12 May 2015
Reminder: Loughborough hosts Royal Academy of Engineering public lecture
Professor Helen Atkinson CBE FREng, a Trustee Board member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, will visit Loughborough University tomorrow (Wednesday 13 May) to discuss the connection between cornflour, ketchup and car parts!
She will give a public lecture to explain how unusual properties like those of cornflour and ketchup can be exploited using metal alloys in a process called thixoforming to make parts for cars and cases for mobile phones.
Professor Atkinson was made CBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2014 for her services to Engineering and Education. In 2011 she was elected as the first woman president of the Engineering’ Professors Council in its 50-year history.
The lecture will be held in the Wolfson lecture theatre at 6pm. No registration is required.