9 A Message from Professor Brian Cox CBE

Presentation 4:

Dr. Katrina Thompsom Head of Research, Artemis Technologies. TED Talk title: The science behind flying boats and foiling ferries.

Katrina is an experienced aircraft stress engineer with more than 15 years experience in commercial and military aerospace across multiple aircraft programmes, is highly skilled in finite element analysis for stress, and loads analysis.

As an experienced user of Patran, HyperMesh and Nastran for static, dynamic and aeroelastic analysis Dr. Katrina Thomsom is adept in numerical methods with a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics and an MSc in Finite Element Methods. William Browne Applied Technologies Engineer, Artemis Technologies. TED Talk Title: The Science behind flying boats and foiling ferrries.

After purchasing a cheap welder off eBay, during his GCSE’s, William starting building go-karts and various other contraptions in his shed. After finding out what engineering was, and how it didn’t ‘close any doors’, this was a natural choice of study.

William studied Engineering at Oxford, graduating this summer, and has recently started working at Artemis Technologies in Belfast; with a keen interest in sailing and being from Northern Ireland, this was the perfect fit. William is an Applied Technologies Engineer and he will talk about his experiences as a recent graduate.

Fun Fact:

All our guest speakers have been given 18 minute slots for their presentations. Why 18 minutes? It’s long enough to be serious and short enough to hold people’s attention. It’s a format adopted by the online TED Lectures and helps ensure that speakers convey their key points in an informative and interesting way.

Practical Workshop

Life in Your Hands: The Art and Science of Simulation in Healthcare

Professor Gerry Gormley, Queens University Belfast

Join us in this workshop to explore the art and science of how simulation trains our healthcare practitioners of the future. Synergising the science of learning and the flair of the dramatic arts, we create unique learning opportunities in simulation that appear real to students but where no patient is ever at risk.

In this interactive session, we will take you into a simulated healthcare world that helps to develop the important clinical skills for our future dentists, doctors, midwifes, nurses, pharmacists and many other healthcare professions. Where seconds count - actions matter - we will place the audience in the shoes of being a healthcare professional, dealing with a crisis and learning how to develop the skills to provide the very best of care for patients.

Test your Laboratory Skills

Dr Mary Jo Kurth and Ramila Patel, Randox

Randox invites you to come along to our workshop where we will introduce you to the latest innovative technology in healthcare diagnostics. Randox employ over 400 research scientists and engineers allowing Randox to remain at the cutting edge of science and technology. During COVID Randox processed over 27 million tests making Randox the largest testing centre in Europe. Come along and learn how we moved from manual processing to automated robotic processing in our hands on session. Test your lab skills against your friends’ and the robot. There will also be an opportunity to see a laser in action as it personalises a free pen for you and learn more about careers at Randox.

The Terumo Brownie Factory

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies Team

Students will be introduced to Industrial Engineering through a hands-on Lean Manufacturing simulation and meet a variety of Terumo associates from their Larne and Denver teams including representatives from engineering, research and development, quality, commercial, human resources, production and legal. Concepts the students will learn about include: batch processing versus single piece flow, improving throughput due to improved quality, and reducing non-value-added tasks. The students will have to work together to improve a chaotic manual assembly process into an efficient manufacturing line using industrial engineering.

Science in the Cinema

Barry Brendan, Nerve Centre

This workshop will explore the world of Visual Special Effects in the Cinema through a case study of a Science Fiction short film - Human Error - that the Nerve Centre made in summer 2021. The workshop will take pupils behind the scenes of the making of this short film and reveal the creative approaches to designing and building the interior of a spacecraft, making a robot character, creating a lunar landscape and fabricating a model of the spacecraft. The workshop will end with a presentation of the current opportunities available to begin a pathway into the screen industries through studying Moving Image Arts or applying for a place on Screenworks or one of the Screen Academies in Film or Visual Special Effects.

LEGO EV3 Robot Navigation

Siobhán Flynn, Ulster University

During this workshop pupils will learn how to navigate a robot around a football field and try score a goal by coding the robot to move forwards, backwards, left and right. Session will encourage creatively and teamwork skills, allowing participants to interact, think and brainstorm on how to solve the problem by helping to enhance their creativity.

The Brush Monster Challenge

Professor Margaret Morgan, Ulster University

During this workshop pupils are given the opportunity to build a ‘Brush Caterpillar’ using everyday items such as: a dustpan brush, a motor, crocodile leads, batteries and an eraser. The pupils will be asked to assemble the parts using these items to make the ‘Brush Caterpillar’ move as the motor shaft turns. They will learn about circuits and how the motor turns using batteries and wires.

Pupils can modify the brush, depending on the distance from the centre line the eraser is mounted. They will also explore what happens if they swap the crocodile clips and test it on different surfaces.

Molecule to Market: Let’s Advance Health Together!

Dr Frances Weldon & Amber Breen, Almac Group

Almac Group is a global leader in advancing human health providing a range of expert services across the drug development lifecycle to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, supporting them in finding treatments for patients.

From extraction of DNA to performing quality checks on equipment and finished product, this workshop will provide pupils with lots of opportunities to explore and develop their teamworking, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

The Future of Flight

Gillian Gregg, Bronagh Ward & Patrick Groves, The Royal Academy of Engineering in Partnership with NIACE and NCC

Explore how engineers in Northern Ireland are making a difference in the world today.

A series of interactive activities exploring different roles engineers play in aeronautics. We are planning to run 3-4 different ‘challenges’ / fun activities including the Tempest flight resource kit developed by RAE with the RAF; an advanced composites materials challenge and fun activity with UU’s demo wind tunnel. We also have a balloon kit challenge with AR/VR interactive activities, which we will coordinate with NCC.

Shocking Sugar & Egg-citing Eggs

Dr. Anna Monaghan & Ms Melissa Nugent, STEM NI David Gilmore, Galgorm Resort & Spa

This egg-citing workshop will showcase the versatility of eggs which have a wide variety of uses and can create a vast array of food items. From cake to custard, fried eggs to omelettes, meringue to marshmallow, the methods of cooking can change the overall result. Through fun, competitive hands-on challenges this workshop will make sure you never look at eggs in the same way again.

Using sugar cubes and wellknown brands, the second part of this workshop will require the students to guess how many sugar cubes are in one serving of everyday food items. There will also be an interactive discussion and presentation about sugar and healthy food swaps as part of this activity

Portable Planetarium: Making Sense of Space

Rok Nezic, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

During this session students will go on a live interactive tour of the Solar System and beyond within our portable planetarium. Students will get the chance to choose where they journey to in Space and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask our experts questions.

Fuelling the Future with Hydrogen

Iain Hoy & Ryan Love, Pheonix Natural Gas

In a world that now recognises the irreversible impacts of climate change and the need to decarbonise our global economies, innovation will play a pivotal role in the delivery of alternative energy solutions. As a region NI is well placed to utilise its existing, modern gas infrastructure to distribute renewable gases such as Hydrogen. This session will help attendees understand more about the NI energy landscape, the scale of the opportunity, the indigenous resources that will drive change and allow NI to become a leader in this space. As well as hearing from those playing a pivotal role in the early stages of a Hydrogen economy locally, students will get an opportunity to get see at first hand some of the technologies that are enabling change.

Grow Your Own Clothes

Helen Keys, Mallon Linen

How can plants be used to make clothes, surfboards, furniture, insulation and even musical instruments? We look at how plants can be processed in different ways to make textiles and composite materials. Helen Keys is a farmer from County Tyrone who grows flax for processing into textile and composite. UK committee of the Nature Friendly Farming Network. Founder of the Growing Innovation.

Robotics and Automation in Manufacturing

Paul Davidson, Ryobi

In this workshop pupils will experience how robotics and automation are used in a modern manufacturing company. Pupils will interact with an industrial robot and automated inspection equipment to replicate real world uses. This session will use practical exercises to allow participants to understand how to solve engineering problems through the application of technology.

The Application of 3D Printing in Medicine

Professor Dimitros Lamprou, Queens University Belfast

3D printing offers several advantages including the ability to customize and personalize medical products and avoid supply chain issues. Join us in this workshop to explore how 3D printers are being used to revolutionise the manufacturing of medicines and medical implants.

This workshop will be interactive. Professor Lamprou and his team, will provide an interactive 15 min presentation about 3D printing and manufacturing of medicines, followed by an interactive quiz of 5-10 min, and for the remaining 25 min, participants will be able to play with the printers - making 3D printed tablets

Fast Fashion

Siobhan Purnell, Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful

Join the Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful – Fashion Forever team and find out how what you wear is having a big, negative affect on our environment and things you can do to help.

In this hands-on workshop you will also have the opportunity to reimagine some old material into a useful new product.