Engineering You’re Hired

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The first prize-winning team are pictured top left to right, Ellie Moorton (MEng Bioengineering), Anish Partab (BEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering); bottom left to right Guohui Hou (BEng Electronics and Computer Engineering), Eden Husein (BSc AI and Computer Science) and Ollie Wood  (MComp Computer Science [Artificial Intelligence[) – the team was awarded a £1,500 Engineers in business prize for the ShoalTracker and the AquaHub.

The ShoalTracker and the AquaHub is a revolutionary sustainable AUV solution to tackle the ever-growing, underfunded, and life-threatening problem of overfishing and provide critical navigational data to legally-operating fishing businesses.

By 2030, utilising state-of-the-art nautical AUV technology courtesy of ecoSUB Robotics Ltd., the ShoalTracker will navigate up to 500m below surface level, and split-beam sonar to detect fish and other living organisms from up to 1,000 feet, to scan for and locate shoals of fish.

Using sustainable and renewable solar energy for recharging, the ShoalTracker and AquaHub Team are an unstoppable force against overfishing and the food crisis.

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The B.O.P.P Band team was awarded a £1,000 Engineers in Business Prize. Pictured left to right are Abdul Aziz Alkatheeri (BEng Mechanical Engineering), Chloe Creak (BSc Computer Science with Year in Industry), bottom left to right, Benjamin Jones (BEng Bioengineering) and Eleanor Higgs (BSc Computer Science).

The B.O.P.P Band offers remote healthcare, particularly focusing on remote care for people working in extreme jobs such as mining, firefighting or nuclear waste. The student innovators focused on firefighters because they are integral to protecting our community and are at high risk of illnesses such as heart disease. To combat this, the team created the B.O.P.P Band – a blood oxygen, pressure, and pulse band. The band can be sewn into the gloves of firefighters and records blood pressure, blood oxygen and pulse.

This data is fed through AI software so it can be analysed and detect signs of heart disease or other cardiovascular issues. This method of early detection can save lives and reduce pressure on the NHS. The earlier a problem is caught, the better it can be treated.

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The Purifye team was awarded £500 Engineers in Business Prize.  Pictured top down are James Barras (BEng Chemical Engineering with Industrial Experience), Amarrudin Hasbollah (BSc Computer Science), Lorna Sibson (MEng General Engineering with Year in Industry) and Chalisa Pusitdhikul (MEng ChemEng with Year in Industry).

The current textile industry has a massive problem of treating dye wastewater efficiently. By using the fungus, Aspergillus niger, the team has designed an innovative, efficient and sustainable system to treat the dye wastewater called Purifye 1. This technology treats the wastewater in a continuously packed column of immobilised Aspergillus niger to decolourise the dyed water by secreting enzymes.

The team identified a textile factory in northern Morocco with a wastewater discharge of 400 m3/day from various processes including dyeing where its design could first be implemented. Purifye 1 can safely recycle 75% of the wastewater per day, saving up to £93,000 worth of water per annum.