All Hands on DEC - May 2008
- Countdown to FoDI
- Land Rover Design visit DEC
- BU Scoop Bronze at HEIST Awards
- E-zines aim to boost PG recruitment
- Anglepoise return to DEC
- Smart Technology at CHI '08
- Subject Insight Days
- How to submit future stories
- Next Newsletter
Countdown to FoDI
The excitement is building as there are just a few weeks to go before the Festival of Design & Innovation 2008.
The website is live, the invitations have been sent out, and the students are busy working on their projects in preparation for the opening night on the 26 June.
The opening night alumni speech will be from Philip Robinson, Product Design graduate. Professor Geoff Kirk, President of the Institute of Engineering Designers will be performing the key note speech. We look forward to welcoming Professor Kirk, who has a career spanning over 40 years, more than 30 of which have been spent as Chief Civil Aerospace Engineer at Rolls-Royce.
If you have not visited the Festival website already take a look at www.festival.bournemouth.ac.uk todate we have exceeded 2500 visits to the site! While you are there don't forget to register your attendance if you would like to come along to the Festival and view the work of our talented design students.
Land Rover Design visit DEC
On May 7 Sandy Boyes from Land Rover Advanced Design visited DEC to discuss research possibilities and also presented a talk to an audience of design staff and Product Design students about design at Land Rover and the LRX concept car. Sandy has a large amount of experience of working in car design; previously he has worked at Honda Europe, Jaguar Design and Jaguar Advanced Design.
During the informative talk, Sandy talked through aspects of Land Rover design including Land Rover's design heritage and the design DNA of the Land Rover product range before moving on to talk about the LRX concept car. Sandy explained the design process of producing the LRX including clay modelling and its interior design.
Sandy was on hand after the presentation to answer individual questions from the students and advise them on their own design projects.
BU Scoop Bronze at HEIST Awards
At this year's HEIST Awards the International & Corporate Relations team scooped a bronze award for the Undergraduate prospectus. HEIST is one of the leading providers of Marketing and Communications to UK Universities. The award is great recognition for all the hard work that goes into producing the prospectus and backs up excellent feedback that we have received from potential students.
E-zines aim to boost PG recruitment
In an attempt to boost postgraduate enrolments this autumn, the Marketing Team has produced PG E-zines for each postgraduate course. These email newsletters has been sent to all postgraduate applicants and are course-specific. The aim of this campaign is to maintain contact with applicants before the start of term, make them feel welcome and encourage them to take up their place on the course which they have applied for.
These informative newsletters include a welcome from Professor John Vinney, a note from their Programme Leader as well as links through to the Festival of Design & Innovation site, and DEC news pages. To view an example of the PG E-zines please click here .
Anglepoise return to DEC
Five weeks ago, Year 1 and Year 2 Product Design students were set a brief by Anglepoise to design an eco-lamp. On Friday 16th May, the students presented their design ideas to a judging panel made up of DEC design staff, Simon Terry, Managing Director of Anglepoise and Lucy Hare, Project Manager at Anglepoise.
Smart Technology at CHI '08
Linda Hole and Oliver Williams from the Smart Technology Research Centre presented a workshop paper at the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008) in Florence at the beginning of April. The workshop (User Experience Evaluation Methods in Product Development) examined how to provide tools to support developers wishing to design products which provide engaging user experiences.
Subject Insight Days
The Education Liaison Team are working closely with colleagues in DEC to organise a series of recruitment events called 'Subject Insight Days' over the coming months.
These events are designed to allow students and teachers from our target schools and colleges to experience some of BU's subjects, first hand. This year is the first time we've run events like this so we thought you might like to find out how well received these have been to date. Having had success with Subject Insight Days in Health and Social Care and Tourism so far, we are looking forward to the following events which will involve DEC:
June 27th
FoDI Schools and Colleges Day - With over 135 Year 11 and 12 students from 7 different institutions attending, this event is on track to be a great success. This is the first time the Education Liaison team has looked after this particular event, which Aimhigher have hosted in previous years. This year sees a more obvious recruitment drive with activities on the day including academic talks, campus tours and of course time to explore the festival itself.
July 10th
Computing Subject Insight Day - We intend to welcome 96 students to Talbot Campus for this event, to explore the new Computing framework and to experience some of the vital interactive elements of our Computing courses at BU.
Sept 25th
Creative Technology Subject Insight Day - This event will be showcasing courses like Computer Animation and Visualisation, Music and Audio Technology and Interactive Media Production, aiming to provide students with an insight into the range of course options available to them within this diverse subject area. Invites are set to go out following a Teacher Update Day in Creative Technology on 10th June.
June 10th
Teacher Update Day
- We will be welcoming 15 teachers to BU for the Teacher Update Day in June and they will enjoy a programme of seminars led by academic colleagues, the intention being that they pass on positive feedback to their students.
How to submit future stories
If you have a story you would like included in the next issue of "all hands on DEC" please send it to Emma Bennett . Each month the next deadline will be found at the bottom of the newsletter and a document can be found in the 'I drive' (I:\DEC\Private\Marketing\All Hands on DEC) with all copy/story deadlines for the rest of the year.
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