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hi my name’s Joe, and
I’m a second year Construction Management student
I chose my course mainly because of accreditation,
which’s by the ICE, which’s the institute of engineers and
the Chattered Institute of Building, which’s unique to
this course at Kingston. It’s the only
construction management course, which’s double accredited
it’s a very civil engineeringy based
construction management course. So we do a lot of lab work
we write a lot of reports, we d a lot of group work, and
so we look at technical side of things as well as
the management and kinda logistical side of things as well.
The thing I enjoy most about my course is the technical
aspect of it that we do, we look at structures, we look at
geo-techniques, which you wouldn’t get in other
construction management courses. So it gives us as
potential managers, it gives us far more rounded view of
the industry and what happens onsite, as well as all
the group work we do. We do a lot of, sort of group projects
design projects, and they’re really fun as well as 2
or 3 field tripsthrough out the course of the whole 3 years.
We go to Lake District, we go to Brighton on
Surveying field trips, so yeah, its really enjoyable.
There’s a various methods of assessment on our course
we’ve got a lot of group design projects, we do reports,
essays, as well as some exams as well, so its good to have
that mixture of assessment methods, because it kinda gets
the best out of you really, in all the sort of
areas that we look at.
Hello, my name’s Cecil Vengi, I’m a final year
Mng student at Kingston University on
the Aerospace Engineering course
I’m Mandiful, I’m with Cecil on the final year of
the Masters programme in aerospace engineering.
The reason I chose aerospace engineering is because,
I like maths and physics, and after looking through all
the courses on offer, I thought this was the best one
to my interest. and I enjoy aeroplanes as well, and
I love aerodynamics and looking at flow, so that’s why
I chose Kingston, because it’s a good University,
with good reputation for teaching.
Well I’ve enjoyed about everything, we’ve learned about
different types of materials that they use, the propulsion systems
like how a gas turbine works, it’s more complicated
than I thought. The aerodynamics, basically how
the shape affects the flow of everything
is all pretty interesting in my opinion.
We do 8 modules during each year for 4 years, and
the final year, the dissertation and the group project
is double module, which are purely coursework assessed
And the support we get from the technicians is quite a lot actually
Cliff, who’s in charge of the wind tunnel, is very supportive
he’s always offering ideas, if we have any problems
with problem solving, and the teachers themselves, they’re
always ready on hand to give us advice, or extra tutorials
for problem solving for maths or any other such as problems
Yeah, I would add it’s probably not just Cliff
all the technicians are really helpful and when you need
something done and you’re not sure about it
It’s easy to approach them, and ask them for help
But if you’re interested in engineering, then definitely
come to Kingston, it’s a quite place to learn and a lot of
help is available if you have any difficult issues like
problem solving or if you’re not sure of your maths
and it’s a great place really. We’ve been here 4 years
and really enoyed it, time’s gone by.
My name’s Owen Gilbert,
I’m doing a second year engineering student
specifically doing Motorcycle Engineering design.
Mainly I picked the course because I have passion for
motorcycles, and for engineering. The course offered
probably the best package all round, out of the main
Universities that offer motorcycle engineering design.
The technicians, when they support us on the course
they give us everything we need. If you need to
choose equipment, or be taught to use equipments
they’re always there to help and advice
When we’re assessed mainly on the theory, it’s all exams
and coursework with 2 dissertations in the second year
and another 2 in third year, as well as
the final presentation on what you found, and
what you researched. The practical side like this,
we’re mainly assessed on our performance on how it runs
if it runs and how well and how quickly you solved the problem
But what we’re doing specifically here is taking one of
the university’s bikes, they provide us with to go racing
we race with thunder sport GP in the national minitwins class
But the University provides us with everything,
the equipment, the funding, the transport, bike, tools the lot
The racing is a great way for the students to get
more practical work in and it also teaches us so much more
than you can always get in the classroom, the theory can
only go so far, but we can always underpin it by doing
practical studies like this. I’d advice picking the
engineering course, because the facilities here are second
to none and there’re so many different projects to get
involved in as well, there’s loads, there’s always
something going on in the lab.