Technical visits

Acre Rd Fluid Dynamics Testing Facilities - a technical tour of the Aerospace Division's fluid dynamics experimental facilities, covering subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flow regimes, along with vacuum chamber capabilities. Participants will visit the large, subsonic, industrial scale de Havilland wind tunnel, new supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnels, and the European Space Agency plume-regolith interaction vacuum chamber facility and hear about the exciting research taking place using state-of-the-art measurement techniques.

When: Friday 7^th September (starting from 10:00am – groups of 8 people)

JWNC - The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre @ Glasgow houses over £32M of nanofabrication tools in a 1350 m² clean room run as a pseudo-industrial operation by 22 technicians & a research technologist & managed by an Executive which includes a Director, Operations Director, Business Manager & Chief Technologist. The Centre undertakes fundamental, applied and commercial research, development and small production delivered using a vast array of developed process modules and background IP which can provide integrated processes to deliver components, devices, circuits, systems and solutions.

When: Friday 7^th September (starting from 10:00am – groups of 5 people – 3 groups in total)

The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is a globally-recognised centre of excellence in innovative manufacturing technologies, engineering research and development, and metal forming and forging research. For almost a decade the centre has been at the heart of manufacturing research in Scotland.  It is the only High Value Manufacturing Catapult centre in the country, one of only 7 in the UK making it the critical link between manufacturers in Scotland and the rest of this world-class network of manufacturing innovation and expertise.

When: Friday 7^th September (starting from 10:00am – up to 15 participants in total)