b'Partner News Summer 2020 13AcademicNetworking at London South Bank University: An opportunity of collaboration for IET Corporate PartnersOrganised by the IET, London South Bank University (LSBU) recently played host to an engineering employability event, giving future engineers a chance to gain insight into the companies and sectors they could work in.Representatives from industry and academiaAn excellent example of collaborationInformatics. It was also helpful for former came together for a day of talks andbetween IET partnership groups, the eventstudents to see how an engineering degree networking to inform the future generationshows how industry and academia can bothcan spark a career in a variety of different of engineers what they need to succeed inbenefit from coming together and sharingareas. the workplace.knowledge. Our students need real world work experience while they study, and theseMohamed Murshed, an Electrical Design Rizwan Aboo, Business Developmentevents help to connect them with fantasticEngineer for AECOM, previously studied a Consultant for LSBU, said: We put on theseemployers who can potentially providebuilding services degree at LSBU and was days because we know the benefits ofthose opportunities. Were looking to makeinvited back to talk with students about students meeting employers. Not just fornext years event bigger and better. how they can benefit. He said: It was the students who get to network, learn andinteresting to see the different avenues an prepare themselves for the world of work,Along with the opportunity to developengineering related degree can take you but also for employers who get to give backinterpersonal skills through networking,and how varied the fields are while also their skills, knowledge and experience tostudents benefitted from a wide rangehow common skills are found across the the future generation of engineers. of talks covering different areas. Almostengineering sector.40 employers attended, giving 13 sector IET Corporate Partners like Arup, Hurleyspecific talks covering four academic Palmer Flatt and AECOM were present todisciplines: Electrical and Electronic, share what theyre looking for in a graduateMechanical and Design, Chemical and engineer. Energy, and Computer Science and WUSATThe University of Warwick Space Engineering TeamArticle by Dr Bill Crofts & Prof Julia Hunter-Anderson, WUSAT Co-Directors.Engineering degree programmes at theFrom 2012, we capitalised on our experienceWUSAT-3 is a 3-unit CubeSat designed for University of Warwick offer a specialby concentrating on our own CubeSat,launch to the International Space Station opportunity for students to spend aWUSAT-1; a prototype launched on afrom where it will be deployed into a Low significant proportion of their time workinghigh-altitude helium balloon. It reached anEarth Orbit. It will carry a signal direction-as a real world engineering team withaltitude of 33km and landed within 100m offinding payload that will be capable of real goals to achieve. In Year 4 of theirits predicted land site! detecting wildlife tags without using GPS. MEng programme, all students are placed in a multi-disciplinary engineering teamExhilarated by our success, we progressedThis could lead to the development of comprising a profile of student engineersto WUSAT-2, another 1U CubeSat launchedlighter, smaller tags, allowing the tagging selected to suit the project in hand. from the Swedish Space Centre via an ESAof smaller animals not currently able to Rexus launch programme. be monitored in this way. Therefore, it will Set-up in 2006, the first WUSAT team wereassist conservation measures and the effort immediately working as the Electrical PowerA two-year mission (201315), it providedto protect biodiversity.Supply team for a European Space Agencyexcellent experience for two of our WUSAT moon orbiting satellite (ESMO). Involvingteams. WUSAT-2 successfully deployed 21 European sub-system partners, it ranand returned its signals to our custom-until 2012 and proved to be a phenomenalbuilt ground-station; the first successful experience for the six WUSAT teamstransmission for an ejected module in 17 involved. Rexus launches.'