Year 12 students, Brian Hornsby, Amir Nayebkosh, Kai Tattingham and Joseph Webster have recently completed a six month enrichment project taking part in the Engineering Education Scheme (EES). This prestigious educational programme allows teams of selected students from schools across the region (Beds, Bucks, Herts & Cambs) the opportunity to work with a local engineering company on a project based working partnership. The four students worked alongside two professional engineers from Niftylift, Sam Thornton and Thomas Cousins (previously a Denbigh Engineering student, now working as a Design Engineer at Niftylift) on a real life engineering project set by the company. The boys were given the brief to design and develop a prototype test rig to evaluate the strain gauges on the machines manufactured at Niftylift. The purpose of the strain gauge is to monitor loads that the machine carries on the platform as a safety feature. This was a challenging brief which required the students to develop strong skills in team work, structured research & design and manufacture. They applied their skills and created solutions suitable for industrial application......Read The full article here
