I need to find a major engineering project to review (sucessful or unsucessful) for an assignment at uni. It needs to have a lot of publically available info on it for research and analysis pursposes.

Faced with such a wide range I dont know what to choose. Anyone got any bright ideas?

Cheers,
David

What about the new Wembley Stadium, although it may not be complete for a few more years yet.........

Phil

JCB Landspeed record vehicle? Ricardo are local to you and they did the engine development. MIRA for Aero also close and if you look on the mira website you'll find out who gave a presentation on it at Autosport - Don't know if it was him or someone on this forum that actually did it tho.

New airport in HK? I know someone on here helped work on it.

errm, MG Rover (depending on how you define engineering project).

Got to be the Millau Viaduct IMO

Mars Rover? That was a total cock up!

Hello mate what type of engineering are you doing? As a mech eng student in Cardiff, the lecturers are pretty keen on the space shuttle disaster, or if you are more interested in civil, the tapei dam crops up a lot as a case study. Hope this helps!

I'd have said HK airport too - awesome acheivement.

Donkeymatt - how is the old uni? I miss it!

Thanks for the ideas gents. The JCB one seems to be the favourite at the moment.

I am not so keen on the civil engineering projects, but the Millau viaduct was one of my initial considerations.

I am doing manufacturing engineering. But basically my interest lies with automotive. Its quite tricky to find the sort of specific info we are looking for on some types of projects though as they are quite secretive about what details are divulged to the general public!

Veyron!

Or just it's engine/drivetrain. That's got to be the hardest auto thing to hit the road recently.
Or, try the Toyota Prius. Show what a total waste of effort it is, and why it's poo.

What about the Apollo space program (i.e. landing on the moon)? Probably the best engineering achievment of all time. Loads of pioneering engineering, risky objectives, and spinoff technology entering the medical/consumer/etc industries. Tons of information about it on the net too if you're interested...

Liam

How dare you, Prius is wonderful achievement .........

just failed to meet (in my non technical, personal opinion) its objectives of being a green car.


Apollo - can't cover that one, we all know little green men helped them.

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Originally posted by Liam
What about the Apollo space program (i.e. landing on the moon)? Probably the best engineering achievment of all time. Liam

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thrust ssc.

my new class 7 grasser????

I'd go with the JCB as well, really interesting project, in that it was done from the outset knowing that it was a flawed way to break the record, but a great marketing stunt to launch their own engine to market.

A real,"daft idea that we managed to justify" jobbie, and all the better for that, as each "great idea" of the past soon becomes folly anyway.

Lovely piece of engineering too, having had a good mooch over it at the show.