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Design Engineering Students Go Live |
RGE Engineering have joined forces with second year Design Engineering students for a Live Project. RGE are the largest supplier of plastic furniture in the UK, and are a worldwide manufacturer of plastic injection moulded components and injection moulded tooling.
The live project will see the students design elements of a task chair adjustable arm. The student with the best design will get the opportunity to spend two fully paid weeks at RGE?s Godmanchester site, where they will experience the whole design process right through to manufacture. The student?s design will then be available for sale along with RGE's existing product range.
RGE's Managing Director is Ian Hill, who graduated from BU in 1998 in Product Design Visualization. As part of the live project Ian will revisit BU on 28th November to meet the students and see how the project is progressing.
Senior Lecturer in Design Engineering, Dr Isaac Flitta , "Live Projects provide real constraints, strict timelines and real brief. Using live projects in the Design Engineering course provides many advantages for the students and to the university as a whole. Students must learn to acquire additional skills and expertise while finding the solution to a real problem. Further, the significance of students seeing their final design used cannot be underestimated. In the same way, the benefits of having the results of their work critiqued by a real customer cannot be underestimated."