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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 understanding flooding…. how hydrogen might help flight in the future … how LED lights might improve internet access…. and what your heart can reveal about your general health!

After six short illuminating TEDx style talks, you’ll be ready to astound your friends and family with the answers to these fascinating conundrums:
- Can LED lights improve your internet access?
- Explosive tech - how safe are the batteries in your devices?
- Flying into the Future: Can Hydrogen Get Us There?
- Is flooding the new norm?
- Reading the Heart’s Signature: What Heartbeats Reveal About Health
- How does cooling aircraft engines help meet net-zero targets?

Age: 14+
event dateFriday 15 May
venue addressQueens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre Queens Park Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP21 7RT
event timesTime: 7 – 9pm

Tickets: £5
telephone 01296 424332 for latest times or cancellations.
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