{"id":2740,"date":"2020-11-24T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:36:24","slug":"engineering-and-digital-design-taster-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/11\/24\/engineering-and-digital-design-taster-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering and Digital Design Taster Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at our Virtual Engineering and Digital Design Taster Day at the University of Kent on Thursday 10 December 2020, from 4pm to 6pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>At this virtual two-hour event, we will present the latest teaching and research from experts and students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a> who look forward to sharing their exciting subjects and experiences at Kent with you. Additionally, there\u2019s an opportunity for you to ask us questions, about University life, our friendly School, our courses, how we equip our students for industrial placements and employment, and our fantastic facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Guest, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, said, \u201cThe Taster Day is an ideal opportunity for anyone considering studying a design or engineering related subject at university to help them make an informed choice about their options. The event will give you the chance to spend time with our undergraduate students and our friendly lecturers, and find out more about life on our beautiful Canterbury campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taster Day in Engineering and Digital Design would be particularly helpful for those who are considering the University of Kent as one of their UCAS choices and will provide you with a taste of the skills and technologies you\u2019ll learn with us. You\u2019ll be able to find out everything you need to know about studying Engineering and Digital Design from the comfort of your own home.<\/p>\n<p>The programme for the taster day is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00 \u2013 16.10 Welcome to the School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/669\/guest-richard\">Professor Richard Guest<\/a>, Head of School, Professor of Biometric Systems Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.10 &#8211; 16.30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/3738\/mechanical-engineering-beng\">Mechanical Engineering<\/a> Taster Lecture: \u2018Novel Manufacturing Methods\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/2868\/sakhaei-amir-hosein\">Dr Amir Hosein Sakhaei<\/a>, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.30 &#8211; 16.50 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/4410\/digital-design\">Digital Design<\/a> Interactive Session<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/668\/green-mike\">Dr Mike Green<\/a>, Lecturer in Digital Media<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/1587\/epsley-blaine\">Mr Blaine Epsley<\/a>, Lecturer in Digital Arts and Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.50 &#8211; 17.10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/4421\/electronic-and-computer-engineering-beng\">Electronic and Computer Engineering<\/a> Taster Lecture<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/826\/horne-robert\">Dr Robert Horne<\/a>, Lecturer in Electronic Systems<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.10 &#8211; 17.30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/2497\">Biomedical Engineering<\/a> Taster Lecture:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018What we teach for biomedical engineering professionals\u2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/728\/marcelli-gianluca\">Dr Luca Marcelli<\/a>, Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.30 &#8211; 17.50 Student projects demonstration<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/673\/hossain-md-moinul\">Dr Md Moinul Hossain<\/a>, Lecturer in Electronic Engineering and students<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.50 &#8211; 18.00 Q&amp;A with the Panel of Presenters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can sing up for the event at the link below &#8211; select &#8216;Undergraduate&#8217; and then &#8216;Engineering and Digital Design Taster (Online)&#8217;:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/evision.kent.ac.uk\/urd\/sits.urd\/run\/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_enq&amp;code1=EV_ENBK01&amp;code2=&amp;\">https:\/\/evision.kent.ac.uk\/urd\/sits.urd\/run\/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_enq&amp;code1=EV_ENBK01&amp;code2=&amp;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at our Virtual Engineering and Digital Design Taster Day at the University of Kent on Thursday 10 December 2020, from 4pm to 6pm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/11\/24\/engineering-and-digital-design-taster-day\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}