On 15th May we presented our 2nd Diamond Engineering Award to student Caroline Nicholls. Some of us had the opportunity to meet with Caroline and chat over supper.
Caroline was welcomed to the meeting and spoke to the group, giving us the following insight into her studies:
She has been studying civil engineering at the University of Bath since September 2016. She was studying maths, physics and chemistry as A level subjects and wanted to continue her studies in a branch of these but not as a pure subject.
In the first semester, Caroline did a lot of work jointly with architecture students, the ethos behind this being that engineering should work for the good of society; collaboration between architects and engineers would therefore enable this. This semester included completing a design project depicting weightlessness and courses in building the environment, the history and theory of vernacular architecture and geology. The department was also involved in the design of accommodation blocks for refugees, which have already been adopted.
The second semester so far has dealt with engineering involving computer applications.
Caroline’s favourite unit has been surveying. In this, she and her group had to come up with a 2D plan of their accommodation block.
