Residential | Year 12 Students
Headstart at Imperial College will provide you with an experience to explore the different engineering disciplines taught by the Faculty of Engineering. You will participate in lectures, demonstrations and laboratory activities in 8 of the Faculty’s 9 departments.
This broad based course will give you an overview of the various engineering disciplines through a mixture of university-style lectures and practical activities. All sessions are led by specialists and will give you a flavour of university life. You will meet young graduate engineers and can question them about their study choices and their careers. In the evenings you will take part in social and team-building activities.
The applications opened on the 1st of September 2013 and early applications are welcome. The successful applicants will receive confirmation on the 14th of February 2014.
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Activities
- Learning how aerofoils work. Designing a plane and testing it in the Honda wind tunnel
- Learning about biomechanics, and finding out how physics, electronics and mechanics can be applied to solve healthcare problems
- Building a volcano and recording earthquakes on a seismometer
- Working as a team to design, build and testing of a model bridge
- Designing, writing a market specification and constructing of an electronic toy
- Hands-on experience in the hydraulics, vibrations, CAD and strength of materials laboratories
- Discovering Central London student life
Applications
This course will suit you if you are interested in any of the following subjects:
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Bio-engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Earth Sciences Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Material Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Student background
Imperial is a prestigious and internationally renowned research led university with high academic entry requirements and the Headstart course reflects this. Imperial College has one of the largest engineering faculties in Europe. An engineering education at Imperial involves a rigorous grounding in the fundamentals using mathematics as a tool to support understanding and develop new concepts. We believe that comfort with the basic principles is what ultimately drives innovation, the lifeblood of engineering. At Imperial days are long, with a typical pattern in the morning and labs in the afternoon. The Headstart course programme is very full and reflects the real pressure which undergraduate engineers experience at Imperial.