Spotlight: Illuminating Engineering

Revealing the ground-breaking research that is helping to improve our lives and expand our horizons

If you think engineering is all about building bridges and skyscrapers, this show is for you! If you want to know how engineers are helping to tackle climate change and fight infections, this show is for you! If you want to learn how engineering can help us explore space… you get the picture!

Hear from some of Oxford’s most innovative and enthusiastic engineers how advances are being made in… how we could treat depression with ultrasound…. how pancake mix could help develop body armour … how understanding the UK’s future energy requirements could lower everyone’s costs … and how robots can be useful members of the manufacturing workforce!

After five short illuminating TEDx style talks, you’ll be ready to astound your friends and family with the answers to these fascinating conundrums:

• How can robots teach themselves to build?
• Why we need a new generation of solid-state batteries and what’s holding us back?
• How can pancake mix help us design body armour?
• Why energy prices are going up and what can we do about it?
• Can we change brain activity without surgery or drugs?

Duration: 2 hours, with an interval