These activities have been developed for the National HE STEM Programme to be used in conjunction with the video resources found in this collection.

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This resource looks at how biomimicry enables engineers to take ideas from the natural world to develop new products and designs. The specific example of gecko tape is used to illustrate this. Students play a game of pairs where they need to match technology with the animal or plant which inspired its development....

Body centric communications is any communication on, within or around the body using wireless technology. In this film, engineers give examples of the applications of this technology, including wireless devices which monitor blood glucose and communicate directly with a device which can administer insulin. This...

Andrew Robertson is a computer engineer working at Queen Mary, University of London on music signal processing. 

This video shows Angelo Grubisic, an aerospace engineer who combines his love of wingsuit BASE jumping with his engineering knowledge to develop the world's most scientifically engineered wingsuit.

This video tells the story of Sol and Ben Ryan. Sol had to have his arm amputated after he was born. When his father...

Engineer Matt Holloway and his team have designed and built a robot designed to get into small spaces that can insulate your home. A robot...

Sam Fraser is a mechanical engineer working for his PhD at Loughborough...

In this video Alice...

It took just one day at a race-track for Nina Parsons to know that she wanted to be an engineer. Five years later, she’s heading for a career in Formula One. 

The video  provides an interview with Faye Banks. Faye Banks is the north-east electrical transmission and asset manager for National Grid.  

While studying in his final year at the Kings School Canterbury, George Edwards has taken what started out as a AS-level project and taken it...