build a business around different needs, which can be logged by work at New Designers and generating this core concept. the monitor. Overall, the system aims to some interest around the product there, Recently, this project has been give the owners the tools they need to I was offered a job at a retail design exhibited in Beijing, as part of the British ensure their dog has the best quality life company where I am now learning more Council Great Creator Graduate show, for they can, through giving feedback and about design in the real world. winning awards within the university.

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A team of engineering students from the University of Liverpool has broken the human-powered British land speed record three times. Now they are after the world record

he University of Liverpool There was early disappointment when HIGHS AND LOWS Velocipede (ULV) team does not all the male riders successfully qualiLed, It was a rollercoaster week, with highs and do things by halves. They but female rider Natasha Morrison was lows for the team, reports ULV deputy designed and built their unable to hit the speeds required to make team leader Patrick Harper. “Damage recumbentT bicycle ARION1 from scratch it through to the main event. Then, sadly, sustained to the exterior shell and with one goal: to capture the world record. mixed weather conditions forced the steering after a high-speed impact meant The students transported the bicycle to abandonment of runs early in the week. working through the night on Thursday and Battle Mountain, Nevada, and raced it in However, with the sun back out, the ULV Friday to make it possible for our riders to the International Human Powered Vehicle team clocked up a 69.7mph run by rider attempt breaking records again. Association’s World Human Powered Ken Buckley to capture that British land “On the Lnal evening, the bicycle was Speed Challenge 2015. Aiming for that speed record. But there was more to in great condition, the riders were pumped world record of 83.13mph, set at the come. On the Lnal day, fellow rider David and the weather provided perfect racing same venue by a Dutch team in 2013, the Collins, a PhD student at the university, hit conditions. David and Ken were able to team fell just short, but did surpass – back with 70.6mph, only for that speed to hit incredible speeds – the team were indeed smash – the British record of be topped by Ken pushing to a new British ecstatic," recalls Patrick. 67.4mph set by Rob English at Battle human-powered land speed record of So, how did they put together the Mountain in 2002. 75.03mph. machine that took them to a new British

26 www.ied.org.uk RECUMBENT BICYCLE

backup. On the front wheel, we use a Michelin solar car tyre. These tyres are well known for their incredibly low rolling resistance. However, they are quite wide. For this reason, on the rear we use Schwalbe Ultremo ZX, which has a much smaller proAle and would disrupt the airflow at the back less.”

MASSIVE GEAR RATIOS In order to get the bike up to speed, some massive gear ratios are required. “The main chainring has 104 teeth and is made by Royce,” states Rob. “We use two separate chains on the bike. The chain from the chainring goes down to a layshaft, mounted ahead of the pedals, which has a gear ratio of about 2:1. A chain then goes from the layshaft all the way back to the driven rear wheel.” The shell was designed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and also taken to the wind tunnel at MIRA. “This allowed us to check our computer models against real data,” he says.

Triumphant engineering students from the University of Liverpool. record? Rob McKenzie, new team leader from CFP, including the seat and front But what about the riders themselves – of the ULV Team, explains: “Our bike, the frame structure. who was up to this enormous challenge? ARION1 [it weighs about 45kg and is “If you look at your bike, you might “We found our riders following a 2.7m long], has a carbon Abre monocoque notice that something is missing – it has nationwide search. We eventually found structure that was designed to give the no windscreen. Instead, we opted to the most powerful engines for the bike. most stiffness possible. This allowed the mount a camera at the top of the bike, The riders then went through the tough effort from the rider to be effectively which is connected to a pair of screens in process of learning to ride a recumbent transferred to the road and not into flexing front of the rider’s face. Two systems run bike – which takes some serious skill. of the frame. Much of the bike is made in parallel, with one operating as a Finally, they were ready to learn to ride the

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ARION1.” One of the most difLcult design challenges was to Lt the bike as closely as possible to the rider, Rob reveals. “Aerodynamic drag is related to the frontal area; therefore we wanted to make the bike as small as possible. “We made a mock-up of the bike, using a test rig built of aluminium proLle. Using this fully adjustable rig, we took 3D scans of our riders. This then gave us a CAD model around which we could design components of the bike. “To check the shape of the shell against the rider, we had some polystyrene blocks cut to the shape of the shell and built these around the test rig. Luckily, the riders Lt it like a glove!” As there was more than one rider for the bike, the shell had to be designed and in the University of Liverpool’s School of team has begun developing its second made to Lt the biggest. Engineering. “To break the British record bike, the ARION2, based on lessons What of the venue where the challenge three times in our Lrst attempt at this learned from the ARION1. “We believe we was staged? “The World Human Powered challenge is an outstanding achievement have an excellent chance of getting the Speed Challenge takes place on an for the whole ULV team,” he says. world record next year,” states Rob ordinary road that is closed for 20 “The students have worked hard, with McKenzie. He adds: “We would like to minutes every morning and evening,” he enthusiasm, through what were difLcult thank Rathbones, our sponsor. Without its adds. “The riders accelerate over a Lve- circumstances. The School of Engineering support, this wonderful project would not mile course, before reaching a 200m Mat and the University of Liverpool are proud have been possible.” section where speeds are measured and of what they’ve been able to accomplish.” Rathbones’ chief operating ofLcer recorded.” One of the treasured moments Although the ULV team did not manage Andrew Butcher describes ARION1 as “a must surely have been when David and to trouble the 2013 world record on this triumph of British education, industry and Ken received commemorative speeding occasion, it was topped by a Canadian sport. As investment managers, we seek tickets from the Nevada sheriff for team competing at the event when Todd to invest in future technology and it is a breaking the road’s 70mph speed limit. Reichert and his AeroVelo team achieved privilege for us to help make possible the a speed of 86.65mph. team’s success in smashing the British OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT This will be the target for the ULV team record”. Accompanying the team all the way to when they compete at next year’s event. For more pictures and background on Nevada was Dr Tim Short, senior lecturer In fact, since returning from Nevada, the the contest, visit: http://ulvteam.co.uk.

Top of page: front end lay-up. Above and right: shell lay-up.

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New Chartership for Product NEWS BITES Honorary degree Designers is a roaring success! for our president

CTPD is a unique Chartership now within the reach Engineers, Chartered Scientists or Chartered of IED members and it’s already proving to be a Environmentalists. winner. We would like to see even more members Pictured here are some of the first IED CTPD adding Chartered status to their credentials. registrants: Dr Ben Watson from 3M; Dr Caroline As you will probably be aware, the IED has been Simcock from Dyson; and Ian Callum, director of Congratulations to IED granted licence to award Chartered status to design at Jaguar. Ian Callum commented: president Maggie Philbin on product designers by decree of the Privy Council; “The introduction of CTPD is a vital development recently being presented the Chartership is a competence–based for professionalism in the design community. The with an Honorary Degree of registration, focusing on the abilities and skills Chartership recognises and values the hard work, Doctor of Science from the of the designer. expertise and commitment to excellence University of Bath. Developed specially for designers working in demonstrated by product designers. It was an product design, CTPD has the specific aim of honour to become one of the first recipients.” Notice to providing professional recognition, support To find out more, go to the IED website: members and registration to designers, on a par with http://www.institutionengineering-designers. Don’t forget that this their colleagues who register as Chartered org.uk/membership/ becomingamember. January is the month when the IED changes all members’ subscription payments to renew annually. Each member will have been sent an email and a letter to explain how the change will affect them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact HQ on 01373 822801. Career advancement CPD is ever more important to a professional designer’s career. All IED members are invited to sign up to our CPD management tool ‘My Career Path’. Log on to the IED website and follow the link in the ‘Bene1ts’ section to the online facility, which can Among the first CTPD registrants were, above from left: Dr Ben Watson from 3M; Dr Caroline Simcock from Dyson; help you manage your and Ian Callum, director of design at Jaguar. Professional Development. Elections & Registrations

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