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Recently one of the USA’s largest engineering schools, Texas A&M University, invested in a new engineering education complex that would revolutionise the way they teach their 20,000 engineering students. One element of this new complex was a new model for laboratories that would allow them to fully utilise equipment and space by creating “common labs”,  shared facilities within Zachry Engineering Education Complex completed in 2018. The new building was only part of the story; they invested heavily in new teaching equipment to be housed in this facility, including a vast range of practical engineering teaching products from TecQuipment.

When it came to finding teaching equipment to support a new technical college for nuclear in the Lake District, UK, TecQuipment was called upon.

This blog discusses the importance of role models in encouraging people to go into a career in engineering, the growing trend of project based teaching establishments such as TEDI-London, and the role of the Engineering Education Research Network to improve engineering teaching practice.  

This blog was written by Dionne Knowles, TecQuipment Marketing Manager and Roger Penlington, of UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network. 

20^th November, 2019 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines has today acquired certain assets of Cussons Technology Ltd, including the Intellectual Property specifically associated with the Engineering Educational Division and also certain physical assets such as manufacturing equipment and Educational product stock. The remaining part of Cussons Technology, the Marine Hydrodynamics & Industrial Division, is not included in this asset acquisition.

Dan Stones, Technical Resource Manager from the School of Engineering at the University of Lincoln, explains in this video case study why they use TecQuipment teaching equipment for understanding the principles of mechanics.  From static and dynamic apparatus for hands on learning and demonstration, through to tensile testing on materials including textiles. For more advanced study, the AF1300 wind tunnel is used for post graduate study and research projects where students 3D print aerofoils, utilising the Versatile Data Acquisition System VDAS for detailed analysis.

In the various mechanics labs at Birmingham City University  an extensive amount of TecQuipment teaching products are used for teaching first and foundation years. For some students they are also central to research in third and final year projects.

In October 2019, Nottingham Trent University opened a new engineering teaching and research facility, that houses a wide range of apparatus from TecQuipment for bringing mechanical theory to life . In this video case study, lecturers and laboratory technicians talk about how they use these products to teach engineering principles that relate to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, materials testing, and engineering science and all levels of engineering study at degree level.

Opening the doors to students once more, last week TecQuipment welcomed a group of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Mechanical Engineering students from the University of Derby to experience the real life of engineering.

4th February, 2020 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines has today launched a new fluid mechanics teaching product, the Variable Speed Series and Parallel Pumps Bench-Top Test Set (H53V). This balances the need for a compact teaching product that delivers advanced-level teaching for investigating the operation and performance of a variable speed pump and fixed speed pump that can be used in both series and parallel.

Read this blog post to learn more about the use of carbon fibre plates in running shoes and how science and engineering students might utilise TecQuipment’s engineering teaching products to learn more about material properties such as carbon fibre.

Announcing the Executive Summary of findings from the 2018/2019 global study run by TecQuipment, that looked at the degree of percieved importance of practical teaching elements within engineering courses.

It examined topics including: teaching time, course grading, employability, student motation and barriers to more practical teaching time.

We recently began hosting visitor events at the company’s headquarters in Long Eaton that showcase our teaching equipment for a given range. These are known as the Live events ‘ie Flow Channel Live’ and ‘Aerodynamics Live’. Seizing the opportunity with our latest Aerodynamics Live event for academics, we up-scaled it by 500%. During this week, rather than one event, we hosted a week long marathon of events. We hosted activity for staff, UK academics, a local school and for friends & family of staff – all with tailored content for the audience.

In this blog post we are looking at the influential Persian Polymath Ibn Sina, also known in the West as Avicenna. Among many of his wide works, he defined the relationship between inclination, force and projectile. It was this early thinking from Ibn Sina that later shaped further more in depth theories that developed the understanding of forces.

By Dr Paul Wilkinson, TecQuipment Technical Director

As Covid has raged the engineering education community has been faced with the challenge of providing high quality engineering education whilst protecting students and staff from infection risk. Technology enables many different approaches, all of which come with benefits and drawbacks. Solutions are being used ranging from simple videos of experiments through to simulations, plus equipment that can be controlled by students working remotely. The debate is on-going as to which technologies provide the best overall solution, not only now, but also for the future beyond Covid.

This week sees the launch of World Autism Awareness Week (29/3/21 – 04/04/21). Education Consultant Kate Grailey shares insight into the value of Autistic and other neurodivergent individuals within the workplace and educational institutions.

Today we celebrate the contribution that Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli made to the world of science and engineering, introducing Bernoulli’s principle for understanding fluid mechanics.

Daniel Bernoulli born in the Netherlands 319 years ago studied his passion which was mathematics, and medicine under the guidance of his father Johann Bernoulli who knew all too well from his own experience about the poor pay that the career path would offer.

9^th June, 2021 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines has announced that it has become Employee-Owned. This move secures the longevity of the company and means that customers purchasing their best-in-class laboratory teaching products and software will be supported for many years to come.

Students on the Civil Engineering Study Programme at TIDAR University in Java Indonesia are now benefiting from the installation of a range of new fluid mechanics practical teaching apparatus from TecQuipment for understanding water resources engineering.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay recently opened new engineering laboratories that will give students the real-world skills they need for the workforce. The project is part of a greater vision to draw more students to northeast Wisconsin and meet the region’s demand for engineers.

This blog post is a summary of the study by Varun Thangamani and Foo Ngai Kok of the University of Southampton Malaysia, the joint authors of a recent paper on harnessing energy from cavity flow oscillations (capturing energy from vibrations in fluid flow). Using TecQuipment’s Modular Airflow Bench that is used to teach students to understand air and water flow, Thangamani and Ngai Kok studied the potential to use piezoelectric beams to harvest energy from cavity flow oscillations in small portable devices as a research project.

If you’re pondering how aerodynamic factors can influence cycling performance, then read this blog to learn more about the theory and how students and academics might test these principles for themselves using TecQuipment’s Subsonic Wind Tunnels and Three-Dimensional Drag Models.

In this video lecturer Teddy Kye-Nyarko from Bedford College explains his plans for expanding the teaching capabilities of the college's materials testing lab for the Civil Engineering and Construction Management courses using TecQuipment products.

To mark Eid Al Fitr, we have chosen to pay tribute to one of the most celebrated Muslim scientists, Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, better known as simply Al-Khwarizmi.

In this video lecturer Teddy Kye-Nyarko from Bedford College explains his plans for expanding the teaching capabilities of the college's materials testing lab for the Civil Engineering and Construction Management courses using TecQuipment products.

Today is Dyslexia Engineering Day and in recognition of this we have invited Dyslexia specialist Kate Grailey to share with us an introduction to dyslexia and effective teaching methods for dyslexic students.

What is Educational Equipment?

A question we often get asked is “What is the difference between research and education equipment?” Let’s first look at the definition of research and education.

A key question that we are often asked is; “How accurate is this piece of equipment?”

Whilst this question sounds like it should have a simple answer, in fact it hides a level of complexity that can be quite instructive for the student. We tend to use the word “accuracy” to mean a number of overlapping things, whereas it actually has a very specific meaning in Engineering.

In this short article, I want to explore some of the basic concepts involved in measurement, and what they mean in terms of our equipment.

In supporting endeavours to address the UK engineering shortage TecQuipment is sponsoring endurance motorcycle racing team Scarab Racing, fuelling team passions for motorcycle engineering.

25th January 2018 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines announced a record growth of the company over the last six years with a 52% increase in order intake and 31% growth in employees.

We like a new project here at TecQuipment and we have been working hard to create a cutaway model of our TD200 Engine and Dynomometer for an exhibition in Hannover with Mazak.

In the face of the threat posed by global warming and climate change, Renewable sources of energy that are sustainable and friendly to the environment are being increasingly developed and used to provide an ever-growing proportion of the electrical power used in many countries.

Dr. Blake Stringer, the founding faculty of Kent State University's Aeronautic Engineering programme, gives an overview of our Subsonic Wind Tunnel.

Another hugely successful trip over to the States for the American Society of Engineering Education 2017!

TecQuipment is delighted to announce that it is now registered to the very latest ISO standard for quality, ISO9001:2015

Things don't stop at the ASEE exhibition! Our MD, Simon Woods, has been busy with many of our US Partners this lunch.

It is that time of year again, where the best and brightest in the engineering education field decent on the American Society of Engineering Education exhibition.

We visited Northumbria University for some installation and training for a large project they completed in the end of 2016.

A large investment from The University of Bradford in West Yorkshire, brought us to their laboratories in 2014.

We took a trip out to Fareham College, a higher education campus, just off the South Coast of England.

Our Customer Care team have put together a consumables kit for you, your team and students.

It has been another great event at GESS Dubai with our regional partners Atlab!

TecQuipment have had a fantastic working relationship with the East African School of Aviation. First, their team visited us in the UK, before we went over to Kenya to help with the installation and training of their new subsonic wind tunnels.

2017 is going to be an exciting year for us here at TecQuipment, with a launch of our new branding and extensive selection of new equipment spanning across current and new ranges. Our brand new product guide for 2017 is ‘hot off the press’ and is your first chance to see these new developments.

Dave Giddings, our Installation & Training Manager has been on the road again! He has been out in Bangladesh, at the fantastic facilities of the Bangladesh Military Academy. 

We are looking out for the finest talent to join us!

TecQuipment also develop state-of-the-art software to support and further enhance the experimental capabilities of our equipment. The software can provide custom built data acquisition (VDAS) or offer further virtual experimentation with the Structures range software.

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The Design Engineering department at Polytechnic Manufacturing Bandung on the island of East Java in Indonesia approached TecQuipment for engineering teaching equipment when they wanted apparatus for their laboratory expansion.

On a cold wintery day, a group of over 50 students and supporting academics from the 1^st Year Mechanical Engineering course at Nottingham Trent University joined TecQuipment at the company’s headquarters in Long Eaton, UK. The purpose of this visit was to give them a real taste of engineering. They experienced an action packed morning with a full factory tour, careers presentations and engineering based team building challenges.

After being disillusioned by the poor testing standards of materials that existed at the time, David Kirkaldy’s invented the Universal Testing Machine. We look at the influence that the machine and his testing Works had on engineering of the time.

Today we celebrate the contribution that chemist Robert Boyle, born in 1627, made to science and engineering, particularly with the introduction of Boyle’s Law for understanding the behaviour of gases.

Preparing the next generation of work-ready engineers.

14th March, 2019 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines based in Long Eaton has been awarded Exporter of the Year in the 2019 Midlands Business Awards.

After proving that reindeer can fly using TecQuipment’s wind tunnel in the blog post last week, the students at Milton Keynes College set out to establish if they could fly with a sleigh in tow.

Today we celebrate the contribution that French chemist and physicist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac made to the world of science and engineering.

TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines across the world, is using customised enclosures from Spelsberg UK in its latest sediment transport channel flume for teaching engineering students about fluid mechanics. To deliver suitable enclosures quickly, the products were produced via Spelsberg’s in-house CNC machining service.

Can Santa’s reindeer really fly? A question many have asked sometime in their lives. Read on to find out how Milton Keynes College in the UK, proved it could work scientifically.

The entries from 11 teams of students that entered the Nottingham Trent University Thermofluids Competition sponsored by TecQuipment were judged this week by a panel of senior academics from the university and TecQuipment Marketing Manager Dionne Knowles.

For many years Birzeit University has trusted TecQuipment to be their no.1 provider of engineering laboratory products to aid the teaching of Mechanical, Civil and Environmental Engineering courses. Knowing from personal experience that the equipment is built to last, and that they can rely heavily on local support from TecQuipment agent in Palestine backed up by the dedicated TecQuipment Customer Services team, it was the logical choice to choose TecQuipment once again for their new lab equipment.

Learn more about what inspires young women to pursue a career in engineering today and what it’s like to be a female engineer in this blog post, featuring established TecQuipment engineer Bridget Whitehouse and aspiring young engineer Molly Ferneyhough.

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A new Hydraulic Bench Upgrade Kit that electronically measures flow rates was recently purchased by Nottingham Trent University. It delivered a 15%-30% time saving when carrying out experiments.

On 5^th June, TecQuipment was awarded winner of the Sales & Marketing category in the Derby Telegraph Business Awards, involving participants from leading companies across the county of Derbyshire.

Repeatability and longevity are just a couple of the reasons why the University of Regina keeps returning to TecQuipment for engineering teaching equipment. This University in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been purchasing TecQuipment teaching products from the company since the late 1960s.

On this day in 1803, french engineer Henry Darcy, responsible for Darcy’s Law for flow in porous media, was born. Read on to learn more about his life and Darcy’s Law relating to ground water flow.

Today we celebrate the contribution that Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer Leonhard Euler made to the world of science and engineering.  

1^st Year Mechanical Engineering students at Nottingham Trent University have been set a new challenge in their Thermofluids module to help them prepare for the real world of work at the end of their degree. The students are required to design a new experiment using one of TecQuipment’s fluid mechanics products to investigate a fluid phenomenon of their choosing.

17th October, 2018 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines based in Long Eaton has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Exporter of the Year category of the Midlands Business Awards 2019, following the record levels of success in business growth over the last 12 months.

Today we celebrate the contribution that Thomas Young made to the field of engineering, born exactly 245 years ago in 1773 (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829).

In this blog post, Dr Ben Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham Trent University looks at the changes in engineering education over the last 20 years, and the importance of a greater emphasis on bringing theory into practice through a practical based learning approaches.

The electronic and aeronautical test facility at Milton Keynes College, UK recently purchased an AF1300 Subsonic Wind Tunnel for the teaching of the Level 3 Aeronautical Engineering BTEC Diploma students, which is used on a regular basis as part of the course.

Robert Hooke a Renaissance man, jack-of-all-trades and master of many; was the discoverer of the law of elasticity known as "Hooke's Law".

19^th April 2018 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines has appointed DevinSense as the sole sales agent for TecQuipment products in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

Flumes, TecQuipment Family, Refrigeration, Quality, Perfect Gases, Magic, Unsteady State, Music, Football, Wind Tunnel, Awards, New Trends, Darth Vader – the 2018 global agent conference in a nutshell!

Christian Otto Mohr, born on this day in 1835 was a German civil engineer that studied at Hanover Polytechnic School, responsible for formalising the notion of a statically indeterminate structure and the circle of stress also known as Mohr’s Circle.

Solihull College Uses TecQuipment Products for Teaching Aerospace Engineering and Maintenance Degree Students

7^th August 2018 – Nottingham, UK – TecQuipment, leading provider of high quality educational equipment for engineering disciplines has announced the winners of its 2018 Agent Awards revealed at the company’s Global Agent Conference last month. ATLAB part of the Centena Group from the Middle East won both the Best Agent Award and Best Technical Support Award. Tsingso Tech from China won the Rising Star Award that recognises the company with the fastest growth.