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Engineering for Life - From Cradle to Grave

How can engineering let us see inside ourselves, improve sporting performancexe4l_med

and give someone extra independence?

This exciting presentation, with lots of demonstrations and audience interaction, reveals how engineering improves our quality of life from before we’re born!

Watch a live ultrasound scan, discover how engineers can make playgrounds safer, how a jellyfish could contain the cure for cancer and even how we can preserve our bodies after death!

This show is suitable for Key Stage 3 and 4 groups, and adult audiences.

Curriculum Links: Key stage 3

• Cells can form tissues, and tissues can form organs

• that energy is transferred from batteries and other sources to other components in electrical circuits

• about magnetic fields as regions of space where magnetic materials experience forces

• electromagnets

• ways in which frictional forces affect motion

• the quantitative relationship between force, area and pressure

• behaviour of sound waves

Curriculum Links: Key stage 4

• the structure of the human circulatory system

• how the kidneys remove waste products

• the defense mechanisms of the body

• new substances form when atoms combine

• the difference between dc and ac current

• the reflection, refraction and diffraction of waves

• uses of x-rays and gamma rays in medicine

• about sound and ultrasound waves, and some medical uses of ultrasound

Duration

45 - 50 minutes

Requirements

• Power sockets

• Projector screen

• Two long tables

• Room that can be darkened