Hello I'm Yangyi a final year student studying electrical and electronic
engineering at the University of Birmingham so in this video I will show you how Design Week
for engineering students looks like. Because this is a special week which is this is
one week and that means we don't have any tutorials or lectures in this week because we
need to focus on our IDP three module. Basically it's an interdisciplinary design
project so every team consists of mechanical students, electrical students
and civil engineering students and to finish projects together and our team is
going to design a vehicle recycling plant and for our electrical group our
responsibility is to design the control system for special robotic arms and machine
in this plant and in this week because we don't have an lectures so we can meet
with our team to refine our final design and to finish our PowerPoint
presentation so let's have a look at what the design week looks like.
On Monday my group mates and I decided to hold a group meeting in the study room in the Harding
Building and it's the first time I went to that building - it is near the Law Building
[group mumbled talking]
Now we have finished our group discussion I'm going to meet one mechanical pupil
to sort out some details of
what their groups doing so I'm going to the design centre so
this is the mechanical engineering building but it's now the
Engineering Building.
After finishing the whole day of meetings me and my friends come to a study space
to study for our final year project and so it's a really busy day.
Soon after we decided to go home to have dinner.
Tuesday our school went to AutoDesk for a visitor tour.
In the presentation he gave us a short introduction of what AutoDesk is doing
and what work is happening here after the presentation other staff show us
around the company and introduce some robot arms and machines and how they work.
After the visit the coach brings us back to campus and me and my friends decided
to go to Selly Oak to have some food.
Wednesday is a sunny day and today we are going to have a meeting at Gisbert
Kapp which is where the electrical engineering department is located in and after the
meeting we are going to meet our supervisor to have a final discussion of
our transportation because it's the last day before presentation.
This meeting is at The Link which is on the first floor of Gisbert Kapp - this is a study space.
We really like to study here when we don't have any lectures.
[mumbled talking from the group]
Finally on Thursday is is our presentation day
and all of our team members from mechanical engineering
civil engineering and electrical engineering all gather in the same lecture
room to give the presentation.