#faraday #university Portsmouth University’s Faculty of Technology recently hosted a Faraday Challenge Day for local schools, where the students were asked to design and build prototype communications devices for rescue teams in remote locations. The event was part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Faraday education programme, which includes 55 Challenge Days across the UK.
The Challenge Days aim to encourage more young people to study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects and to use their problem-solving skills. Each event involves teams of six 12- to 13-year-old pupils studying science, design technology or maths.
A spokesman said: “Teams are given a secret engineering conundrum, which sees them race against the clock to solve a real-life engineering problem, putting their STEM knowledge and skills to the test.”
IET president Andy Hopper added: “The Faraday programme is all about inspiring and attracting tomorrow’s engineers. Engineering is often an invisible industry among young people, who sometimes have preconceived ideas about what engineers look like, the jobs they do and what they can earn. The students attending the Challenge Days experience hands-on, practical events to challenge their perceptions and make them realise that engineering is an exciting, rewarding career path.”
The IET is Europe’s largest professional body of engineers, with over 150,000 members in 127 countries.