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The Changing Shapes of Engineering
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Hal has been awarded the 2014 Geoset HighSchool Award for this excellent presentation about how non-circular shapes can have a very useful set of rotational properties. More details | Watch now
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3D Printing
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Measuring the strain
Looking at stress patterns in components using polarised light, part of the 'Engineered by US' exhibition
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Stronger Materials
Brigham Young University student Dustin Gerrard explains his research in materials science during Summer 2010 at Harvard University in the laboratory of David Weitz under the direction of Sujit Datta.
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Recycled streets
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Why a Chair?
Bill asks the question 'Why a chair?' ... the answer reveals the human aspects of engineering design.
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Aluminium drinks can tab
Bill uses slow motion video to show the ingenious engineering design of the apparently simple tab of a pop can.
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The Whiffletree
Bill describes how a whiffletree was used in early calculating devices to do mechanical digital to analog conversion. He shows briefly the device used in an IBM Selectric Typewriter.
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