Winners of聽the regional聽Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE) Design Challenge - Faculty of Science &聽Technology students,聽Joseph Keech, William Long and Matthew Lane - came second聽in the national IMechE聽Design Challenge final.
Following their success at the聽Wessex regional final in March, the team were selected to complete in the final again five other univeristies. Their brief was to build a line launcher, a device for firing a projectile an accurate distance.
Dr聽Philip Sewell, Head of Design and Engineering at BU,聽said聽"I am delighted to announce that the team finished second overall which is an excellent result, considering this was the first year we have entered the competition."聽
First year students studying聽Mechanical Engineering and Design Engineering will have the opportunity to enter the competition this year as part of their Engineering Design or Design Engineering Projects聽unit.
