Livuni Engineering Outreach 4 All

18/05/2021

Today, the University of Liverpool in partnership with Shaping Futures is starting a new outreach project called Merseyside Young Engineers! The activities will be online this year with plans to offer hands-on activities when all the current restrictions are lifted.

Today we have the first of our TinkerCAD sessions. Our Y10s will spend a number of sessions designing their own extrusion die which we'll refine over the coming weeks. When all is finished we will be 3D printing their designs and culminating in a live "show and tell" at the end. Good luck Y10s!!!

18/05/2021

Today some of our final year students who are creating Outreach Activities for their final year projects actually got to come into the University, some for the first time this academic year! We want to wish them all the best in their final exams!!!

11/07/2018

We had a really great day The Big Bang North West yesterday, where visitors to our stand took part in the construction of a 1:200 scale replica of the Mersey Gateway bridge. During the morning session, students cast sections of the bridge deck (roadway) in plaster of Paris. Then in the afternoon, they built the bridge out from the pylons (towers) by suspending the deck sections using one very long cable.

Diane had a smashing time - literally. Fortunately the accident occurred after the event had closed.

Thanks very much to our students Isaac, Isaac and Ross for their help in making this such a great success!

09/04/2018

Great fun at the Y12 Scholars' Day on Friday. Students were challenged to build a delivery system using a 3D pen to launch and guide a large ball bearing into a 2m long 25mm diameter tube. This sloped down to the carpeted floor, and they had to predict where the bearing would come to rest. This was the pick of the bunch. Well done to all who took part.

13/03/2018

Very much looking forward to working with Calderstones School - A Specialist Science College on our Shaping Futures Building Bridges project.

28/02/2018

Some photos from our visit to St John Plessington in Bebington yesterday, where the Shaping Futures Building Bridges crew succeeded in installing the first cable. We were joined by Birgir and Gordon from Ramboll UK, who talked to the students about life as engineers and who also brought with them a sample strand of cable from the bridge. Keep going guys; it'll be fantastic when the bridge is complete.

21/02/2018

Constructing the pylons – especially the tall south pylon - is likely to be the most challenging part of the project, so we decided to have a go ourselves.

The pylon is constructed in increments using a technique called slip forming. The formwork is secured around the current top of the structure, plaster mixed, poured and allowed to set. Then the formwork is loosened and raised up the newly cast section so that the process can be repeated.

Here’s a short photo story of our efforts.

18/12/2017

We're busy preparing femur for our hip replacement outreach activities in January using our .robox 3D printers. Despite an overhang in excess of 90°, we're just about managing to print them without support structures, which speeds the process up.

08/11/2017

Some photos from an excellent morning at Ramboll UK in Chester, where we were introducing our "Shaping Futures - Building Bridges" project. We successfully tried out pylon and deck section casting in plaster of Paris and then had a go at installing the cable.

Also present were Sarah Corran and colleagues from Bridges & Structures at Cheshire West and Chester Council

We really look forward to working with you guys over the coming months on this project and thanks go to Fay Newham in particular for her encouragement and support.

07/11/2017

Liverpool Engineering students and staff - come along and find out how you can get involved in outreach, today 12-2 in the Walker Crush Hall.

14/10/2017

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-41586131

The Mersey Gateway Bridge is part of the largest infrastructure project in England outside London.